Meet the head greenkeeper: Craig Bayne
Bayne, from Fairmont St Andrews, talks about creating naturally healthy greens and his plans to replicate Fairmont’s 2020 success as a host club for the European Tour this year.
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A day in the life: Stuart Adams
The course manager at Cardigan Golf Club, a course built on elevated ground with spectacular views of Cardigan Bay from every hole, takes us through his average day.
New lease of life for machinery fleet at Chorley Golf Club
Chorley Golf Club has got its 125-year anniversary year off to a good start by updating its machinery fleet.
Blaukorn praised for delivering a fast, but long-lasting, colour boost
Blaukorn has been praised by the head groundsman at AFC Telford United for delivering a fast, but long-lasting, colour boost to their stadium pitch.
BTME Review: Redexim
The Redexim UK team marked the proud milestone of 40 years in business at BTME 2022 in Harrogate.
BTME Review: Vanmac
At BTME 2022, Jeremy Vincent updated members of the press on two years of expansions at Vanmac.
BTME Review: GKB
GKB Machines used BTME 2022 as a launch platform for a brand-new addition to its natural turf maintenance range, in the form of the Verticollector.
Dennis G34D is brilliant for the Baggies
Rob Lane, head groundsman at The Hawthorns stadium, recently decided that a Dennis G34D cylinder was the mower that would help him achieve that all important pitch-perfect-presentation.
EcoBunker helps create ‘land art’ at Rumanza
The new Rumanza course in Multan, Pakistan, is using the EcoBunker engineered bunker edging system as a key part of its design.
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.
Top-Brush improves play, presentation and plant health at Woolley Park GC
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!
How to optimise nitrogen inputs
Nitrogen influences shoot and root growth, shoot density, cold and drought hardiness, colour, recuperative potential and disease susceptibility.
How to maintain your irrigation system
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.
Progressive – delivering contour mowers the way they should be designed!
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.
Meet the group course manager: Chris Smith
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.
Toro delivers the most sustainable tech for your course
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.
Complete confidence in after sales takes fourth Wiedenmann Terra Spike to Largs GC
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.
SISIS Javelin Aer-Aid relieves compaction
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.
Bring your course to life at night with Otterbine’s lighting systems
With Otterbine’s Fountain Glo™ colour changing lights there is no need for the lights to go out when the sun goes down.
GripClad Q&A
Here are some GripClad anti-slip tread frequently answered questions.
A day in the life: Keith Burgon
The head greenkeeper at Eyemouth Golf Club, an 18-hole cliff-top links that provides spectacular views over the East Berwickshire coastline, takes us through his average day.
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