What public golf gives back
Courses kept open, free coaching for children and a Community Project of the Year award: the social side of what we do.
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Journal
Andrew Terry’s journal
Writing from the running of golf clubs, in Andrew’s own words, newest first. The newest piece: The Fence Is Not the Answer.
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Earlier pieces
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Andrew’s writing on the course, the clubhouse and the people, newest first.
Middlesbrough Municipal, before and after
What changed at a council course in Teesside, set out as before and after.
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Tapton Park: £650,000 in, turnover from £625,000 to £1.4 million
What two years and £650,000 of investment did for a council course in Chesterfield.
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Almost every club that closes could have stayed open
What beats them is never one big disaster that everyone can point at. It’s the slow arithmetic of decisions deferred year after year and nobody stepping in early enough to stop the pattern.
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Does a golf club need a PGA professional? Part two
Link Club is exploring ways to support and help grow a PGA pro's income and impact
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Introducing Link Club
Taking what we have built at Link Golf UK into private members' golf
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Manjaros Kitchen and Cocktails opens at Middlesbrough Municipal Golf Centre
I’ve been in golf a long time and it’s not often I see a golf club on a Saturday night looking like it did at Middlesbrough Municipal last night when Manjaros Kitchen and Cocktails opened its doors.
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An Incredible Week at Wentworth
Winning the Golf Foundation's Community Project of the Year at the BMW PGA Championship and what it means for what comes next
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I Thought I Could Run The Golf Club Better Than They Could. I Was Half Right.
240 players in an open competition, the busiest the club had been in years and the only feedback I got was about the car park.
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We Tried to Turn Every Golf Course Into Wentworth.
We thought we could roll the Wentworth blueprint out at every course we took on and what a hybrid parkland moorland course in Manchester taught us about getting it wrong.
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Before You Put the Membership Price Up, Read This
Price increases rarely drive revenue. Here is what actually does, from three months of conversations with clubs across the country.
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The PGA Professional Is About to Become the Most Valuable Person at Your Golf Club
We are giving the pro a state of the art swing room, selling his consumables for him at zero commission and paying him a retainer on top. He gets his time back and the members finally get the expertise they have been paying for.
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I Had to Open the Curtains Myself
What one morning in a south Manchester clubhouse taught me about why golf clubs lose the members they just spent a fortune recruiting.
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A Sleeping Giant
What months of conversations with golf clubs has taught us about where we can add the most value
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The Golf Course Is The Product
A club in the North East went from 300 members to over 700 in four years and the foundation of all of it was the condition of the greens.
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It's not just your course that's struggling
The last few months have been tough for golf in the UK. There’s no getting away from it.
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Link Golf UK: What We’re Building Next
Our primary focus for 2026 is straightforward: Introduce 10,000 new people to golf.
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