{"id":492219,"date":"2026-03-24T08:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T08:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/492219\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T08:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T08:02:08","slug":"nantwich-golfer-built-business-on-land-he-played-golf-on-as-a-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/492219\/","title":{"rendered":"Nantwich golfer built business on land he played golf on as a boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England Golf named the centre facility of the year for its &#8220;outstanding commitment to inclusivity, community impact, and redefining what a modern golf venue can be&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">To be recognised by the sport&#8217;s governing body meant the absolute world, said James Need, adding they had run family festivals, got local residents involved and worked to highlight the mental health benefits of the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sophie Need, who has a background in architecture and property development designed the site, after her husband pitched the idea on their first wedding anniversary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 33-year-old said she never anticipated it would become the family business, and for the first year of trade, the only staff were the couple and their baby daughter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;First day open, and we thought oh my gosh, we&#8217;ve got to actually run the golf centre now, we hadn&#8217;t even thought about that, we&#8217;d just concentrated on building it!&#8221; said James Need, 37.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England Golf named the centre facility of the year for its &#8220;outstanding commitment to inclusivity, community impact, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-492219","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\/492219","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=492219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}