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Meet the golf club owner: John Adamson
The owner and director of Ramside Estates & Ramside Hall in County Durham, John Adamson, talks about the venue’s growth from a hotel in the 1960s to one of England’s leading golf resorts today.
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Small business ideas to start at university
A lot of students come up with the most creative ways to get a steady income.
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7% pay rise recommended for golf club staff
The Committee for Golf Club Salaries (CGCS) has recommended a seven percent increase in the salaries of golf club staff for 2024, and nine percent for assistant greenkeepers.
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Historic club offers lifetime memberships to fund coastal erosion work
One of the world’s oldest links venues, Fortrose & Rosemarkie Golf Club, is offering a lifetime overseas golf membership to help pay for protection against storms.
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Centurion Club plans to build 10 more holes
An 18-hole Hertfordshire golf club has submitted a plan to build 10 additional holes.
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Golf strategy: How to make smart decisions on the course for lower scores
Golf, well known as a game of precision and patience, can simultaneously be a source of immense joy and utter, devastating frustration.
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Thieves stole 10,000 golf balls from club
Thieves stole more than 10,000 golf balls from a golf club in Kent that had just reopened after years of closure in an overnight raid shortly before Christmas.
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The history of golf attire in the UK
From Mary, Queen of Scots to the present day, a dress code, for reasons ranging from performance to decorum, has been used and can make sense, writes Kiran Kanwar, but, ideally, a balance should be struck.
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Dorset venue to entirely close down
A golf club, hotel and spa in Dorset that said it would close its golf operation down this year has now announced that the entire venue will permanently close.
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BTME preview
A number of companies and products will be exhibiting at BTME this month, from January 23 to 25, at Harrogate Convention Centre. Here we look at some of the main exhibitions.
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CardsSafe helps golf clubs securely retain customers’ bank and ID cards
“With CardsSafe, we can safely store customers’ cards whilst they enjoy their round of golf.”
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CEO of The R&A, Martin Slumbers, to step down
Martin Slumbers, CEO of The R&A and secretary of The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, is to step down by the end of 2024 after what will be nine years in the role.
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The average UK golf club generated £164k in green fee income in 2023
New research of nearly 200 golf clubs has found that the average club in the UK and Ireland generated £163,952 in casual green fee income in 2023 – eight percent higher than the previous record year of 2022.
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Rolls of Monmouth to build driving range
An historic Welsh site, which became a golf club in 1982, with a Grade II-listed manor house for a clubhouse, is to build a driving range.
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Nine-hole golf booming in England
England Golf has reported that golf participation in 2023 was up compared with 2022’s high numbers, and nine-hole golf has seen a sharp rise.
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Love Golf UK takes over third venue
A golf course operator that was established in 2019 has taken over its third golf club.