Clubs & Resorts
Golf may need fewer institutions, not fewer golf courses
Royal Aberdeen Golf Club and the neighbouring Aberdeen Ladies Golf Club -- two separate institutions sharing the same Balgownie links -- are now formally one club: members voted in late August 2026 to integrate, and the change took legal effect on 1 September 2026. It's a small, specific merger. It's also a clean test case for a question UK club golf will keep running into: is the real constraint course supply, or duplicated institutional structure?