News
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Nick Machin and Angus Roberts have been named as winners of the 2017 Toro Student Greenkeeper of the Year Awards.
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The men’s and women’s Scottish Opens, both held at Dundonald Links in North Ayrshire this July, led to significant benefits for the local economy.
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A professional golfer has quit the Ladies European Tour (LET) citing concerns about gender pay gap issues and instead will study business at university.
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A proposal to change the way organisations in Scotland pay business rates could have a major impact on the golf industry.
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England’s total domination of the number of people per country in Europe who play golf is under threat for the first time since records began.
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Roxburghe Hotel and Golf Course in the Scottish Borders is back on the market after its sale to a leisure group fell through.
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New research on how much of the UK’s land is taken up by golf courses has found that more than a tenth of the Surrey town of Woking is devoted to the sport.
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Five teams of golfers have failed in their bid to become the world record holder for the fastest golf hole ever played.
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A registered charity is calling on more people to help blind golfers – especially by volunteering to be their guides – and for sponsors of major events.
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Four English counties have been selected to work on a project over the next two years to get more juniors involved in golf.
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One of the oldest golf courses in the world will be renamed as part of a clever marketing drive.
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The daughter of the former European Ryder Cup captain, Bernard Gallacher, Laura, has married the comedian and activist Russell Brand.
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The powerful British Golf Industry Association (BGIA) has called on every golf association in the UK to adopt The R&A’s programme ‘Ready Golf’, in a bid to tackle slow play.
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The executive chair of the British Golf Industry Association (BGIA), Philip Morley, has agreed to write a semi-regular column for The Golf Business.
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A multi-million project to remove a UK wall that was built to stop British forces invading could have a devastating effect on a nearby golf club.
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A Spanish golf club has become the latest in Europe to open up an on-site vineyard.
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It’s official, golf is good for you: A major study has found that people who play the game regularly are 30 per cent less likely to experience coronary heart disease than those who don’t.
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A 100-year-old man who plays golf twice a week has been profiled on ITV News – and he says the game has prolonged his life.
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A number of golf clubs have been trialing ‘SpeedGolf’ – where golfers run between holes as scores are calculated by the number of shots and the time taken to complete the round.
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A golf club in Staffordshire has become the 100th in England to achieve ‘GolfMark’ status – which means it has passed criteria for how welcoming it is to beginners and juniors.
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A project that promotes golf tourism to Italy has said the country’s golf clubs have seen a stunning 25 per cent rise in green fee income from foreigners in just the last two years.
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A group of travellers have issued a £500 ransom demand to a Yorkshire golf club after parking their caravans in its car park.
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Visitors can now register to attend the turf management event SALTEX 2017 for free.
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The latest research on golf participation in the UK has found that more people played the game in April, May and June this year than in 2016.
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Three-time Open winner Sir Henry Cotton has become the first golfer in history to have a ‘blue plaque’ installed in a home he lived in.
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A greenkeeper at a Southampton golf course is in hospital with life-threatening injuries after a 40 foot tree fell on him during high winds.
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Arguably the world’s most famous golf commentator, Peter Alliss, has been given honorary membership of The Blairgowrie Golf Club in Scotland, which he designed one of the courses of.
