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Foxhills’ director of golf Sean Graham on managing 6,000 members and £2m course upgrades
Foxhills’ director of golf Sean Graham discusses the club’s landmark 50th anniversary, the £2 million renovation of the Longcross Course and how a relentless focus on family-centric investment has built a thriving community of nearly 6,000 members in Surrey.
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Another two golf clubs allow women to join them
Two more historic golf clubs have decided to end their men-only membership policies and allow women to become members for the first time.
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160 golf clubs now offer footgolf
More than 150 UK golf clubs offer footgolf, the new sport that combines football and golf, even though it only came to the UK less than three years ago.
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AGCO challenges non-profit status of private members’ golf clubs
The chair of the Association of Golf Course Owners (AGCO), Vivien Saunders, has submitted a report to the senior policy advisor on VAT at the Treasury that calls for the non-profit status of private members’ clubs to be challenged.
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CONGU announces new handicapping changes
The Council of National Golf Unions (CONGU) has announced that its revised handicapping system has been updated and the new changes will come in on January 1, 2016.
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Greg Norman has radical ideas to improve the state of golf
Greg Norman calls for relaxed dress codes, a 12-hole format of golf and even music in buggies to address the large drop in participation over the last few years.
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Golf Club Manager of the Year finalist Tracy Rawlinson, Warrington Golf Club
Profile of Golf Club Manager of the Year finalist Tracy Rawlinson, Warrington Golf Club.
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Wentworth to charge £125,000 joining fee
Wentworth Club in Surrey is to raise its joining fee from £15,000 to £125,000 amid reports that it wants to get rid of its high net worth members because they are not rich enough.
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Carin Koch: Dress codes put women off golf
European Solheim Cup captain Carin Koch has said that several golf clubs are missing out on thousands of female customers by having restrictive dress codes.
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These clubs are abandoning ladies’ tees and here’s why
More than 30 UK golf clubs have abandoned ladies’ tees in an effort to encourage improving golfers, retain ageing players and promote social golf.
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These are the golf clubs that have been put up for sale in the last few months
A raft of golf clubs have been put up for sale in the last few months, carrying on from 2014, in which more UK golf clubs were put on the market than in any other year in history.
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BBC TV presenter Naga Munchetty: Golf is an amazing game for women
BBC Breakfast presenter Naga Munchetty has said that finding golf has changed her life and that the sport is fantastic for women.
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Lee Westwood: Golf needs larger holes, a two-hour format and an image overhaul
Leading golfer Lee Westwood has said that the game of golf needs an urgent image revamp amid worrying data about participation trends.
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Participation in golf: The shocking facts over the last seven years
Golf in England has lost more than 200,000 weekly, and well over 400,000 monthly, players in just the last seven years, according to new data.
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‘Golf club committees are killing golf clubs’
A pioneering student who has been given a four-figure business grant to develop a product that could benefit golf clubs has said that their backward-looking committees are destroying their own venues.
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Ian Poulter praises Sky Sports over British Masters
Leading British golfer Ian Poulter has thanked Sky Sports for helping get the British Masters back on the European Tour schedule.