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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

With 71 percent of England in drought and two water companies moving towards bans on business water use, here’s a guide for golf clubs regarding what they can still irrigate, what legally binding national reduction targets require of them and where to start building resilience.

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.

The Turfgrass Growers Association has warned that the drought has changed the economics of turf production, with one grower reporting irrigation costs up around 40 percent, and this will affect availability and lead times long after the rain returns.

The assistant greenkeeper at Lees Hall Golf Club in Yorkshire, Danny Tozzi, takes us through his average day.

Groundsman Miguel Pimenta bought the new synthetic surface cleaner and says its brush and vibrating screen system, tool-free depth adjustment and suction unit have brought new speed and consistency to the school’s artificial pitches.

CPD Penrhyndeudraeth FC’s groundsman Aled Thomas says a compact tractor and Quadraplay combination, funded through the Cymru Football Foundation’s Fit for Future Equipment Fund, has made an immediate difference to pitch presentation and playability at the north Wales club – helping it avoid call-offs through a difficult winter.