Golf Club Talk UK

In this episode we explore and celebrate the R&A Women in Golf Leadership programme. Leighton and Eddie are joined by four women from the industry who are either driving, mentoring or participating in the programme. Jackie Davidson – Director of Golf Development at R&A Vicky Cuming – Mentor/Coach Bee Craft – Golfbreaks.com and delegate from previous cohort Giulia Ferroni – Leeds Golf Design and delegate from current cohort The conversation explores the motivations for setting up the programme, what's involved, how it works and how women can get involved. The delegates tell their stories of success, discovery and how it's being applied in their careers. It's quite an inspirational conversation and one that shines a light on a vital part of our industry. https://www.randa.org/ www.golfbreaks.com www.leedsgolfdesign.com A big thank you to our partner – Top Tracer! www.toptracer.com Visit our new website!: www.golfclubtalk.uk

Anna McLean from Crieff GC and David Gemmell from Brora GC discuss the benefits and challenges of being near prestigious golf venues like Gleneagles and Royal Dornoch. They explore how it can grow revenue but also impact culture and member experience. David MacFarlane highlights the importance of positive promotion for clubs. The conversation touches on effective marketing strategies and adapting to changing markets in the golf industry.

In our first episode of Trending Topics, we welcome Matt Draper - Club, County, and Membership Director, Gavin Anderson - Club, County and Membership Operations Manager and Jeremy Tomlinson - CEO Jeremy gives us his view on where England Golf sees itself currently as well as his thoughts on where the Golf industry sits. He also talks about the "Respect in Golf" campaign. The team then introduce some of the key areas and people that will be built on and covered in future episodes, such as sustainability, respect in Golf, the independent Golfer and your club's governance to name a few. If you know people that are governing at your club that would gain some benefit by listening, ask them to tune into future episodes, or to find out more visit the website. https://www.englandgolf.org/ Matt Draper - Linkedin Gavin Anderson - Linkedin

Olympic athlete Kriss Akabusi discusses how golf helps his mental health and competitiveness, shares leadership advice. Jim Croxton gives insights on challenges faced by Greenkeeping industry post winter, workforce development, and importance of communication for success in golf.

A snappy episode this month where we welcome Darren Wood from GCMA and Barry Ersoz from Energy Direct Group. Barry shares some great tips around Energy procurement and how to ensure youy're paying the best possible price, including being aware of commission! There's also some good tips on saving energy and therefore money at your facility, along with working towards carbon neutrality. Barry also talks about renewable energy and how this can help clubs to save money now and in the longer term. Gete more information here: https://energydirectgroup.com/ www.gcma.org.uk

Stuart Finlay, GM of Prestbury Golf Club, shares personal challenges and club accomplishments. Denny Corby discusses US golf club trends. The episode touches on environmental efforts, club management, cancer battles, and the evolution of golf clubs in a family-friendly direction.

So we're 6 months on from a very successful GCMA conference and what have people taken away?? We get some great guests on to talk about their experience, highlights, but most importantly how they will take the knowledge and experience forward. Leighton is joined by Tom Brooke (GCMA CEO), Kevin Fish of CCL, Sean Boyle (GM - Chesterfield GC) and Louis Booth (GM - Lincoln GC) The knowledge gained from Conference only works when you put it into practice and there's some interesting conversation into how this can be done and some examples along the way. Thanks to all guests. www.gcma.org.uk https://ccl.services/ https://www.lincolngc.co.uk/ https://www.chesterfieldgolfclub.co.uk/

Leighton is joined by Torbjorn (Toby) Johansson to get a "State of the nation" from Club Managers Association of Europe (CMAE) and what's happening with education. He also eludes to the CMAE conference coming up in London in September as well as an update on what's happening in Swedish Golf. Eddie then finds out how Paul Jansen Golf Design and Himalayas Golf are diversifying on the shift with golf entertainment, in association with Dave Peltz. Paul also shares his career journey, growing up in South Africa working in the United States and now settled in Canada - his two secret golf destinations in the UK are ? Enjoy the listen https://www.cmaeurope.org/ https://jansengolf.com/about https://www.himalayasgolf.com/ Thanks to our partner - Leeds Golf Design https://www.leedsgolfdesign.com/

After a catch up from Leighton & Eddie, Eddie has the pleasure of speaking to Iain Carter, Golf Correspondent at the BBC. Iain a speaker, writer and author has a fascinating take on Golf through his history around the game and up close with some of the best in the sport. Iain has also released a new book - "Golf Wars". This is a story about LIV Golf's battle for power in the Golfing landscape, spotlighting some of the key players along the way. It also looks at how the PGA Tour fights back against LIV and how the saga is unfolding. A highly recommended read. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/golf-wars-9781399410168/ A book recommendation from Eddie: https://www.unreasonablehospitality.com/

On this episode of GCMA Insights, Leighton talks to Darren Wood of GCMA and Alastair Sinclair of Play More Golf. The discussion is a "State of the nation" chat on where club membership sits currently, including the positive position a lot of clubs and venues still see themselves in as well as some possible impending challenges around cost of living, moving further away from the COVID boom and time challenges for people. Do clubs need to be quicker on their feet, adapt and be more flexible?? Listen here. www.gcma.org.uk https://playmoregolf.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/alastairsinclair/