GroundsFest Academy welcomed grounds professionals from across the industry for its latest CPD-accredited event, Preparing Surfaces for Sports, held at Plymouth Football Club’s Home Park Stadium.

Autumn disease pressure rarely arrives overnight. ICL’s Turf Defence programme is built on recognising when conditions begin to shift and acting before disease gains momentum.

The Torrent™ 4 sets a new standard for turbine blowers -EFI power, remote auto-rotate and an MagnaPoint™ instant nozzle control let operators clean faster with less effort. Rugged, reliable and built for daily commercial use.

Why robotic mowers and trailed rotary mowers both have a place in tomorrow’s golf course maintenance.

Royal Dornoch has launched a new website celebrating its thriving wildlife, shot by past captain Professor David Bell. Part of The R&A’s Biodiversity Project, it showcases 174 species found on its Championship and Struie Courses.

Craigielaw Golf Club has underlined its long-term commitment to delivering championship-quality playing conditions with a significant new investment in Toro turfcare equipment and the support services of distributor Reesink Turfcare’s ReeAssure Gold package.

As the Portugal Invitational brings PGA Tour Champions golf to Europe for the first time, official partner Kress is using the occasion to show how autonomous electric mowing technology is quietly transforming the way the world’s top courses are maintained.

A drought declaration has been made in at least one part of the UK almost every year since 2018 and heatwaves in recent days have meant water companies are restricting usage to consumers. However, the Waste2Water recycling system is something golf clubs can always use to clean their course machinery.

Groundsman Matthew Jordan relies on a tried-and-tested OAS programme – from R9 ryegrass to a targeted nutrition plan – to maintain 10 grass courts through an intensive season of tournaments and daily play at Cromer Lawn Tennis & Squash Association.

Head groundsman Adam Stunt has relied on MM50 perennial ryegrass for 16 years to keep Rye Lawn Tennis Club’s eight grass courts in top condition – including through a gruelling summer tournament season that pushes surfaces to their limits.

Nick Phillips, Head of Playing Surfaces at Tottenham Hotspur, has moved the club away from fungicide and nitrogen dependency towards a soil biology-focused renovation programme – with Agrovista Amenity products central to the approach.

Turfco says the WideSpin 1550 topdresser eliminates the mechanical tweaks, overlapping runs and setting checks that slow crews down – offering on-the-fly width and rate adjustment, nine programmable presets and the ability to cover greens, approaches and tees in a single pass.

Rowlands Castle Golf Club course manager Kevin Hensman had dreamed of robotic mowing for years – now, just months after introducing Kress machines, he says they are an absolute game changer for his five-strong team and their 18 fairways.

Contractor Harry Wilcox has expanded his Baroness LM66 fleet after years of breakdown-free performance – with each mower, now dedicated to one of his bowling green contracts across London, and fitted with a front-mounted groomer for a combined cut and groom in a single pass.

Head greenkeeper John Edge says the club’s new GKB V-Strong scarifier exceeded expectations during spring renovation – enabling his team to complete all 18 greens and approaches in a single day, with surfaces back in play within a week.

Sixty hours a week of hand watering, years of leaks and chronic pressure loss – Bedford & County Golf Club’s irrigation system had reached breaking point. Course manager Adam Butler explains why the club finally acted, and what the phased upgrade means for the course’s future.

Centurion Club’s course manager Andy Garland explains how Eurograss Dual Use has become his go-to seed mixture for maintaining consistent playing surfaces at one of the UK’s most prestigious tournament venues – wall-to-wall, all year round.

When rapid grass growth and challenging slopes pushed his previous mower to its limits, Hellidon Lakes course manager Gary Armstrong turned to the Trimax Snake – and halved his semi-rough mowing time in the process.

Origin Amenity Solutions (OAS) is introducing 007XL, a creeping bentgrass that has, for the first time, matched elite browntop bent varieties in independent BSPB G1 trials – challenging long-held assumptions about what creeping bent can achieve in the UK.

Head groundsman Robert Cheape has relied on Kubota machinery – and dealer Hamilton Ross Group – for more than three decades to maintain the busy multi-sport grounds of Scotland’s oldest fully independent school.

The course manager at Raglan Golf Club in Monmouthshire, Lucy Sellick, takes us through her average day.