2022 Ryder Cup provides huge opportunity for Italy 0
The Marco Simone Golf and Country Club will play host to the Ryder Cup in 2022, as Italy welcomes the prestigious competition for the first time in its history.
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The multiple functions of golf clubhouses: The ideal venue for your next poker tournament 0
Golf is one of the UK’s favourite sports, as evidenced by England having more registered golf courses than any other country in the UK by a long way.
Frustration as some golfers fail to socially distance 12
A golf club has warned that golfers who fail to respect social distancing rules risk having the venue closed down, after an image showed five golfers standing next to each other at a tee.
Reopened golf clubs across Europe are busy but struggling with new rules 12
Reports from across Europe where golf courses have reopened in the last few days suggest there is strong demand to play the game but venues have been fined and even closed down for not complying with new Covid-19 regulations.
Meet the manager: Jonathan Webb 1
The general manager of Walmer & Kingsdown GC talks about the club’s location on top of the White Cliffs of Dover and the transferrable skills he learned at NATO commanding over 1,000 troops.
Meet the head greenkeeper: Cathcart Castle’s Scott Davidson 0
Scott talks about improving the course’s drainage and therefore the greens, renovating the bunkers and trialling new grasses on a redundant green.
Irish golf clubs optimistic for 2020 0
A review of several Irish golf clubs has found optimism for the year ahead with many reporting that initiatives introduced in recent years have proved to be successful.
Meet the golf club manager: Darren Attwood 0
The club secretary of Royal Jersey GC talks about being in the unprecedented position of spending the last two decades managing a prestigious club where he has also been a member since the mid-1970s.
Ireland now has more members of golf clubs than Scotland 0
Ireland has more members of golf clubs than Scotland for the first time since KPMG started comparing the figures of the two golfing unions.
Major golf event will offer free sanitary products to all spectators 2
Next month’s Solheim Cup, the women’s version of the Ryder Cup in which Europe take on the USA, will be the first major golf competition to tackle period poverty and it will feature an all-female police command structure.
England still dominates Europe’s golf course table 2
A new R&A report on golf around the world has found that more than three-quarters of all the golf courses in existence are located in just 10 countries.
There are 4.2 million registered golfers in Europe 3
KPMG’s annual survey of the state of the golf industry in Europe has found there are just under 4.2 million members of 6,900 golf clubs in the continent.
Interest in Ryder Cup has surged to huge levels 0
The number of people interested in the Ryder Cup has surged by more than six million people over just the last four years.
International ‘early evening’ nine-hole competition gains R&A support 5
As new statistics continue to prove the growing popularity of nine-hole golf, The R&A has thrown its support behind a German competition which is about to be branched out across the world.
Huge growth in Highlands visitor numbers proves benefits of golf clubs working together 0
Three Scottish golf clubs have said they have generated hundreds of thousands of pounds in extra revenue in the last few years by working together.
Here’s the top three things I learnt about the industry in January 0
From the role Germany could play in reviving your facility to a spike in burglaries at golf clubs, The Golf Business editor Alistair Dunsmuir reviews the last month in the industry.
Is it time to market to German golfers? 1
A new survey has found that German golfers spend almost double the amount on foreign golf holidays than British people do.
88% of managers say they get insufficient training 1
A poll of 200 small to medium sized business owners, directors and managers has found that the overwhelming majority believe they received insufficient training to do their job.
Company profile: Acumen – ClearWater 1
Acumen Waste Services, with ClearWater and other Highspeed Group brands under its belt, and acquired following the purchase of Highspeed Group in April of this year, is focusing very much on the future
Here’s the top three things I learnt while editing The Golf Business in September 0
From golf courses being the location of air ambulances to world record attempts for par five holes, the editor of The Golf Business, Alistair Dunsmuir, charts his monthly top three trends.
More women than men play golf in this European country 0
For the first time ever a European country has reported that more women were members of its golf clubs than men in 2016.
Why have Italian golf clubs seen a 25% rise in green fees since 2015? 0
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.
Is it possible to maintain healthy turfgrass with just one application of fertiliser? 0
One of the world’s foremost experts on turfgrass disease management, John Dempsey PhD, last year carried out a major trial on whether it’s possible to maintain healthy turfgrass on a fairway with just one application of a controlled release fertiliser
Unions report ‘surge’ in female participation in golf 1
Both England Golf and the Golf Union of Wales have issued a statement saying their countries are now witnessing a surge in female participation of the game.
Only 25% of men want to play golf with women 1
A new survey has found that men play a huge role in tapping into the massive potential of women golfers – but they need to change their attitudes first.
It’s other women, and rules, that put women off from playing golf 4
Fashion designer Emma Hope has said golf club rules and other women golfers are why golf clubs have such a problem recruiting ladies to play the game.
Golf sees global boom in female participation… with one exception 7
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.
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