One year after The Open Championship returned to Royal Troon, the club continues to raise the bar in turfcare excellence, with the help of Toro’s technology and Reesink support.

As one of the UK’s leading arboricultural businesses, Gristwood & Toms (G&T) rely on a vast and varied fleet of high-performance 2-stroke equipment to deliver consistent reliability on jobs around the country. Powering that operation for the last seven years has been Aspen Fuel.

Richard Windows is assistant director of Sustainable Agronomy Services at The R&A, where he leads the global team responsible for Championship Agronomy and Sustainable Agronomy programmes worldwide. Here he talks about preparing an Open Championship course from an agronomy perspective.

A host of the biggest brands in ground and turfcare were on show at Wildwood Machinery’s first Open Day, at East Horton Golf Club, attended by groundcare professionals and buyers from across southern England.

Aerators play the central role in creating a balanced water management programme and Otterbine’s Fractional Series is now even more efficient and easy to use.

The purchase of an Avant 630 compact loader has not only accelerated operations across Brentwood Tree Surgery, but it’s also unlocked new opportunities, turning the machine into what owner Adrian Strudwick now calls “the centre of the firm.”

With a new SP100 from GKB Machines, the team at Stanmore Golf Club now has a robust, versatile topdressing solution to support ongoing course renovation and drainage works.

With the recent installation of a Hunter irrigation system — supplied and supported by KAR UK — Leigh Sports Village is now seeing the full benefits of precision turf management across the site

We speak to five senior members of staff at Blairgowrie Golf Club in Perthshire, including the head greenkeepers of its three golf courses, and the venue’s managing secretary and chief mechanic, to find out how the courses are maintained.