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Meet the course manager: Paul Armour
Paul Armour, course manager at Gullane Golf Club in East Lothian, discusses the realities of introducing autonomous mowing, how his team responded and why he believes the technology will be a familiar sight on golf courses in the years ahead.
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This is Swaffham Golf Club’s measured route to better turf
Swaffham Golf Club course manager Colin Hutt on managing free-draining chalk profiles with limited irrigation, and why soil sampling and annual programme reviews matter as much as the products themselves.
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Every Mallorcan GEO-certified course is at the same resort
Mallorca’s largest golf resort has added autonomous fairway mowing at Son Muntaner, a closed-loop orange grove and carbon-neutral status at its Sheraton – all steps towards a 12 percent cut in golf emissions by 2028.
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John Deere supports back-to-back championships at Birkdale and Lytham
Course managers Sean McLean and Paul Smith on tripling their teams, 4am starts, a full-time dealer technician on site and the electric greens mowers that arrived just months before The Open.
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How The Belfry is watering a Tour venue in a drought
With drought squeezing water resources across the UK, The Belfry’s greenkeeping team is presenting a DP World Tour championship course using nothing but treated wastewater from the resort – and says the surfaces are as good as ever.
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Kress puts autonomous mowing to the test at Portugal Invitational
As official partner of the inaugural event at The Els Club Vilamoura, Kress brought 75 turf professionals to the Algarve to see robotic mowers working on a live course – not on a demo stand.
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Husqvarna robotic mowers take on the Brabazon ahead of 2026 British Masters
Fifteen CEORA robotic mowers will cut The Belfry’s championship fairways overnight during the 2026 Husqvarna British Masters, supported by a dedicated team working 8pm to 6am. Seven units are already maintaining the venue in the build-up, alongside battery-powered handheld equipment used across tees, bunkers and course detailing.
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Fine fescue and firm surfaces – Bernardus readies for the Solheim Cup
Bernardus’ superintendent Niall Richardson on why the Dutch venue’s final preparations for September’s Solheim Cup are about expressing an identity built since 2018, not reinventing a course for one week.
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The Scandinavian Golf Club opens up its fleet buying, picking Baroness
The Scandinavian Golf Club’s course manager Russell Anderson explains why abandoning package deals in favour of open testing led the Top 50-ranked Danish venue to four LM551B fairway mowers.
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Drought leaves greenkeepers defenceless as badgers tear up irrigated turf
Golf courses across England have reported damage caused by badgers recently, because irrigated turf is now the only diggable ground on many sites. With no soil-acting insecticides available and nematodes unviable in these conditions, course managers have almost no options.
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Warwick Racecourse relies on Mansfield Sand for year-round track consistency
Warwick Racecourse head groundsman Guy Woodward explains why Mansfield Sand’s rootzone and fibre-reinforced products are central to keeping the jumps track raceable through winter rain and summer drought.
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Warrington club ‘gutted’ as off-road bikes tear up fairways and greens
Staff at Poulton Park arrived at the golf club to find tyre marks and torn turf across the course after riders drove motorbikes over fairways and greens. CCTV has been passed to Cheshire Police.
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Overseeder tackles wear on tight layout at Pollok Golf Club
Pollok Golf Club course manager Chris McGhee has taken a Redexim Overseeder 3D 1575 to walk-off areas, tees, aprons and grass paths at the Glasgow club, and is reporting excellent germination, minimal seed waste and positive member feedback.
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Whalebone Golf Club saves five hours a day with ECHO robotic ball collection and mowing
Whalebone Golf Club in Romford has installed ECHO robotic ball collection and mowing alongside GroundTech’s Drop Pit wash return system — freeing greenkeepers for work on the course.
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Greenkeeper Simon Olver named new R&A agronomist
The R&A Sustainable Agronomy Service has announced the appointment of Simon Olver as agronomist, GB&I.
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Forest Green Rovers invests in Kress equipment
Forest Green Rovers Football Club has invested in Kress battery-powered equipment.



