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Meet the course manager: Shaun Embleton
Course manager Shaun Embleton is spearheading a massive redevelopment at one of the north east’s premier resorts. He discusses moving away from committee-led structures, reimagining championship holes for a modern audience, and why Ramside Hall is the “sleeping giant” finally finding its voice.
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Meet the course manager: Andrew Orr
The course manager at Ralston Golf Club talks about greenkeeping around increased footfall and how he gets the best out of the course’s greens.
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Homburg Draincleaners launches in the golf sector
Fentons of Bourne has been a distributor of Homburg drain-cleaning equipment for the past 28 years. Now, with the introduction of two new dedicated machines, Homburg is entering the golf sector.
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Top-Brush improves play, presentation and plant health at Woolley Park GC
When a Redexim Top-Brush was unloaded from the trailer for a working demonstration at Woolley Park in 2021, head greenkeeper John Rowbottom was so impressed that it never went back on!
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New Pro Flora and Colour Boost Catalogues – packed with new wild flower mixtures!
In order to meet with the increasing demand for conservation mixtures, DLF Seeds has announced expansions to the Pro Flora wild flower and Colour Boost amenity flower collections.
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COMPO EXPERT appoints Neil Pullen as product manager
German fertiliser manufacturer COMPO EXPERT has announced the appointment of former Agrovista Amenity product development manager, Neil Pullen, as its new product manager.
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How to optimise nitrogen inputs
Nitrogen influences shoot and root growth, shoot density, cold and drought hardiness, colour, recuperative potential and disease susceptibility.
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Headland’s New-Way Weedspray – the natural alternative to glyphosate for total weed and moss control
Based on naturally occurring ingredients, Headland Amenity’s New-Way Weedspray provides a fast-acting alternative to glyphosate when it comes to grass, broad-leaved weed and moss control.
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How to maintain your irrigation system
We are about to start a new season for irrigation, and that means all those niggles and issues you ignored last season will be back to bite you … unless action is taken.
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Progressive – delivering contour mowers the way they should be designed!
Vanmac has a wide range of quality solutions to cutting around the course, thanks to the Progressive range of trailed and mounted rotary finishing mowers.
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Campey appoints 15 new international distributors
Campey Turf Care Systems has appointed 15 new dealers across the Middle East and Pan-Asia as part of a new rationalised international dealer network.
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Welsh golf clubs granted £105k to boost sustainability
The Welsh government has granted golf clubs more than £100,000 to tackle climate change.
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Meet the group course manager: Chris Smith
Smith, from Cranleigh G&CC and Chelsfield Lakes GC, details how work has changed in the last two years and why giving up a job as an electrician to pursue a career in greenkeeping turned out to be a great decision.
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Toro delivers the most sustainable tech for your course
We look at two leading machines showcasing hybrid mowing technology in a riding greensmower and all-electric technology in a pedestrian mower, exclusively available from distributor Reesink Turfcare.
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Major storms couldn’t prevent Durabunker build at Chippenham GC
Storms Dudley, Eunice and Franklin all contrived to make a bunker renovation at Chippenham Golf Club challenging for Durabunker – but the first phase of the project was still completed.
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Toro chosen for SSSI irrigation intracies at West Sussex Golf Club
The intricacies of selecting and installing the right irrigation network are no more pronounced than for West Sussex GC, an SSSI, which recently completed the installation of a full course Toro irrigation system.