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Meet the golf course manager: Simon White

Meet the golf course manager: Simon White Updated

🕔10:10, 24.Jan 2019

The Chase Golf Club is one of the most picturesque courses in Staffordshire. We speaks to its course manager about how a grass exchange programme has reduced inputs and improved surface quality.

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BTME returns to Harrogate next month – and it will be BIGGA than ever

BTME returns to Harrogate next month – and it will be BIGGA than ever Updated

🕔07:44, 28.Dec 2018

During BTME 2018 BIGGA revealed that the annual exhibition would be drastically transformed for 2019. A whole host of innovations and new offerings were coming. And now we know what they are.

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Meet the head greenkeeper: Mike Davie

Meet the head greenkeeper: Mike Davie Updated

🕔14:24, 25.Dec 2018

Working at Hazel Grove Golf Club in Cheshire, Mike talks about how he improved the course’s bunkers with a limited number of staff and what he has done to provide mental health support to greenkeepers in the industry.

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A day in the life: Paul Staples

A day in the life: Paul Staples Updated

🕔14:18, 23.Dec 2018

Paul is the head greenkeeper at Broadstone Golf Club in Dorset. The venue consistently features in top 100 lists of UK golf courses.

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How can turf managers provide a top quality surface during the winter months?

How can turf managers provide a top quality surface during the winter months? Updated

🕔08:53, 22.Dec 2018

Golf is a year round sport, and players’ expectations (unrealistic as they may be) for quality playing surfaces, remain the same in the depths of winter as they are in the height of summer.

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Is it time you ‘cold seeded’?

Is it time you ‘cold seeded’? Updated

🕔07:00, 21.Dec 2018

‘Cold seeding’ is overseeding in late autumn or early spring. The technique could help greenkeepers combat the loss of newly established plants as a result of cutting heights being reduced too soon after establishment.

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A day in the life: Geoff Smith

A day in the life: Geoff Smith Updated

🕔06:22, 30.Nov 2018

Geoff is the course manager at Abridge Golf Club. The venue is set in 160 acres of parkland and offers breathtaking views of the Essex countryside.

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The major upgrade to Stoke Park Country Club’s golf course

The major upgrade to Stoke Park Country Club’s golf course Updated

🕔06:12, 29.Nov 2018

The Buckinghamshire venue has created uniformity on a 27-hole layout that had experienced 100 years of tinkering, plus it has dealt with stone contamination in the bunkers.

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How Carnoustie prepared for this year’s Open

How Carnoustie prepared for this year’s Open

🕔08:01, 28.Nov 2018

Carnoustie hosted this year’s Open Championship amid sweltering conditions. GreenKeeping speaks to its links superintendent, Sandy Reid, to find out what they did.

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New product review: the lighting rig

New product review: the lighting rig Updated

🕔19:56, 27.Nov 2018

If shade is causing problems for your turf, there is now a solution, writes Renata Mundim.

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Q&A with Craig Boath

Q&A with Craig Boath Updated

🕔08:14, 16.Nov 2018

Craig Boath is the head greenkeeper at Carnoustie Golf Links.

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A day in the life: Antony Kirwan

A day in the life: Antony Kirwan Updated

🕔07:29, 31.Oct 2018

Antony is the course manager at Romford GC in Essex. The Open qualifying venue was designed by James Braid and lies just 18 miles from the centre of London.

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How do you control earthworms without chemicals?

How do you control earthworms without chemicals? Updated

🕔18:00, 30.Oct 2018

With chemical control of earthworms consigned to history, agronomist Emma Beggs looks at ways to reduce the problem of casts on sports surfaces.

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Do greenkeepers just simply ‘cut grass’?

Do greenkeepers just simply ‘cut grass’? Updated

🕔20:21, 21.Oct 2018

As most people are experienced in mowing a lawn, there’s an assumption from many that all greenkeepers do is ‘cut grass’. This attitude displays deep ignorance of the know-how of the average greenkeeper, writes John Dempsey PhD.

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Meet the golf course manager: Rob Ransome

Meet the golf course manager: Rob Ransome Updated

🕔20:04, 11.Oct 2018

The course manager of Eaton Golf Club in Norfolk talks about how the thatch removal programme his team has implemented has led to increased consistency in the greens.

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