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Meet the director of golf:Â Dean Montgomery
Having worked at great golf clubs around the world, including Royal Liverpool, Bearwood Lakes and Yas Links, Dean Montgomery has taken on a new role as director of golf at Golf at The Hawthorn, just as it is about to open a luxury hotel.
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How to keep golfers as safe as possible from lightning strikes
There is a complete lightning detection and warning system to keep members safe, from Biral and Reesink Turfcare.
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Golf in Asia: Managing Mission Hills
With its 11 golf courses, Mission Hills in China is the biggest golf resort in the world. Here, the Chu brothers, who run it, known as the faces of golf in China, talk about the venue and growing the game around the world.Â
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The rise of skill-based golf games at casinos
For most of us, the most alluring thing about casino resorts is that they often have top-class golf courses attached to them.
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Cams Hall Estate becomes The Club Company’s 15th golf club
Cams Hall Estate Golf Club in Hampshire has been acquired by The Club Company, its second purchase in the last year, meaning the organisation now owns 15 golf clubs.
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Club plans to woo a ‘major championship’ by 2021 with multi-million pound transformation
A Scottish golf club hopes to host a ‘major championship’ by next year, after it has been given the green light to embark on a multi-million pound transformation.
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In their own words: Keith Pelley
Writing exclusively for The Golf Business, the chief executive of the European Tour takes us through the organisation’s branding changes.
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Meet the director of golf: Langland Bay Golf Club’s Andrew Minty
Andrew talks about how the club formed an affiliation with Pebble Beach in the USA, the awards both he and the club have won in recent years, the state of the game in Wales in 2020 and the Hollywood celebrities he’s worked with.
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UK’s busiest driving range to provide coaching for wounded personnel
The UK’s busiest driving range has partnered with a programme that utilises golf to enhance the recovery of wounded, injured and sick service personnel, to offer life-changing coaching.
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Wales Golf to run 2020 golf festival weekend
Wales Golf is to launch a new festival weekend this year with five separate events open for new, junior and disabled golfers.
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In their own words: Jonathan Smith
The founder and executive director of GEO Foundation explains the benefits to a golf club from going green.
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Prince’s Golf Club invests in sharpening equipment
Following a renovation project that has boosted Prince’s Golf Club in Kent’s course and course machinery, the club has invested in innovative new sharpening equipment.
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Fife golf clubs report best-ever figures
A group of four historic Fife golf clubs that offer opportunities for golfers to play at all of them under the same package has said it saw ‘some of its best year-on-year booking figures during 2019’.
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Two leading pros take over Sunningdale Heath Golf Club
A published golf author and a golf radio host have taken over Sunningdale Heath Golf Club in Berkshire – the club that once had the Queen Mother as its captain.
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Birmingham golf course to switch from 18 to nine holes
A struggling golf club in Birmingham is to be revamped so that it will feature a nine-hole course and a footgolf course, in a move that should secure its future.
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Club given green light to build 92 homes to secure its future
A Northumberland golf club that has financially struggled in recent years has been given the green light to have nearly 100 new homes built on part of its current course to prevent it from closing down.