Foxhills Club & Resort has begun work on a major golf course modernisation project that has seen £1.5 million already invested – and has announced a new director of golf to help oversee the improvements. Following the opening of the club’s dedicated short game area, The Practice Den, and significant driving range enhancements, the Surrey venue will be undergoing a major investment and golf course improvement project over the next five years, which will see the biggest structural changes in […]
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Barry Lane, a Ryder Cup player, five-time European Tour winner and eight-time Legends Tour winner, has died at the age of 62 following a short illness. Lane made 693 starts on the European Tour – now known as the DP World Tour – and is fourth on the Tour’s all-time appearance list. Born in Hayes, Middlesex in 1960, Lane first took up the game of golf aged 14. Two years later, aged 16, he joined the Downshire Golf Club near […]
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With the return of waiting lists and joining fees, and club membership levels up to figures not seen since the early 1980s, all the signs point to golf enjoying something of a boom over the last two years. But is it here to stay and how long can the momentum be maintained? Golf News Editor Nick Bayly looks at some of the wider issues driving golf’s upward curve and finds out what golf clubs and the game’s governing bodies are […]
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The release of the final official world ranking for men’s golf for 2022 revealed some hard evidence about the impact joining the LIV Golf Series has had on some of the world’s top players in terms of their place in the global game. Only seven golfers currently playing on the Saudi-backed tour are now inside the top 50 in the world. Cameron Smith, who only joined LIV Golf in August, and some of the other latecomers, are yet to feel […]
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The Ladies European Tour has unveiled a 30-event tournament schedule for 2023 with a record-breaking prize fund of at least €35m.
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