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Inside the May 2026 opening of Tom Doak’s Old Petty golf course at Cabot Highlands
As Old Petty prepares for its official May 2026 debut, Cabot Europe’s Mark Wright discusses Tom Doak’s rugged design, the strategy behind preview play traffic, and how the new course transforms Cabot Highlands into a premier 36-hole global destination.
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HS2-destroyed venue to be given new golf course
A golf club that will be effectively annihilated by the £43 billion high-speed HS2 route is to be given a new state-of-the-art course. Ingestre Park Golf Club in Staffordshire will lose seven of its 18 holes, with the line passing within 100 metres of its clubhouse. The 42-year-old venue will lose 13 of its 128…
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Making green speeds faster slows a round down
A significant study on golf green speeds has found that making the surface faster actually increases the length of time for golfers to play a round on that course. The perceived long length it takes to play a round of golf is one of the most cited reasons why participation in the game has been…
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Highspeed offer £100 spring discount on tanks
Highspeed Group has launched a ‘Big Discount Carbery Fuel King Spring Promotion’ on its Bundedtanks.com website. “There’s probably not been a better time to buy a diesel refueling tank if that’s what you are considering. Bundedtanks.com has launched the latest promotion featuring the two Carbery Fuel Kings (1350 and 2500 litres),” said spokesman David Mears.…
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Gareth Bale to employ a full-time greenkeeper
Real Madrid footballer Gareth Bale has said he will build a golf course for his UK home and employ a full-time greenkeeper to maintain it. Welshman Bale, the world’s most expensive footballer, has commissioned the construction of a three-hole golf course in the garden of his Vale of Glamorgan home. Bale wants three holes from…
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William Fitzpatrick is Irish Student Greenkeeper of the Year
The winner of the ICL and Syngenta sponsored Irish Student Greenkeeper of the Year award has been announced as William Fitzpatrick. The award is part of the Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board’s (KWETB) greenkeeping training course run at Naas Golf Club in Kerdiffstown, County Kildare. For a period of 48 weeks participants incorporate…
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This image shows the amazing drainage change at Parley
This picture shows the dramatic impact drainage work that was carried out at Parley Golf Centre in Dorset has had. On the left is how the course looked in January 2014, prior to a £250,000 programme of improvements, and on the right is the same angle from January 2016. “Where once greens and fairways would…
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RJ National GEO certified for record third time
Ransomes Jacobsen’s three-hole golf course, The RJ National, located at its European headquarters on the outskirts of Ipswich, has been re-certified by the Golf Environment Organisation (GEO). With this latest accolade, the RJ National becomes the first golf course in the UK to be awarded GEO Certified® status for commitment to sustainable development for a…
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Another venue more than trebles the size of its hole cups
Norwood Park Golf Centre in Nottinghamshire has become the latest golf club to use giant hole cups to attract juniors and beginners to the game. Instead of using the traditional four and a quarter inch diameter hole cup for golfers, the venue has installed holes with 15 inch diameters. The theory is that larger hole…
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BTME 2016 broke educational attendance records
BTME 2016 has been hailed as an unprecedented success after what has been described as ‘a superb few days’ in picturesque Harrogate for BIGGA’s annual turf care festival.