Golf Features

Editorial

It is wonderful to be able to play golf again and to be able to offer customers the opportunity to get out on the course having been locked down tight for seven weeks. There are many restrictions in this new method of operating: some are better, and some not so helpful. It has also been extremely encouraging that for the main part, the various golfing bodies; UK Golf Federation, R&A, PGA, BIGGA, GCMA, BGIA, and the regional home unions have all worked fairly harmoniously together to get a reasonable set of rules to operate under during these difficult times.

Re-Opening Golf at Basildon Golf Course

We are all delighted to be open for golf again, despite being restricted to outside trade only and playing only in 1 and 2 ball groups, unless in a household group.

A Successful Re-opening for Golf Courses - from the UK golf Federation

A collective sigh of relief swept across the UK as golf re-opened last Wednesday 13th May. Golfers, who have been under strict lockdown, were delighted to be allowed to play again.

RBC heritage set for June - what lies ahead?

PGA Tour starts in Texas then South Carolina

by M. James Ward

Grade A Achitecture - Ozarks National Golf Course

Big Cedar Lodge, Ozarks National Golf Course
4th hole / 446 Yards / Par-4
Hollister, Missouri
Architect: Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw (2019)

by M. James Ward

Golf Courses 4 Sale

• The Herefordshire Golf Club

• Highbullen Hotel Golf and Country Club

• Confidential Disposal

• Warley Park - To Let

News Roundup

• 59club Delivers Financial Intelligence to Golf at no cost with New Metrics Platform

• La Cala Reopened as Golf Returns on the Costa Del Sol

• Virtual Women’s Golf Day Unites the industry for a Day of Entertainment, Celebration and Fundraising

• love.golf supports coaches in lockdown

Golf Foundation

• The Golf Foundation says: ‘Don’t forget our young golfers!’

Retail News

Light at the end of the tunnel

There were hopes at the start of the year that the general downturn in retail sales that had plagued so much of 2019 owing to the uncertainties of Brexit were starting to ease. Golfers’ wallets appeared to be loosening giving a good start to the year. March’s weather was generally good from a golfing perspective.