Royal Cromer expands fleet with Toro and Reesink Turfcare

Royal Cromer expands fleet with Toro and Reesink Turfcare 0

🕔08:50, 24.Nov 2024

Royal Cromer has again shown its commitment to sustainability with the help of Toro and Reesink Turfcare, expanding its fleet with three new Toro eTriFlex 3370 electric mowers and an upgraded Toro irrigation system.

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They’ve come home

They’ve come home 0

🕔08:59, 22.Nov 2024

Brynhill Golf Club’s membership has more than doubled since it appointed a new manager last year. Both he and his brother, who is now the club’s director of golf, were junior members at Brynhill in the 1980s.

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Club to reconfigure course due to motorway widening scheme

Club to reconfigure course due to motorway widening scheme 0

🕔12:19, 21.Nov 2024

Pike Fold Golf Club in Greater Manchester has been granted planning permission to alter seven of its holes due to a major motorway remodelling scheme.

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‘Rolling has never resulted in soil compaction’

‘Rolling has never resulted in soil compaction’ 0

🕔08:39, 20.Nov 2024

Thomas Nikolai, PhD, the ‘doctor of green speed’, is a senior turfgrass academic specialist based at Michigan State University. Here, he discusses common myths in the industry, and the benefits of rolling.

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Scottish club hopes to move to nine holes

Scottish club hopes to move to nine holes 0

🕔12:09, 19.Nov 2024

Craigie Hill Golf Club in Scotland has submitted a planning application to reduce its holes from 18 to nine, build a new ‘Sports and Community Hub’ and create a residential development.

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Meet the duo running Tewkesbury Park: Patrick Jones and Claire White

Meet the duo running Tewkesbury Park: Patrick Jones and Claire White 0

🕔09:08, 18.Nov 2024

Patrick Jones is the general manager, and Claire White the commercial director, at Gloucestershire golf resort Tewkesbury Park. They talk about how the venue has been transformed in the last decade.

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Do your digital systems help drive your business forwards?

Do your digital systems help drive your business forwards? 0

🕔11:31, 15.Nov 2024

David Murch, Foremost Golf Business Development Consultant, highlights the importance of using digital systems to optimise business performance.

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New 18-hole course to open next year

New 18-hole course to open next year 1

🕔12:52, 14.Nov 2024

A major new 18-hole golf course will open for two months of preview play in Scotland in 2025, before opening officially in 2026.

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Meet the head professional: Alasdair Good

Meet the head professional: Alasdair Good 4

🕔12:57, 13.Nov 2024

From Gullane Golf Club, head pro Alasdair Good discusses a career that started in the 1980s and has seen him be a TGI Golf partner for more than 20 years, and being the founder of Wee Wonders.

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Balmoral Golf Club explores options to avoid administration

Balmoral Golf Club explores options to avoid administration 1

🕔12:50, 12.Nov 2024

Balmoral Golf Club in Northern Ireland is asking its members to lend it £1,000 each to stave off potential administration.

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Forres Golf Club goes all-in on Toro

Forres Golf Club goes all-in on Toro 0

🕔12:07, 12.Nov 2024

Forres Golf Club in Moray, Scotland has gone all-in on Toro with a small fleet to optimise operations and do more with its experienced team of four.

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“It’s been mentally brilliant for me”

“It’s been mentally brilliant for me” 1

🕔11:26, 11.Nov 2024

After being diagnosed with a functional neurological disorder, Pauline Reid tried golf for the first time at her local club. This has changed her life.

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Scottish golf club receives £290k to rebuild clubhouse

Scottish golf club receives £290k to rebuild clubhouse 0

🕔11:50, 8.Nov 2024

A golf club in Scotland has received a grant of £290,000 – 60 percent of the cost of the project – to rebuild a new clubhouse featuring solar panels and energy-efficient lighting.

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Embracing the digitisation of golf presents a huge opportunity for UK golf clubs

Embracing the digitisation of golf presents a huge opportunity for UK golf clubs 0

🕔11:14, 7.Nov 2024

Technology has barged its way into the golf industry, making clubs and organisations globally audit their current software solutions to keep up with the advanced digital era.

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5% pay increase recommended for golf club staff

5% pay increase recommended for golf club staff 0

🕔12:59, 6.Nov 2024

All golf clubs in the UK have been advised to give their key members of staff a, on average, five percent salary increase for 2025.

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Beeston Fields sold after 101 years

Beeston Fields sold after 101 years 9

🕔10:56, 5.Nov 2024

A Nottinghamshire golf club that has been in the same family since it was founded 101 years ago has been sold to a developer that has said the golf venue will be maintained.

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North Oxford Golf Club to close next year

North Oxford Golf Club to close next year 2

🕔13:08, 4.Nov 2024

A historic golf club in Oxfordshire has been earmarked to close down next year so that houses can be built on the land.

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Surbiton Golf Club invests in hybrid mowers

Surbiton Golf Club invests in hybrid mowers 0

🕔12:54, 1.Nov 2024

Surbiton Golf Club has invested for the first time in environmentally friendly technology with two Greensmaster 3360 hybrid mowers, and accessed the industry’s newest spraying technology with the GeoLink system.

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Budget ‘adds to existential pressure’ on many golf clubs

Budget ‘adds to existential pressure’ on many golf clubs 0

🕔11:27, 31.Oct 2024

The autumn budget has added to pressures that ‘could tip the scales for many golf clubs’ in the UK, an industry expert has claimed.

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Here’s three important developments from the last month in the UK golf industry

Here’s three important developments from the last month in the UK golf industry 0

🕔10:48, 31.Oct 2024

From some clubs struggling to survive to others investing in new clubhouses, the effects of a participation boost and inflation in the last few years has been felt very differently across the industry.

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Profile: Kress RTKn mowers

Profile: Kress RTKn mowers 0

🕔09:41, 29.Oct 2024

The Kress RTKn robot mower addresses all essential factors for efficient and effective robotic mowing on your golf course.

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Reesink catches up with post-pandemic supply issues

Reesink catches up with post-pandemic supply issues 0

🕔13:12, 27.Oct 2024

Reesink Turfcare, UK distributor of Toro fine turf machinery, has revealed that, following post-pandemic supply issues, more than 95% of its popular Toro models are now in stock and available for immediate delivery.

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Royal Dornoch buys 50 acres of land

Royal Dornoch buys 50 acres of land 1

🕔09:56, 25.Oct 2024

Royal Dornoch Golf Club has acquired 50 acres of adjacent rolling farmland for a six-figure sum and will use it to develop its Struie Course.

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Embracing the opportunity to reset

Embracing the opportunity to reset 1

🕔08:59, 25.Oct 2024

This year Stellar Asset Management bought its fourth golf club, to ensure it avoided insolvency. Ben Blackburn explains why this company is investing in golf and what changes the venues are experiencing.

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Guide for developing golf on small areas of land launched

Guide for developing golf on small areas of land launched 1

🕔10:33, 24.Oct 2024

The R&A has published a guide outlining the best ways to use restricted areas of land for golf course development.

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With a padel

With a padel 0

🕔04:41, 24.Oct 2024

Padel courts have been built at several golf clubs in recent years. But what is padel and why is it proving to be irresistible to so many golf venues?

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Royal Ascot installs 124 solar panels and plants 2,500 trees

Royal Ascot installs 124 solar panels and plants 2,500 trees 0

🕔10:24, 23.Oct 2024

Royal Ascot Golf Club in Berkshire has installed 124 silicon panels and planted 2,500 trees across its 18-hole course, which sits on 150 acres of wooded crown land in Windsor Great Park.

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