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A golf operator has bought its third golf club in 18 months as its chief executive states it is on an ‘acquisition strategy’.
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Members of one of the world’s most famous golf clubs have been told they could be expelled from their club if they publicly criticise it or its owner.
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A campaign to get more girls in England playing golf appears to be working, according to England Golf.
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A new survey of people’s attitudes towards their local golf club has found that the vast majority do not believe membership would be good value for money.
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The historic private members’ golf club, Blairgowrie in Scotland, has appointed a 31-year-old as its new managing secretary.
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A new firm that offers tee time SMS reminders to golfers on the day before they are due to play golf has received backing from golf equipment giant TaylorMade.
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A Shropshire club that began testing men for prostate cancer in 2009 has said more than 200 have been diagnosed in the last eight years.
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Oxford Golf Club has become the latest UK golf club to offer a free membership policy for children.
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The Club Managers Association of Europe (CMAE) has announced that Michael Braidwood CCM is to resume his career as a golf club manager after completing a three-year tenure as the association’s director of education.
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A golf club which has land owned by two Oxford University colleges as well as Oxford University Press could relocate to make way for more than 2,000 homes.
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The current 17th best golfer in the world, Tyrrell Hatton, has joined his local golf club, Stoke Park Country Club, as a member.
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The UK’s leading source of cancer care, Macmillan Cancer Support, has called on everyone to take up golf.
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A Herefordshire golf club has issued a warning to golfers about one of the most common insects in the UK after a man lost his memory following a bite.
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The Golf Foundation has celebrated the ‘inspirational work’ of volunteers and professionals who have provided young people from all backgrounds and abilities with a start in the game.
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The organisation that runs amateur golf in Scotland is calling on every golf club to engage in a consultation exercise this June.
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The UK’s largest independent hotel group, Macdonald Hotel & Resorts, has launched a scheme that will provide free membership for children at five golf clubs.
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A new survey has found that almost all parents believe that golf provides a safe environment for their children and that it can teach them valuable life skills.
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A leading Surrey golf club has appointed a woman to be its captain for the first time in its history.
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Mannings Heath Golf Club & Wine Estate in West Sussex has planted 38,000 vines and has become the first golf club in the UK to also be a winery.
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Private members’ golf clubs could be in line for a VAT rebate worth hundreds of millions of pounds – in addition to the huge payouts hundreds received just a few months ago.
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A Kent golf club has launched a competition to find ‘the south’s unluckiest golfer’ and will give him or her three months of free membership.
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Arsonists have attacked a top Scottish golf club twice in the space of three days.
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A new survey of golfers has found that over half believe the use of social media on golf courses is contributing towards slow play in the game.
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It’s not that unusual for a golfer to hit a hole-in-one on a golf course – but when the golfer is the club’s secretary and nobody had ever done this before, then it becomes a story.
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A company that owns 19 holiday parks in the UK has entered the golf market by purchasing a leading golf club in Yorkshire.
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The 12th Viscount Cobham, Christopher Charles Lyttelton, has bought Hagley Golf and Country Club in the West Midlands, for a reported asking price of £2.25 million.
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The GolfSixes tournament, which saw fireworks, music, a shot clock and top golfers competing over six holes of golf, has already had a positive effect on golf participation, according to a charity.
