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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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Meet the course manager: Simon Bell-Tye
Simon is the course manager of Skylark Golf & Country Club in Hampshire. He talks about the major bunker refurbishment his team carried out, plus his attitude to tree management
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BGIA calls for UK-wide adoption of strategy to tackle slow play
The powerful British Golf Industry Association (BGIA) has called on every golf association in the UK to adopt The R&A’s programme ‘Ready Golf’, in a bid to tackle slow play.
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Sponsored feature: cloud-based software golf clubs
As the pace of software innovation is changing more rapidly than ever, the need to guide and support golf club customers through all the changes is reinforced.
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BGIA chair to contribute for The Golf Business
The executive chair of the British Golf Industry Association (BGIA), Philip Morley, has agreed to write a semi-regular column for The Golf Business.
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Removing WW2 wall could have major impact on Guernsey golf course
A multi-million project to remove a UK wall that was built to stop British forces invading could have a devastating effect on a nearby golf club.
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Another golf club opens up a vineyard
A Spanish golf club has become the latest in Europe to open up an on-site vineyard.
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Golf reduces risk of heart disease by 30%
It’s official, golf is good for you: A major study has found that people who play the game regularly are 30 per cent less likely to experience coronary heart disease than those who don’t.
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Meet the PGA pro: Nike Golf brand ambassador Matt Antell
Matt is a PGA Performance Coach who works with England Golf and Surrey Golf, and delivers the Hugh Marr Performance Systems for the Surrey Golf Lab, which he launched, at Reigate Hill GC
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Club profile: Wellingborough Golf Club
The Northamptonshire club discovered that old statues it acquired were made for the tomb of Cardinal Wolsey – and has since sold them for millions
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100-year-old tells ITV: ‘Golf has prolonged my life’
A 100-year-old man who plays golf twice a week has been profiled on ITV News – and he says the game has prolonged his life.
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Could you play 18 full-length holes in less than 40 minutes?
A number of golf clubs have been trialing ‘SpeedGolf’ – where golfers run between holes as scores are calculated by the number of shots and the time taken to complete the round.
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This golf club is officially junior friendly
A golf club in Staffordshire has become the 100th in England to achieve ‘GolfMark’ status – which means it has passed criteria for how welcoming it is to beginners and juniors.
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Legal matters: Fracking on the golf course
This guidance from the National Golf Clubs’ Advisory Association looks at the financial and legal ramifications of allowing a fracking company to mine for energy on land the golf club owns.Â
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Why have Italian golf clubs seen a 25% rise in green fees since 2015?
A project that promotes golf tourism to Italy has said the country’s golf clubs have seen a stunning 25 per cent rise in green fee income from foreigners in just the last two years.
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App for golf club members to launch
The same company that launched the HowDidiDo app for golfers, which has already had over 100,000 downloads, is launching an app for members of golf clubs, which should dramatically reduce managers’ admin time