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Golf Ireland celebrates Rory McIlroy’s Masters win
Golf Ireland has extended its congratulations to Rory McIlroy following a sensational back-to-back victory at the Masters in Augusta.
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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.
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US golf club has golfers ‘surfing’ fairways between shots
An American golf venue has introduced a radical new way to get golfers to quickly play the course and in a fun way – golfers can hire carts that allow them to surf fairways.
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Rory McIlroy has an innovative way to get kids into golf
World number one golfer Rory McIlory has said that more children will play golf if the world’s best golfers have more athletic bodies.
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Golfer plays an amazing 18 different courses in one day for charity
The captain of Pleasington Golf Club in Blackburn has played an incredible 18 holes at 18 different golf courses – on the same day – for charity.
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Nairn loses £185k green fee VAT repayment case
A private members’ golf club has lost a VAT repayment claim case about in which it called for the government to pay it back £185,000 in taxes.
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Debt-ridden club to lose its clubhouse
A Yorkshire golf club that became mired in debt is to lose its clubhouse, which will be converted into a luxury property.
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Four historic golf clubs could merge into one due to loss of members
Four of the world’s most historic golf clubs, which are all located in the same Scottish town, could merge into one venue because all four have suffered significant drops in members in the last few years.
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Club dealing with media storm as greenkeeper is suspended for giving water to animal sanctuary
A golf club is dealing with a negative publicity storm after it suspended one of its greenkeepers, after he allowed a neighbouring animal sanctuary to take some of its irrigation water in an emergency.
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‘The worst is over for most golf clubs’
The director of an organisation that markets golf clubs to potential buyers has said that the worst of the financial problems that has beset the industry has come to an end.
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This golf club’s bunkers are made of recycled beer bottles
The sand in the bunkers of Beauchief Golf Course in Sheffield is now made of recycled glass from beer bottles from the club’s bar.
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Giant holes ‘would save golf’ says master greenkeeper
One of the most respected golf course consultants in the world has become the latest high profile figure to state that increasing the size of hole cups in golf would be hugely beneficial to the game.