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An enlarged flood storage pool and newly constructed bund at Horsehay Golf Club will hold back water during heavy rainfall to protect nearby homes, following a partnership between Telford & Wrekin Council, the Environment Agency and the club.
Allan Harrison was four over and eating a pasty at the halfway house. What happened next - seven consecutive birdies and eight in nine holes - is a run the numbers say should happen once in 455,000 rounds.
Stourbridge GC's chairman Simon Markey says the club has been overwhelmed with support after a fire tore through more than 500 acres - but restoring the course could cost over £1m and claim up to 1,000 trees.
Thieves took every piece of silverware from Minto Golf Club on Saturday night, including trophies dating back almost a century. Police Scotland is appealing for information, and the club has urged other sporting clubs across the Borders to review their security.
Two Surrey golf clubs face closure under separate housing schemes that would between them put around 1,500 homes on land currently occupied by 36 holes.
Alan Martin, golf general manager at Another Place, The Machrie, talks about running a links destination on Islay - recruitment on a remote island, the logic behind a winter closure and why Another Place, The Machrie now rivals anything else in Scotland.
Golf club operator Link Golf UK has appointed Andy King as its strategic advisor to support its next phase of growth.
Golf clubs across southern and eastern England could face the first restrictions on business water use in two decades, after two water companies moved towards non-essential use bans, as the 2026 drought deepens.
Forget Spain and Portugal - Golfalot editor Dan Box heads to Austria’s Tyrol region, discovering championship courses, alpine scenery and the Austrian Alpine Open in a golf destination the UK market has, to its detriment, largely overlooked.
TGI Golf partner facilities across the UK and Ireland are to be given exclusive commercial access to an automatic teeing system that's been installed at more than 400 venues worldwide, including St Andrews, The Belfry and Celtic Manor.
The new clubhouse at Royal Dornoch has been operating at unprecedented levels since opening in December, with bar sales quadrupling in May and the kitchen serving twice as many plates as during the same month last year.
Willingdon Golf Club in Eastbourne has raised more than £30,000 towards a borehole that will cut its reliance on mains water, after members hit a £15,000 Crowdfunder target in little over a fortnight and unlocked a matching £15,000 National Lottery grant from Sport England.
Matt Vigurs has achieved what England Golf is saying may be the longest hole-in-one in English history - a 411-yard hole-in-one at Great Barr Golf Club in the West Midlands this weekend, which, unsurprisingly, was also an albatross.
