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Golf Industry News - Melanoma Fund

The Melanoma Fund is launching a sponsored sunboard scheme to get free sunscreen dispensers into 100 golf clubs this year, complieenting their educational resources, to benefit the wellbeing of members and greenkeepers

Members of a Kent golf club have been offered discounted screening sessions to raise awareness of the risk of skin cancer in the sport.

Golfers should ditch baseball-style caps and wear wide-brimmed bucket hats, experts say, after a study found that playing the game more than doubles the risk of developing skin cancer.

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