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The accounts for two Open venues have revealed a healthy state of finances for two major golf course operators.

A golf club in Leicestershire has received local praise for transforming a flooded bog on its course into a pond and wildlife haven.

A man who has been championing blind golfers for more than two decades is in line for a prestigious national coaching award.

A leading golf club in Northumberland and a top venue in Hertfordshire have both had administrators appointed to them.

A Scottish golf club is to fund improvements by selling its practice ground to a developer, which will build 56 homes.

A major new international golf development in Merseyside is a step nearer after Wirral Council agreed to spend more than half a million pounds on surveys and geotechnical reports to see it through.

A 91-year-old golfer has hit a hole-in-one at Stoke Park Country Club, Spa & Hotel in Buckinhamgshire – the latest story in what’s been an incredible year for elderly golfers.

A PGA professional in Lincolnshire has become the first person who works in golf in England to achieve the DEAFinitely Inclusive Mark, the accreditation scheme that was launched last year

A Welsh golf club that last year changed its name to Celtic Minor could face legal action from Celtic Manor, which believes the club is exploiting its reputation.

A Welsh golf club has told the BBC that the introduction of footgolf led to increasing its turnover by 30 per cent at a time when its membership was falling dramatically.

Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council has surprisingly rejected a proposal to convert Plough Hill Golf Centre in Warwickshire into a housing estate.

A 130-year-old golf club that could have closed down because the HS2 railway line is set to go through the course has had its future secured.

A £60 million golf club is to be built in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, and could open as soon as 2019.

In one of the clearest signs that the golf industry is experiencing recovery, The Lancashire Union of Golf Clubs has said its members have this year collectively seen a rise in their members for the first time in 12 years.

One of the first golf clubs in the UK to set up a flexible membership policy has announced it is going to close it at the end of this year because it is now too popular.

England Golf’s biennial research into the state of the nation’s golf club industry has found a large rise in the age of members of golf clubs in just two years.

At least four golf clubs have announced they are closing or have closed in the space of a few days as many venues are continuing to struggle in the current economic climate.

With more golf clubs closing down this autumn, Edwalton Golf Centre in Nottingham has been told its future has been secured until at least 2025.

The largest-ever programme of education at a turf industry event in Europe has been unveiled by BIGGA.

A study of people who work in Britain’s leisure and hospitality industry has found that nearly half have suffered an injury at work and more than two thirds claim their working environment to be a health and safety hazard.

A legally blind golfer with five per cent central vision has hit his second hole in one in ten years.

Six Derbyshire golf clubs have set up a group so they can work together to attract people to join and visit their clubs – and have already secured government funding for what they’re doing.