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Foremost Golf has announced that Glenmuir will continue its title sponsorship of this year’s Foremost Golf Championship. To be played at The Oxfordshire Golf Club on Monday 27th June where Andrew George of Ely City will defend his title, the total prize fund of £8,500 will see the 2016 champion take home £2,500, including £1,500 in Glenmuir vouchers. The prize fund extends to 20th place but as an added incentive to participate, every Foremost member who plays in the Foremost Golf...

The International Golf Club London (ICG London), the first of its kind in the UK, is launching an exciting opportunity for golfers to play competitive events at championship courses in the south east region. The club is open to all golfers, regardless of ability, current membership status, or location, and offers members and guests the opportunity to enter weekly competitive tournaments at premier golfing venues around London and the south east at preferential rates. Venues already featured on the varied and impressive...

Danish company ECCO – a leading global manufacturer of innovative footwear – announces the expansion of its women’s ECCO Casual Hybrid range with the addition of five inspiring designs for Spring/Summer 2016. Joining the existing ECCO Casual Hybrid brogue model are sleek sneaker options, each with its own distinct materials combination. These include smooth, polly dot, lizard embossed, patent and yak leathers, as well as performance textiles. Among the array of comfort technologies inherent to each ECCO Casual Hybrid style are: Cushioning, highly-flexible...

Danish company ECCO – a leading global manufacturer of innovative footwear – announces the expansion of its acclaimed men’s ECCO Casual Hybrid range, with the introduction of several new colors for Spring/Summer 2016. Available in sleek sneaker and modern-classic brogue versions, the eye-catching ECCO Casual Hybrid facilitates a pleasant walk with its array of comfort technologies. These include: Cushioning, highly-flexible PU midsole with permanent memory ECCO Freedom Fit mixing a snug heel setting with a roomier forefoot area that allows toes to move...

Marriott Hotels Ltd has signed English European Tour professional Daniel Brooks as a Brand Ambassador. Under the terms of the one-year deal, the European Tour winner will wear the Marriott logo on both the front of his cap and his right sleeve, representing the renowned hotel group as he plays a global schedule in 2016. Marriott hold 11 Championship venues across the UK alone and the affiliation with Daniel highlights the brand’s continued commitment to the game. The 29 year-old from Basildon, who...

Leading golf footwear innovator, ECCO Golf, has announced its partnership with the Asian Tour as the Official Footwear Supplier. As the official sanctioning body for professional golf in Asia, the Asian Tour is responsible for the development of golf across the region, enhancing the careers of its members while remaining committed to upholding the integral values of the game. The partnership will see ECCO Golf’s 2016 collection receive significant exposure through the Tour’s multiple media platforms, including digital, online and print, as...

Carnoustie Golf Links, a regular host to The Open championship, has been awarded a major national accolade for its work in protecting native bumblebees. Representatives of the club attended the annual Golf Environmental Awards held by the Sports Turf Research Institute (STRI) in Harrogate, where they received the prestigious Operation Pollinator Award. The award was given in recognition of the work undertaken by Championship Course Head Greenkeeper, Craig Boath and his dedicated team who have developed habitats around the course that are...

Foremost Golf has announced an exciting addition to its already popular Elite Marketing Programme (EMP) with the launch of a new in-store interface that will provide its EMP members with bespoke, auto-populating advertising content. The innovative new interface system will serve as an extension of the existing personal golf services and retail marketing offered to Foremost EMP members by displaying relevant marketing material on monitors that will be strategically positioned in individual member shops. The monitors, which will be individually populated by...

Adventure Leisure Ltd, a subsidiary of the Burhill Golf and Leisure group (BGL), is pleased to announce the purchase of World of Golf in Sidcup, situated on the south-side of the A20, with the aim to re-launch the Centre this spring. The newly acquired Adventure Leisure facility boasts a 54-bay, covered driving range, short game practice area with a USGA specified putting green, large pitching and chipping area, and a bunker practice zone; all fully floodlit, allowing practice year-round. The Operations...

PING took home two major awards at the recent TGI Golf Awards dinner, with G30 named Product of the Year and the company recognised as Partner Supplier of the Year. Hosted at The Belfry, the two awards signal the latest in a string of accolades that PING has won as a result of its success in 2015, a year in which G30 was the number one selling driver, fairway, hybrid and iron in the UK market. The Product of the Year award...

PING today announced the launch of its Autumn/Winter 2016 men’s and ladies apparel collections, delivering the company’s most advanced technical  performance apparel range to date and reinforcing the long-standing commitment PING has to helping golfers play their best.  For the Autumn/Winter season, PING combines state-of-the-art performance led fabrics with luxury materials and craftsmanship to provide unrivalled quality and performance. Engineered to Play® through the Sensor Platform of performance fabric technologies, the collections deliver advancements in both thermal and lightweight apparel....

Burhill Golf and Leisure Ltd (BGL) are delighted to announce a significant £5,000,000 investment into the development of the newly branded Birchwood Park Golf and Country Club, currently Birchwood Park Golf Centre. Situated in Wilmington, Dartford, the venue will undergo a complete transformation of its health and fitness area to create the newly styled venue, set to launch at the beginning of 2017. Guy Riggott, Operations Director at BGL is positive about the development plans and what the revamped facility will be...

Leading golf footwear innovator ECCO Golf has announced the addition of Swedish European Tour player Peter Hanson to its already impressive list of ambassadors. Hanson has amassed 13 wins worldwide since turning pro in 1998 and been a part of two winning European Ryder Cup sides. He recorded five top-20 finishes on the European Tour in 2015, including a tie for seventh at the BMW International Open and a tie for 13th at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. “ECCO has an outstanding reputation...

Burhill Golf Club, the flagship venue for Burhill Golf and Leisure Ltd (BGL), is pleased to welcome their new Head Professional, Ben Rosser, who will join the club on 1st March, 2016. Ben has been working within the golf industry since 2003, and has spent 11 years with BGL at the neighbouring Hoebridge Golf Centre; one of the most extensive golf facilities in the South of England. “I have always wanted to make a career in golf, and I feel I’ve taken...

Softspikes®, the world’s leading cleat brand and number-one cleat across the globe, has revealed its new Tour Lock Insert System which was designed and developed on the company’s popular Fast Twist® thread and receptacle technology. The system, which will be used in FootJoy’s flagship D.N.A., FreeStyle and HydroLite shoes in 2016, utilises an ultra-low receptacle profile that has been engineered to measure only 4mm to bring golfers closer to the ground. The new technology also features Softspikes’® new patent pending Cross System...

Leading golf footwear innovator, ECCO Golf, has announced that Global Marketing Manager Jesper Thuen has been promoted to the position of Head of ECCO Golf, Asia. Thuen, a former touring professional, has worked for ECCO Golf as a marketer for over a decade, having started his relationship with the brand as a sales representative in 2002. As Head of ECCO Golf, Asia, Jesper will be responsible for stimulating the growth of the brand in some of the world’s up-and-coming golf markets including...

Eaton announced today that its Golf Pride Grips Division is introducing an all-new oversized putter series called TOUR SNSRTM. The new grips feature larger Tour-proven shapes that are engineered with innovative SNSR material that delivers unsurpassed Tour-level feel and feedback. The new TOUR SNSR Series features a soft-tuned rubber formulation that gives these grips an extraordinary feel, and encourages a lighter grip pressure that golfers seek in creating a smooth stroke. The new SNSR compound also enhances Tour-level feedback into the...

PING today introduced two new Anser putters that advance the legendary Anser design handcrafted decades earlier by founder Karsten Solheim. The new TR 1966 Anser and Anser 2 arrive as PING is celebrating the iconic Anser model’s 50th birthday.  In developing the new putters, PING engineers relied on 3D scans of the original Anser and Anser 2 to analyse the subtle contours and radius details that Karsten personally shaped into the designs using his mill and hand files. Each of...

Foremost professionals once again enjoyed record ball sales in the run up to Christmas thanks to the continued success of the popular annual Titleist Ball Personalisation promotion. With 2015 signifying the sixth year that Foremost has supported the promotion, a record number of 328 of Foremost’s Elite Marketing Programme (EMP) professionals took part in promoting the campaign to their customers. Since the inception of the promotion back in 2010 when 140 EMP professionals participated, ball sales across the group have grown by...

  Leading golf footwear innovator ECCO Golf has announced the signing of Australian LPGA Tour player Minjee Lee as a brand ambassador. Lee, who will compete in the new women’s ECCO BIOM Hybrid 2 model and showcase the company’s logo on her collar, claimed her first LPGA Tour victory at the 2015 Kingsmill Championship and currently sits 18th in the Rolex Women's World Golf Rankings. Having turned professional in 2014 after a standout amateur career which included winning the 2012 U.S. Girls' Junior...

Nippon Shaft for the first time will bring to market two new types of steel shafts that tour pros already have used to win a combined 14 events on the PGA TOUR and the Japan Golf Tour. Nippon Shaft has announced the release of the N.S. PRO MODUS³ Tour 105 and N.S. PRO MODUS³ Tour 125 for sale to the public. The release of the two shafts is the outcome of four years of Nippon Shaft’s work with Tour professionals, who...

European Tour stars Lee Westwood, Andy Sullivan and Brandon Stone have all signed multi-year agreements to continue playing PING golf equipment. Having amassed 42 worldwide professional victories since turning pro in 1993, long-time PING staff player and former World number one Lee Westwood’s most recent win came at the Indonesian Masters in April last year. As one of Europe’s most decorated golfers of all time, Lee has garnered a reputation as an exceptional ball striker, with his consistent play earning him a...

Redbourn Golf Club, a BGL (Burhill Golf and Leisure) club set in the picturesque outskirts of Harpenden, Hertfordshire, is proud to announce that two of its junior members have been named county Captains for 2016. Harry Bigham, aged 15 and member of Redbourn for the last nine years, has been named 2016 Hertfordshire Under 16 Boys’ Captain. The Captaincy follows a successful year for the +1 handicapper, having won both the Men’s Club Championship, and the prestigious Under 14s Amateur Stroke Play...

Golf Marketing Services Ltd (GMS), Europe’s leading Golf PR and Marketing agency, has announced the launch of a Player Management Division, with an initial three player stable of former standout English amateur Tomasz Anderson, European Tour winner Daniel Brooks and established professional Thomas Shadbolt. With its unrivalled golf PR and marketing expertise, GMS will offer a bespoke range of services to its portfolio of professional golfers, with an emphasis on media communications, brand building and sponsorship acquisition. Anderson, who only turned professional...

With a focus on providing maximum forgiveness with as much speed as possible, PING today introduced the new G series – the company’s latest game-changing innovations that will provide measurable performance gains without sacrificing any important attributes. The new G range includes three driver options -- standard, SF Tec (Straight Flight Technology) and LS Tec (Low-Spin Technology) -- along with three fairway woods (standard, SF Tec and Stretch), hybrids and irons.  PING has also announced the introduction of G Crossover, a...

Burhill Golf Club, Walton-on-Thames, is delighted to announce that two of its current members, both of whom are past Junior Organisers, were honoured with prestigious awards at the recent England Golf coaching conference. Terry Casey, who has recently retired as the manager of the England men’s team, was presented with the Outstanding Contribution to Coaching award, while Steve Parrish, the England Golf South Region Manager, was named as the Volunteer Manager of the year. Held at St. George’s Park, the English Football...

In his 27th event on the European Tour Brandon Stone, aged 22, claims victory on the European Tour in a roller coaster final round! This is Brandon’s first full year on Tour after securing a card through the Challenge Tour last year. He had his first professional win on the Sunshine tour in Cape Town at the end of 2015. In play this week:   G30  10.5 (small minus)                Graphite Design AD BB7x tip 1"                  45.25 cut              ID8 White 1/2 Cord +1 D4                                                                                                                                                                             ...

Foremost Golf has been named as a Best Trading Partner by financial analysis experts Plimsoll in their latest examination of the UK’s Golf Equipment Industry. With both their turnover and profit having increased consistently over the last five years, Foremost featured as one of the best performing companies in nine categories and were awarded a financial rating of ‘Strong’ which is the highest accolade awarded by Plimsoll, meaning the company is in excellent financial health. Plimsoll are widely regarded as industry leaders...

The popularity of Nippon Shaft on the world's major golf tours continued to explode in 2015, with 106 players on the PGA TOUR and European Tour combined utilising steel shafts built by the Japan-based golf shaft manufacturer. That equates to a 66 percent increase over the previous year when 70 major Tour pros relied on Nippon Shaft, which signifies an impressive 220 percent increase over 2013 when 48 players used Nippon Shaft products. "Nippon Shaft is proud and gratified that its product...

Burhill Golf Club, Walton-on-Thames, is delighted to announce that its New Course has been chosen to host Regional Qualifying for golf’s most famous event, The Open Championship, starting in 2016. Playing 6,957 yards to a par of 72, Burhill’s New Course joins a plethora of five-star venues including Frilford Heath, Little Aston, Panmure and Fairhaven as one of 13 Regional Qualifying venues around the United Kingdom and will play host until 2020. Since opening in 2001, the New Course’s undulating, fast greens,...