Golf Ireland celebrates Rory McIlroy’s Masters win

An 18 hole proprietary golf club has downsized to nine holes and blamed its loss on a ‘VAT distortion’ in the golf industry that has caused it economic problems.

A Surrey golf club has closed down its golf course and is instead focussing entirely on FootGolf, the hybrid version of football and golf.

Two of the UK’s biggest media outlets, the BBC & The Telegraph, have both published articles identifying the problems golf is facing and offering solutions.

England Golf has warned that the industry is now in a ‘precarious position’ after its major survey revealed that club membership is still in sharp decline.

At least an astonishing 16 golf clubs, most worth millions, have been put up for sale in the UK in the last 13 weeks. We take a look at all of them.

AGCO chair, former British Open champion and campaigner for tax reform in golf, Vivien Saunders, is set to stand as an MP at the 2015 General Election.

The average age of people who play golf regularly in the UK is up an incredible 15 years from 48 to 63 in less than five years, according to data.

Hundreds of private members’ golf clubs are now almost certainly not going to receive any VAT repayments this year following a new tax chamber ruling.

Taunton Vale GC and Lostwithiel Golf & Country Club are both set to permanently close down this November, in a sign the industry is still in severe trouble.

One of the greatest golf clubs in the world, Royal Dornoch, will donate up to one percent of all the green fee income it receives to local good causes.

Britain’s youngest golf club manager is a 23-year-old woman called Ellie Green, research by Golf Club Management can reveal.

We look at the main golf clubs that closed down this summer – despite some signs of a recovery in the industry.

A majority of golf clubs fail to provide membership details on their own websites despite being desperate for new members, according to two new surveys.

England Golf has launched its far-reaching plan to stop the decline in golf – and in doing so reveals that English golf clubs have lost more than 200,000 members in the last decade.

A golf organisation that is backed by players, equipment manufacturers and industry leaders has devised a radical way to halt the decline in golf: Make the holes bigger. More than three times bigger.