Portugal’s most iconic golf venue has relaunched its Jack Nicklaus-designed North Course following a major upgrade to greens, bunkers and infrastructure – which is part of a wider investment phase at Monte Rei.

The Open venue has replaced its entire fleet in one go, as head greenkeeper Greig Easton commits to electric mowers, GPS sprayers and a long-term partnership with John Deere to sharpen presentation for a global audience.

Two years after switching to a trio of Baroness LM66 hand mowers for tees, Waterlooville Golf Club’s course manager Chris Marker says the wider cutting units have cut down on maintenance and re-adjustment time – and put Baroness in contention for the club’s other equipment needs.

New creeping bentgrass variety 007XL has matched the UK’s best browntop bents in independent BSPB trials, challenging decades of assumptions that creeping bent can’t perform under British conditions.

Stephen Leighton, the head greenkeeper at Holme Hall Golf Club in Lincolnshire, takes us through his average day.

From a seasonal temp with no greenkeeping background to head greenkeeper, Jon Hatt has relied on Suståne 5-2-4+Fe as the cornerstone of Ferndown Forest’s nutritional programme – backed by advice from a Suståne team he’s known since day one.

At Long Sutton Golf Club, robots and Trimax trailed mowers are working side by side to improve productivity, free up valuable staff time and keep a demanding parkland course under control.

Over 30 years, contracts manager Bobby Luckings has watched SP Landscapes grow from a garden shed to 25 field staff – with Kubota machinery, and the support of local dealer Thurlow Nunn Standen, a constant throughout.

Head of grounds at Radley College, Adam King, has trialled alternative seed for cricket square renovations more than once – but two decades on, he always returns to MM50, praising its consistency, wear tolerance and recovery even through one of the driest summers on record.

Since introducing Kress robotic mowers in September, Rowlands Castle GC’s course manager Kevin Hensman has seen his five-strong team break free from winter’s grass backlog and turn their attention to the finer presentation details members notice most.

GroundsFest Academy has continued to expand its free educational programme following a successful wildflower-focused event held in partnership with DLF Seeds, combining expert-led classroom sessions with practical demonstrations.

Faced with a failing 1991 irrigation system and the added complexity of working on a protected historic site, Sutton Coldfield Golf Club’s course manager Chris Roberts led an in-house overhaul – cutting hand watering, easing staff workload and transforming how the heathland course is managed.

At The Els Club Vilamoura, Wayrobo and local partner Alvorada Tech deployed WayPick 2 on the driving range for real tournament-time ball collection – part of the company’s wider push into the Portuguese and European golf markets.

Joshua Thomason MSc, BSc (Hons), technical manager at Agrovista Amenity, provides a straightforward guide to feeding turf through the colder months, using the Winter Prime package within an integrated pest management programme, and applying Maxtima and Insignia when disease pressure requires fungicide support.

Fife-based dealer Double A has grown from demonstrating a single Groundsman aerator around Scotland’s golf and bowling clubs in 1996 to become John Deere’s largest independent turf equipment dealer in the UK, employing 56 staff across three outlets.

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.

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.