Entertainment golf: does the bay feed the course?
Off-course participation now exceeds on-course participation in Britain. Whether that produces golfers depends less on the venues than on whether anyone is standing on…
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Who plays golf now, what they spend, and how the game is changing — rounds played, club membership, women’s golf, and the technology reshaping practice.
Launch monitors at home: which numbers are real
One number justifies the category for an amateur: carry distance, which almost no club golfer has honestly. The rest is decoration, and the sticker…
The under-40 wave and what clubs do about it
Under-forty golfers are the fastest-growing group in the British game, and most of them arrived through a simulator bay rather than a junior programme.…
Water, chemicals and what British courses changed
Brown fairways in August are a sign of a course managed well, not a course in trouble. The useful question is not whether golf…
Rounds played hit a record: what the golf boom means for getting on the course
Rounds played across mainland Great Britain rose 14 per cent in 2025, the highest total since comparable records began in 2005.