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The chief executive of The R&A has said that he will not bully Open venue golf clubs to accept women as members.
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The chief executive of the Professional Golfers Association (PGA) has warned golf clubs against offering non-golf services that could raise income.
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Developers have filed for planning permission to build a major new multi-million pound golf course in Scotland.
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A Surrey golf club has come up with an innovative way to market itself – it is offering unlimited golf for one month.
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Appeal court judges in Scotland have stunned the golf industry by announcing that a golf club must pay a substantially higher proportion of damages than had been previously ruled, after a golfer lost his eye when he was hit by a ball.
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A liquidated Scottish resort has been partially saved after a deal was struck with a landowning family that has an association with the club’s villas.
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One of the world’s oldest golf clubs has received £50,000 of government funding to update its course and clubhouse in an environmentally friendly way.
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The head of the world’s largest operator of golf clubs has said that golf needs to get its ‘head out of the sand’ and start offering much quicker rounds.
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Fifteen golf clubs in north-west England and in Wales have joined a scheme that aims to increase the number of visiting golfers they all receive.
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There has been a huge growth in the number of golf clubs that offer downloadable apps for smartphones in the last few months, according to new data.
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The chairman of the Organisation of Golf and Range Operators has warned that as many as 50 private members’ British golf clubs could close down this spring.
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Eddy Shah has sold his last golf course in what is believed to be one of the industry’s most expensive transactions in recent years.
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Golf is now played at schools so much that it is on more English schools’ curriculums than football, according to new data.
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A Surrey club has come up with an innovative way to attract visitors – by offering an event that requires competitors to excel at both golf and poker.
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Two golf clubs have gone into liquidation, with approximately 55 jobs lost.
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More than nine in ten greenkeepers believe that golfers should pass a test on course care before they are allowed to play the game.
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The PGA is to provide British soldiers returning from duty in Afghanistan with a selection of new golf equipment.
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Golf is worth £5.25 billion to the British and Irish economies, according to a new survey.
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The authority that runs golf in the USA is to dramatically address the pace of play issue that it says is hurting the health of golf venues.
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Liverpool’s two municipal golf venues, which represent four golf clubs, could be closed down by the local council in a bid to cut costs.
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The Scottish government is funding a £20 discount off most first-time golf club memberships for children between now and the end of April.
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The world’s largest golf club has utilised 2,000 of its employees to form the world’s largest human and workable QR code – to promote eco-tourism.
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Greenkeepers renovating a bunker on a Scottish golf course have found a human skull that is believed to be 2,000 years old.
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The annual exhibition for golf course management professionals attracted 6,000 visitors despite economic concerns in the industry and atrocious weather conditions during the event.
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An English golf venue is calling for members of smaller golf clubs to be charged reduced annual subscriptions via a deduction in their affiliation fees to England Golf and their local county golf union.
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Two golf clubs in Northumberland have been awarded more than £80k of lottery funding to improve their facilities.
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A golf club in Northampton has become the latest to attempt to build an adventure golf area to appeal to juniors.
