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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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Fears for Irish clubs as bank sells off their debts
An Irish golf club has closed down after its debt – valued at more than £1.1 million – was sold by a bank to a fund.
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Adventure golf concept for adults and students to be launched
An adventure golf concept that will be marketed to adults rather than children or families is set to be launched at several venues in the next few months.
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Golfer sues club for revoking international membership amid reports that he was playing ’30 times a year’
A golfer is taking legal action against an exclusive club after it revoked his cheaper international membership because he was playing more than 30 rounds a year.
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Hamilton Golf Club embarks on irrigation refit
Based on a recommendation, Hamilton Golf Club in Lanarkshire, Scotland, opted for Toro for its irrigation refit.
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Historic Yorkshire golf club in potential rescue package negotiations
A 127-year-old golf club in Yorkshire has said it is working with its local authority to ensure it can continue operating.
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Huge rise in golf bookings suggests golfers are holidaying in the UK
A Cornish golf resort has seen a huge 20 per cent rise in group golf throughout 2019.
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Closed down course set to be resurrected and improved
In a sign of the strength of some parts of the UK golf market, a Lancashire facility that closed down in 2013, and then reopened as a nine-hole club, now plans to revert back to being an 18-hole venue.
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Castle Stuart back on track to build second course
Castle Stuart Golf Links in Scotland, which has hosted the Scottish Open four times since it opened just ten years ago, is set to build a new championship course.
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Meet the golf club manager: Darren Attwood
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.
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How to make more from corporate golf
Corporate golf offerings are a way for a golf club to earn significant revenues. Here, we look at how two maximise this – including recruiting big name professionals to be on hand for lessons.
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The redesign of Prince’s Golf Club
The Kent golf club has three loops of nine holes, which are all being redesigned. The first has now been completed and the result is stunning.
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A look at the new Royal Norwich golf course
In September Royal Norwich GC moved to a new home a few miles away. We speak to its estates director about the course management work that went into this and his role as a member of the club’s board.
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Two of the world’s oldest golf clubs merge amid membership declines
The ninth oldest golf club in the world has merged with another historic club – founded in 1879 – to form a new golf club, in the hope that two struggling venues can cut clubhouse costs and thrive as one entity.
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Four Merseyside golf clubs have their futures secured
Plans to privatise two golf clubs in Merseyside have been dropped by Wirral Council, which has said it will instead invest in both the venues and another two courses.
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Ireland now has more members of golf clubs than Scotland
Ireland has more members of golf clubs than Scotland for the first time since KPMG started comparing the figures of the two golfing unions.