Nearly half of all the available exhibition space at the recently-renamed Harrogate Convention Centre for BTME 2018 has already been sold, according to the British and International Golf Greenkeepers Association (BIGGA), which hosts the event. Before the 2017 exhibition had even closed, BIGGA had already sold 950 square metres of space at BTME 2018. That amounts to 25 per cent of…

The British & International Golf Greenkeepers Association (BIGGA) will discuss the launch of a brand new chemical group and worldwide volunteering opportunities at its central England regional conference on March 1. The event, at Kings Norton Golf Club, Birmingham, will also provide the most up-to-date education opportunities available to the region’s greenkeepers and among the…

This year is set to be an exciting one for GGM Groundscare and Kubota as the two leading groundcare machinery specialists celebrate a 40 year landmark working in partnership together and the announcement that GGM is further expanding its operations with the orange liveried manufacturer in the North West. GGM’s and Kubota originally joined forces…

John Ledwidge, grounds manager for reigning Premier League champions Leicester City FC, believes that his new range of Pellenc battery powered equipment offers his staff a safer, healthier and higher performing alternative to petrol powered products. From a team that spent the majority of the 2014/15 season close to the bottom of the table and…

Allan Patterson, estates and courses manager at Trump Turnberry, will be among the speakers at the BIGGA Scotland Golf Industry Conference 2017. Taking place at Perth Concert Hall on Tuesday 7 March, the conference is the flagship event of the 2017 calendar for the British & International Golf Greenkeepers Association’s Scottish region and brings together…

Following the successful launch of the Pellenc Rasion Basic and Smart models in 2015, the company has announced the latest pedestrian rotary mower in the range – the Pellenc Rasion Easy. The Rasion Easy is a combination of the previous two models launched last year as Etesia UK operations director Les Malin explains: “We found…

Bloxham School, in Oxfordshire, has recently purchased three new SISIS tractor mounted turf maintenance machines – the Powaspred, the Variseeder and the Flexibrush. With a plethora of synthetic and natural grass sports pitches at Bloxham School, grounds manager Glenn Davies and the rest of the grounds team have their work cut out. It is safe…

The host of the 2014 Ryder Cup, Gleneagles in Scotland, is to run a scholarship programme that should result in nine people becoming fully qualified greenkeepers. The Gleneagles Greenkeeping Scholarship programme is designed to equip successful candidates with the practical and theoretical skills required for a successful career in golf course management. The funded programme…

Germinal has added a new seed mixture to its Grade A range of sports seed products with the launch of a new semi-rough mixture for golf courses. Designed specifically for use along the border between fairway and rough areas, A32 Ecological Rough is made up of five different grass species, all of which have been…

Wiedenmann’s new super light Terra Spike SL is fast earning the reputation of being smart in every sense of the word. Easily tining down to 210mm on fine turf it is more than twice the match for some shallow aerators especially as it targets that vital area between 100mm and 210mm. On the looks front…

Last staged two years ago, British woodchipper manufacturer GreenMech recently hosted a vast array of the media to deliver an update on the company’s progress. The assembled press were treated to a presentation by sales director Martin Lucas, followed by a factory tour and working demonstrations of some of its new, and most popular, machines.…

Highspeed Group’s ClearWater system was the focus of much attention at BTME this year and was a winner in more ways than one! Managing director, David Mears, said: “BTME is always an excellent show for us and this year proved no exception. We were most impressed by the large number of enquiries taken for our…

One of Britain’s top universities, Imperial College London, has joined forces with the British and International Greenkeepers Association (BIGGA), the Club Managers Association of Europe (CMAE), England Golf and sustainability firm Environmental Solutions International to work together on a national project to survey the UK golf sector’s benefits to the environment. The project could result…

Price Turfcare, a newly established business founded by Ransomes Jacobsen’s former international sales director, Rupert Price, has been awarded the UK and Ireland distribution rights for Ventrac all-wheel-drive compact tractors. Supported by a group of former colleagues with over 100 years of experience in the groundscare sector, Price Turfcare has bespoke warehousing and distribution facilities…

Two London Golf Club greenkeepers were given the opportunity to ply their trade at the famed Le Golf National in France, helping prepare the iconic Albatros course ahead of the European Senior Tour’s Paris Legends Championship. Mark Allard and Chris Kibble, both senior greenkeepers at London Golf Club, spent six days at the 2018 Ryder…