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Here’s Xpos founder and Circana’s Golf Datatech VP, Phil Barnard, with an update on the UK’s golf retail sales results for October. The UK market was down 8.1% in value in October, with 17 out of 19 categories down. While golfers made the most of the drier weather, the Government’s Budget announcement is likely the…

The latest UK golf retail sales market data is OUT NOW. Watch Phil Barnard’s latest two minute video for category winners and losers, units vs value, ASP’s and inventory levels. Absolutely essential insights for everyone working in golf! Phil Barnard is a golf industry data expert and regular speaker. The founder of Xpos is also…

The September retail sales data for the UK golf market has been published by Circana’s Golf Datatech and we can see the market was down, overall, by -2%. This puts us -1.9% down year to date,  in line with expectations. Sales Summary Across the main categories, Clubs was the hardest hit, with sales down -7%.…

Here’s the latest retail sales data from Xpos founder, and Circana’s, Phil Barnard. Despite the poor start to the year, it’s good news this month. While the market is down on last year, June was still the second best month of the year so far in the UK, and the market has made significant improvements…

Phil  Barnard is founder of Xpos, the golf industry’s leading Epos solution, and Partner of Golf Datatech, part of the Circana market research company. At first glance, the UK golf retail sales figures for June may seem disappointing.  The market is down -1% which, although not ideal, it is the second-best month this year and…

It’s time for another UK golf market update. Using the latest data from Golf Datatech (a Circana company), with data up to the end of May, we can see that May was the first month in 2024 to be bigger than last year. Although only up +0.4% in value, as May is one of the…