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James Whitlock

Features. Finds the person and the decision behind the business story: profiles, long reads, investigations and sector trends.

Destinations

Links golf tourism: an honest look at scarcity, season and price

Scarcity and a narrow selling window set the price of links golf. Both need protecting rather than exploiting.

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Destinations

Photography does not fill tee sheets. Destinations sell access, itineraries and certainty, through channels that can be counted afterwards.

6 min read August 4, 2026

Destinations

Peak weeks sell themselves. What a destination keeps at the end of the year is decided by the months on…

6 min read August 4, 2026

Destinations

Bundling a bed with a tee time is easy. Making the bundle profitable, selling it through the right channel and…

7 min read August 4, 2026

Destinations

Operators sell certainty rather than golf. Inside the itineraries, allocations and net rates, and what a venue is really agreeing…

6 min read August 4, 2026

People

Minutes, rules and regulators: the quiet role that keeps a golf club legal, solvent and on time.

6 min read August 4, 2026

Destinations

Rooms, rounds, catering and events pull in different directions at a resort. Here is how the mix is built and…

6 min read August 4, 2026

People

Coaching is only part of the job. Today's club professional runs retail, programmes and often the venue itself.

6 min read August 4, 2026

People

The real lanes into working in golf, from tee sheet to turf: what each role involves and how careers move…

6 min read August 4, 2026

People

Corporate days, society bookings and opens all need organisers. Here is how that becomes a living.

6 min read July 18, 2026