Link Golf UK · About us
Public golf, run for the town it belongs to
Link Golf UK runs seven public golf courses, from West London to Middlesbrough, each as a community interest company. Every course has its own page, its own team and its own tee times.
We set the business up in 2019 for one reason, which was to stop the unnecessary closure of golf clubs.
Andrew Terry, co-founder, writing in The Golf Business, October 2026
Where it began
Marland, Rochdale, 2019
A council course facing closure, and two golfers who stepped in.
It began at Marland, where Andrew Terry learned to play with his dad and Joe Jackson played with his grandad.
The council course was losing around £200,000 a year and facing closure. Marland Golf C.I.C. took it on in April 2019, and within months the course was sustainable.
Heaton Park followed in 2020, and there are now seven courses. Read the story year by year.
How we run the courses
Back into the course, first
We take on the running, the investment and the risk, and the course stays public: open to everyone, with what it earns going back into it.
On average we invest about £500,000 in a course in its first two years, most of it on the things golfers notice: drainage, greens, bunkers and machinery, then the clubhouse. A better course brings more people, and more people pay for the next improvement.
3,500
children took free coaching with our PGA professionals this year
Open to every child
At every course:
- Free golf for anyone aged 16 and under
- Free coaching, 52 weeks a year
- Equipment provided
Each course is a community interest company, so what it earns goes back into the course and into free golf for local children.
Beyond a round
Passes, ranges and days out
One Annual Pass works at all seven courses, and you join through the course you play most. London Airlinks, Tapton Park and Middlesbrough have driving ranges with covered bays and shot tracking, reached from their course pages. Societies, groups and company days are arranged with the club itself.
Questions
About Link Golf UK
Two founders, Andrew Terry and Joe Jackson, who both learned the game at Marland. Andrew is a PGA professional with more than 25 years in golf, and Joe brings finance and business turnaround. Meet the team.
Each course is. Link Golf UK takes on public golf courses and sets each one up in its own entity as a community interest company, and the CIC is the social enterprise. What a course earns goes back into the course, the people who work there and the community around it. What that means.
No. Link Golf UK is a business and has to pay its way like any other. What makes each course a social enterprise is why it exists and where the money goes: every course is set up as its own community interest company, so what it earns is held for the course and its community rather than taken out.
Choose your course on our courses. Each course has its own page with its own tee times, Annual Pass and enquiry forms.
Every course has its own team, phone line and inbox. Pick your course on the contact page and your message goes straight to that team.