Cost of living crisis: Clubs must ‘not get complacent’ as plight deepens

With the price of everything from beer pump gas to fertiliser increasing, we caught up with Selby General Manager Tim Kent to ask how his club is navigating its way through the cost of living storm

It’s the expenses you don’t think about that throw you the most in this cost of living crisis. Food? Yes, we all know that’s on the up. Fuel? We can see it in on the boards at every petrol station forecourt.

But the gas that pumps the beer into your pint glass? Up by 40 per cent. The fertiliser that makes the fairways so green and luscious? Add on a few more digits.

If you can think of it, the price of buying it has risen – and it’s depleting your golf club’s resources every single day....