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Derek Kingsbury, St Enodoc Golf Club’s longstanding member, marked his 100th birthday with a golf day on the Holywell Course, joined by 70 players, six-year-old member Louis Westlake, and a 100-guest clubhouse party with dancing to The Gershwin Gang.

HowDidiDo and intelligentgolf have partnered with Pin Vision to combine scoring and competition management with live GPS, course mapping and pace-of-play tools, giving golfers and clubs a single, joined-up digital platform.

Forest Hill Golf Club, a 140-acre course in Leicestershire’s National Forest, has entered administration. FRP Advisory will bring the 600-member club to market for sale, while it remains fully operational and open to new members in the meantime.

Hart Common Golf Club will install a height barrier after roughly a dozen caravans occupied the course for two days, damaging greens and forcing closure.

A former world champion boxer has called on a Nottinghamshire council to not close down a 120-year-old golf club in order to build hundreds of new homes.

Toptracer will trace every shot of The 154th Open’s global broadcast, offer fans live QR-code shot data on-site and power 20+ simulators across Royal Birkdale – including a new Global Challenge giving fans worldwide the chance to win tickets to The 155th Open at St Andrews.

Foremost Golf has become the Melanoma Fund’s official partner for golf, launching a UK-wide initiative to promote sun safety through education, CPD-accredited training and the Slip! Slap! Swing! campaign, helping protect golfers and PGA professionals from UV exposure.

TGI Golf Partnership has strengthened its retail support offering with the appointment of experienced industry professional Iain Wright to its Retail Consultancy team.

Toptracer has announced that Royal Birkdale, host venue of The 154th Open, is now available to play on virtual golf at Toptracer-powered facilities around the world.

A study testing four UK golf operators across AI platforms found the same club can rank strongly on one and vanish entirely on another – with operators having no visibility into how AI assistants are describing or recommending their venues to prospective golfers.

Matfen Hall opens its new 18-hole championship course, The Douglas.

The number of golf rounds played per course across Great Britain saw a large year-on-year decline in the opening quarter of 2026 according to new data, but it was still up on 2024 and participation levels are very strong at the moment.

The Professional Golfers’ Association of Great Britain & Ireland has appointed Nicholas Oakley as its next chief executive.

La Grande Mare in Guernsey has said it will open its redesigned 18-hole pay-and-play course in August, with greens built to the same specification as Adare Manor and green fees of £200 per round.

Duddingston Golf Club in the Lothians has appointed David MacMullen as its new head professional, and he will work alongside assistant professional Katie Graham.

Newark Golf Club celebrated its 125th anniversary with the Handigolf National Championship, school coaching sessions for more than 30 children and a first visit to the course from the local mayor – all played out in torrential rain.

The Golf Course Association Europe (GCAE) has appointed former Burhill Group CEO Colin Mayes as president for a two-year term.

Essex venue Golf Kingdom, which was acquired by Blackedge Golf and British Ensign Golf less than a year ago, has relaunched under the new name Whalebone Golf Club – positioning itself as a barrier-free, community-led club where dress codes and gatekeeping have no place.

In Great Britain and Ireland, membership of golf clubs dropped to a low of just over a million in 2019. That figure now stands at 1.35 million – the highest it’s been since 2010, according to new R&A figures.

Two golfing friends have both hit a hole-in-one on the same hole while playing together at Royal Liverpool Golf Club.

One of the oldest golf clubs in England is to have its clubhouse demolished and housing will be built where it currently resides.  

The Belfry has unveiled a dramatic redesign of its Derby golf course, transforming it into a heathland layout with 60 new white sand bunkers, raised tees and three signature holes – completing a trio of distinct experiences alongside the Brabazon and PGA National.

A record number of Scottish golf clubs have enrolled in Scottish Golf’s 2026 junior programmes, with GolfSixes participation rising to 169 clubs and new funding streams supporting women’s and girls’ activity across the country.

Tom Mead and Ben Hall claimed the Professionals’ and Assistant Professionals’ Championship titles respectively as Foremost Golf’s annual Championship Week delivered competition, networking and more than £4,000 raised for charity.

A neuroscientist says new research shows the abdominal muscle movements involved in swinging a golf club drive cerebrospinal fluid flow in the brain, which, mixed with walking, could potentially protect against dementia.

A new survey has found that the modern golf traveller is increasingly choosing destinations on the strength of their wider lifestyle offering – with food, wellness and cultural experiences now rivalling course quality as key booking drivers.

The TGI Golf partnership has launched the TGI Golf app, giving partners access to a wide range of business tools and insight while on the move.