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Many clubs are angry that HMRC has not yet processed claims for a VAT rebate on green fees, as KPMG calls for members’ clubs to now treat green fees as exempt from VAT.

The vast majority of golfers now use at least one of the major social networking sites and, for the first time, the majority now own a smartphone.

A venue has made what is thought to be the largest donation a golf club has ever made while a cancer trust has said a separate donation it received from a golf club is the biggest it has ever received.

A sports development professional has said teenagers with learning difficulties are gaining key life skills via a programme that teaches them golf.

The National Association of Public Golf Courses has said it is clear who is to blame for the now astonishing deterioration in municipal golf courses.

A 55-year-old man who was sacked, for what he claims as being too old, by a golf club he worked at, has been awarded more than £50,000 by an employment tribunal.

Ellesmere Port Golf Club in Cheshire’s has appointed a pre-lingual deaf person to be its captain – the first time this has happened in British history.

Boston West Golf Club in Lincolnshire has won two conservation awards in the last year for creating a ‘mini nature reserve’.

The game of golf is seeing a boom in the number of women playing it around the world – with the one notable exception being the UK.

Two organisations that are involved in preparing the Open Championship this year are putting together a project to tackle the public’s perception of golf as ‘elitist’.

A new survey has revealed that a welcoming atmosphere is the number one reason why somebody relatively new to golf will join a golf club. But what is a ‘welcoming atmosphere’?

A golf conference on participation has concluded that the game urgently needs to change its image – as a new survey finds that infrequent golfers are deserting golf and not being replaced.

A golf course in the USA has become the first club in the world to go ‘ball-less’ – golfers play usual rounds on its course but hit a virtual ball rather than a physical one.

The England Golf Partnership is to lose £500,000 of public funding because not enough people aged 26 and over have taken up golf in the last year.

England Golf has thrown its support behind Shrewsbury Golf Club’s opposition to two wind turbines being built nearby, saying they have a negative effect on golfers and golf clubs.

Golfers are unlikely to be successful if they take action against golf clubs for not paying them back the overpaid VAT they paid, one of the UK’s leading tax experts has said.

As both Montrose Golf Links and Caldy Golf Club bring in measures to deal with coastal erosion, we look at some of the UK golf courses that are in danger of falling into the sea.

A £20m new golf course aimed at families is set to open in Derbyshire in less than a year’s time.

Two burglars who stole more than £750,000-worth of equipment from the lockers of more than 60 golf clubs in 17 counties have been jailed for a total of eight years.

The R&A will decide shortly on whether it will continue awarding Open Championships to be hosted by men-only golf clubs, after criticism from a key sponsor.

A golf club is closing down in the USA at a rate of approximately one every two days, according to new data.

A club that aims to be the most exclusive golf club in Britain has won a legal battle against St Andrews Links Trust to use the words ‘St Andrews’ as part of its name.

At least two more municipal golf clubs have been handed over or closed down by their local authorities since the start of this year.

England Golf is calling on clubs to relax dress codes and restrictions on mobile phones, offer flexible membership options and make golf affordable to try in a bid to reverse economic problems.