Meet the course manager: Andrew Orr
The course manager at Ralston Golf Club talks about greenkeeping around increased footfall and how he gets the best out of the course’s greens.
The course manager at Ralston Golf Club talks about greenkeeping around increased footfall and how he gets the best out of the course’s greens.
Fentons of Bourne has been a distributor of Homburg drain-cleaning equipment for the past 28 years. Now, with the introduction of two new dedicated machines, Homburg is entering the golf sector.
When a Redexim Top-Brush was unloaded from the trailer for a working demonstration at Woolley Park in 2021, head greenkeeper John Rowbottom was so impressed that it never went back on!
In order to meet with the increasing demand for conservation mixtures, DLF Seeds has announced expansions to the Pro Flora wild flower and Colour Boost amenity flower collections.
German fertiliser manufacturer COMPO EXPERT has announced the appointment of former Agrovista Amenity product development manager, Neil Pullen, as its new product manager.
Nitrogen influences shoot and root growth, shoot density, cold and drought hardiness, colour, recuperative potential and disease susceptibility.
Based on naturally occurring ingredients, Headland Amenity’s New-Way Weedspray provides a fast-acting alternative to glyphosate when it comes to grass, broad-leaved weed and moss control.
We are about to start a new season for irrigation, and that means all those niggles and issues you ignored last season will be back to bite you … unless action is taken.
Vanmac has a wide range of quality solutions to cutting around the course, thanks to the Progressive range of trailed and mounted rotary finishing mowers.
Campey Turf Care Systems has appointed 15 new dealers across the Middle East and Pan-Asia as part of a new rationalised international dealer network.
The Welsh government has granted golf clubs more than £100,000 to tackle climate change.
Smith, from Cranleigh G&CC and Chelsfield Lakes GC, details how work has changed in the last two years and why giving up a job as an electrician to pursue a career in greenkeeping turned out to be a great decision.
We look at two leading machines showcasing hybrid mowing technology in a riding greensmower and all-electric technology in a pedestrian mower, exclusively available from distributor Reesink Turfcare.
Storms Dudley, Eunice and Franklin all contrived to make a bunker renovation at Chippenham Golf Club challenging for Durabunker – but the first phase of the project was still completed.
The intricacies of selecting and installing the right irrigation network are no more pronounced than for West Sussex GC, an SSSI, which recently completed the installation of a full course Toro irrigation system.
Iain Barr, course manager at Largs GC, Ayrshire, has known and used Wiedenmann deep aerators since they were launched 30 years ago, and has had close association with six machines.
The patented SISIS Javelin Aer-Aid 1500 machine greatly increases the speed of the aeration process by directly injection air into the rootzone at a fast working rate, creating thousands of fissures.
Greenkeepers at Golf House Club, Elie in Scotland have found a 95-year-old packet of cigarettes in a bottle, which contained a message written by greenkeepers in the 1920s, hidden on the course.
Suicide prevention charity Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) has announced that it will be attending turf management events throughout 2022.
With Otterbine’s Fountain Glo™ colour changing lights there is no need for the lights to go out when the sun goes down.
Here are some GripClad anti-slip tread frequently answered questions.