{"id":465324,"date":"2026-03-09T04:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T04:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/465324\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T04:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T04:33:09","slug":"andy-murray-chips-in-as-investor-for-luxury-golf-brand-manors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/465324\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Murray chips in as investor for luxury golf brand Manors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Andy Murray has become the latest celebrity to invest in Manors, a fast-growing maker of golfing attire that has raised \u00a33 million to accelerate its push into the lucrative US market.<\/p>\n<p>The two-time Wimbledon champion has joined a shareholder register that includes Theo Walcott, the former Arsenal and England footballer, Nicholas Hoult, the actor, and Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly, the TV personalities known as Ant and Dec, after Redrice Ventures, of which Murray is an associate partner, led Manors\u2019 latest funding round.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/uk\/scotland\/article\/mens-style-old-school-sportswear-62trlp00m\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manors<\/a>, whose polo shirts sell for as much as \u00a3110, makes about 40 per cent of its sales in the United States and plans to use the \u00a33 million it has raised from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/business\/economics\/article\/redrice-ventures-fund-backed-by-british-business-bank-qwwjrnq3p\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Redrice<\/a> and other investors to \u201cfuel its next phase of international expansion\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   height=\"3567\" width=\"4610\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/8f66f3cb-976b-4a18-ad57-185df94f529e.jpg\" alt=\"Four men carrying golf bags climb a grassy hill overlooking the ocean.\" class=\"wp-image-20714103\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The London-based company was founded in 2019 by Jojo Regan, now 33, Luke Davies, 33, and Nick Watts, 29, who were frustrated with the lack of fashionable clothing for younger golfers. Three quarters of its sales are made directly through its website, but its clothes, shoes and accessories can also be found in Harrods and Selfridges.<\/p>\n<p>It has previously raised \u00a32 million in two tranches: one in 2023 and the other in 2024, which is when Ant and Dec first invested.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/topic\/andy-murray\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/topic\/andy-murray\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Murray<\/a>, 38, is one of the greatest British tennis players of the modern era. Since his retirement from the sport in 2024, the former world No 1 has filled his time honing his golf skills. He joked last year that \u201cmy kids think I\u2019m a golfer\u201d, because he plays so often.<\/p>\n<p>Murray was on the call when Manors first pitched to Redrice last year and said he \u201cimmediately bought into the passion and vision\u201d of the founders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe product is great, but on its own it\u2019s not enough,\u201d Murray said. \u201cThey\u2019ve gone beyond that and created something really special and I truly believe they can escalate from here to build a really successful business long-term.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   height=\"3990\" width=\"6565\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/f71f1aeb-4b4e-45e2-b85d-a30167b5e808.jpg\" alt=\"Four men in golf attire and carrying golf bags stand on a rocky cliff overlooking the ocean with small islands in the distance.\" class=\"wp-image-20714104\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Last year Manors made sales of \u00a32.7 million, up 167 per cent compared with 2024, and made its first underlying profit. The management is hopeful of repeating that growth this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve grown deliberately, building a brand that genuinely resonates culturally while staying relentlessly focused on the fundamentals,\u201d Regan, the managing director of Manors, said. \u201cThis investment allows us to scale with intent and continue pushing golf forward, on and off the course.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir Andy Murray has become the latest celebrity to invest in Manors, a fast-growing maker of golfing attire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-465324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}