Here’s a round-up of some heartening stories involving golf clubs, their members and their suppliers, and how they have gone the extra mile in the last month, and in doing so have ensured we can look to this industry with pride.
The course manager at Oake Manor Golf Club in Somerset, a venue that offers an 18-hole course, a nine-hole course and a practice area, takes us through his average day.
David Houghton, managing director of Htn Contracting, gives his update of what the company was up to in the first three months of 2020.
UK golf courses are set to find out this weekend when they can reopen following the Covid-19 lockdown, with some warning the notice period could be less than 24 hours.
The Daily Telegraph has revealed that golf courses in the UK could reopen on May 7, while the BBC is reporting that it could be May 11, as golf clubs in Guernsey and Jersey will reopen this week.
As many UK golf courses hope to reopen in May, one hopes to open for the first time during that month.
The chairman of the UK Parliament’s All-Party Group for Golf has given the strongest indication yet that golf courses could reopen shortly.
Plant Growth Regulators (PGRs) are a longstanding programme component for those maintaining all types of amenity grassland and managed amenity turf.
Royal Liverpool GC, which has hosted the Open Championship twice in the last 15 years, is nearing completion of the first phase of major course changes designed to retain it as a regular host of the Open.
Muir-Of-Ord Golf Club, located a few miles north of Inverness in Scotland, has chosen to invest in Toro for the first time, purchasing a ProCore 648 pedestrian aerator to enable quality aeration across the whole course.
The head greenkeeper – and now estate manager of Mortonhall Golf Club takes us through the challenges involved in maintaining one of Scotland’s premier golfing venues, located hundreds of feet above sea level.
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