Birmingham's most prestigious golf club has secured its long term future in the city centre, providing a new lease of life to its members and golfers in the West Midlands. Edgbaston Golf Club has successfully negotiated a long term, 99 year lease, with Calthorpe Estates to retain control of its city centre golf course and historic clubhouse.

Golf and Italy were rarely mentioned in the same conversation until recent times, when the exploits of the Molinari Brothers winning the World Cup, and the emergence of the teenage sensation Matteo Manassero as Amateur Champion then as European Tour Winner changed everything.

The Hotchkin Course at The National Golf Centre, Woodhall Spa, has been ranked the 25th best golf course in the world by an authoritative new survey.

Burhill Golf Club will host up-and-coming tour professionals as the PGA Europro Tour, Europe's leading golf development tour, returns for a third successive year.

Two of golf's best-known brands have combined to create the perfect Christmas present for golfers in the UK. The offer - buy a SkyCaddie and receive a free fourball at a DeVere golf course - applies to the full SkyCaddie range, including SG2.5 and the new SGX.

Those are so many delightful areas of the country, and each has it?s crop of golf courses that demand to be played, the only problem is which of the many to play. Shropshire certainly has it's delights, Shrewsbury Golf Club at Condover, Church Stretton, Hill Valley, Llanymynech with it's spectacular views, Patsull Park and my old favourite, the Old Course at Hawkstone Park, one I can never resist playing on any visit.

On a beautiful sunny June morning, there can be very few places in the world to match the English countryside, and Dorset in particular. On such a day at Canford Magna it is hard to believe that you are on a golf course a few short miles from the centre of Bournemouth, it is so quiet and peaceful