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A new survey on the spending behaviour of members of British golf clubs has found that golfers are prepared to spend more on memberships and green fees in 2012 than in 2011, but less on equipment.
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Forthcoming legislation that would have prevented golf clubs providing discounts for senior members has been shelved.
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A golf club has been awarded £50,000 by Sport England‘s 2012 Olympics Legacy Fund to build a new academy course.
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Marie Curie Cancer Care is targeting golf clubs in a bid to raise money.
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One of the world’s most spectacular golf clubs has been placed into administration.
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The manager of Lincoln Golf Club has warned that golf clubs will die unless they start offering flexible membership packages to their customers.
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A controversial £100 million golf resort one mile from the World Heritage Site of the Giant’s Causeway is to be built.
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The technical manager of an agri-business has warned that golf courses will be first in the firing line if water restrictions are imposed on consumers this year.
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Chipping Norton Golf Club in Oxfordshire has applied for planning permission to build a new golf course and driving range, which will be shaped using inert landfill.
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England Golf has made the unprecedented step of appointing two presidents – one male and one female – to lead the organisation.
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A municipal golf club that is set to be closed down by its local council has become the subject of a social media campaign that aims to save it.
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Former Ryder Cup star Paul McGinley has set himself up as competition to airlines such as Ryanair and Air Berlin, which have both recently raised charges for golfers who carry equipment with them.
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A man has died after trying to save his dog from a freezing pond at Wildwood Golf & Country Club in Surrey.
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A burnt corpse found by a greenkeeper at Denham Golf Club was that of a schizophrenic man who had previously stabbed his mother to death before beheading her.
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The hotel on the world’s most famous golf course has lodged a formal objection to a planning application by St Andrews University to build six wind turbines in the area.
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Golf clubs in the UK and Ireland suffered a net loss of 42,700 members in 2011, according to a new survey.
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The manager of a prestigious golf club has criticised England Golf’s inactive handicap system as being potentially damaging to the business of golf clubs.
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Lincoln Golf Centre is dealing with a media storm after The Sun newspaper reported that it has featured in several pictures on a casual sex website.
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Prominent members of the golf industry are backing a campaign to support a 65-year-old man facing extradition to the US for exporting batteries to Iran.
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A survey of UK golf club members has found that just 11 per cent believe relaxing a dress code at their clubhouse would detrimentally affect bar and restaurant revenues.
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The golf course that Lee Westwood grew up playing on has been damaged by vandals to such an extent that its manager fears for its future as a viable business.
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A golf club in Mansfield has written to its local council to oppose the building of a major new golf venue in the area.
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A municipal golf club that closed down in early 2011 is set to re-open in the next few weeks following interest in the site and anger from local residents that the venue is a magnet for crime.
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Jonathan Wall, an assistant greenkeeper at the Royal Hong Kong Golf Club, has won Myerscough College’s best student award.
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An expelled member of Dullatur Golf Club in Scotland has been reinstated by one of the most senior judges in the country.
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Ardglass Golf Club has been named as Ireland’s ‘Links Golf Course of the Year 2011’ following a 20 per cent increase in business.
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Loch Lomond Golf Club in Scotland has won the ‘Overall Achievement Award’ at the STRI’s Golf Environment Awards 2011.
