Whittington Heath opens HS2 course
A golf club that had to be significantly redesigned because the HS2 railway line was planned to cut through it, has reopened.
A golf club that had to be significantly redesigned because the HS2 railway line was planned to cut through it, has reopened.
The C-Complex® range from Headland Amenity is helping Gog Magog Golf Club ward off lush, leafy growth in favour of firm and fast surfaces – in keeping with the course’s downland surroundings.
The unique blend of cultivars in Johnsons Sports Seeds J Tee mixture is delivering the combination of rapid establishment and high wear tolerance required at Wenvoe Castle Golf Club.
A golf venue has submitted plans to convert its par three course into housing.
A golf club in Yorkshire has applied for planning permission to undertake a mammoth £21 million improvement project.
Middleton Hall Golf Club has been acquired by a famous chef who worked with Formula One, and he will rename each hole on the course after an F1 champion.
The chief executive of the UK’s main greenkeepers’ association has issued a rallying cry for the game to reinvest in golf club staff who make the game possible.
As new diseases emerge in the UK, greater emphasis must be given to developing cultivars with improved all round disease tolerance and environmental stress recovery.
A golf club in Grimsby has opted to not go ahead with a proposal to build a 5G phone mast on its course.
STRI Group has appointed Ben Morgan as consultant agronomist regionally based in York, also working out of the STRI’s Bingley headquarters.
A family golf venue in Cambridgeshire has taken over a nearby golf course.
The company behind the Fairmont Hotel in St Andrews has applied for permission to Fife Council to convert its two golf courses into one world-class facility.
A new survey on golf sustainability has found that while many golf clubs carry out environmental best-practice measures, they could do better at communicating this to golfers.
From The Hertfordshire, James talks about the course improvements that have stemmed from a new owner investing in the facility and upgrading while keeping the course open.
A 19th century links venue is to construct a ‘coastal defence project’ featuring ‘mattresses’ made of steel frames and filled with stone to protect the course from erosion.
A golf course that has temporarily closed due to its council’s budgeting crisis is now being used as a football pitch, threatening its future, according to reports.
A major Irish golf club that was hit by large losses in the first year of the pandemic has seen a surge in income in the last 12 months.
Another two golf clubs have revealed they’ve been targeted by antisocial yobs in recent days.
BIGGA has launched an industry-wide survey that will quantify information relating to a perceived recruitment ‘crisis’ within the greenkeeping and wider golfing sector.
Three golf courses in Edinburgh have experienced balaclava-wearing motorbike riding youths tearing up the courses and threatening golfers who try to challenge them in recent days.
The world’s ‘best new golf course’, Dumbarnie Links, has closed for four weeks due to extreme pressure on the young fescue grasses on its greens.