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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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Greenkeeping apprentice achieves top grade
Thomas Sherreard from London GC and Hadlow College has become the first greenkeeping apprentice to achieve the new City & Guilds ‘Level 2 Certificate’ in golf greenkeeping associated with the new apprenticeship standard.
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Record attendance for Amenity Forum conference
A record number of people representing all areas of the amenity sector attended the Amenity Forum conference at the Pirelli Stadium in Burton on Trent last month.
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Coxmoor Golf Club uses the ‘Whisper Twister’ to remove leaf debris
Coxmoor’s previously under-used John Deere 3730 tractor now supports a Wiedenmann Whisper Twister blower on the front and a variety of equipment on the back.
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Company profile: Price Turfcare – distributor of Ryan turf maintenance equipment
Price Turfcare is the UK and Ireland distributor of Ryan turf maintenance equipment, the US-manufactured machinery that has set a standard for compact equipment to help golf course greenkeeping teams, landscape contractors and groundsmen.
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Coventry Hearsall benefits from fixed term finance for irrigation
Coventry Hearsall Golf Club is one of the first clubs to benefit from Reesink Turfcare’s fixed term finance for irrigation.
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Open 2020 preparations at Royal St George’s already underway
With the Open Championship returning to Royal St George’s in 2020, the south coast club has chosen Toro irrigation to ensure the course is looking its best when the world’s top golfers arrive in under two years’ time.
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EcoBunker sees rapid growth in past year
In Australia, for example, the company has gone from no business at all 10 months ago to being involved in major construction work on four world famous golf courses and several others that are highly regarded.
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Here are some brilliant images of greenkeepers at the Ryder Cup
Some of the 20 greenkeepers sponsored by Capillary Concrete to work on the grounds crew at this year’s Ryder Cup reflect on the experience.
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Greenkeeper profile: David Fraser
Dunston Hall’s new greenkeeper, David Fraser, can boast a number of big-name venues on his CV.
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Rigby Taylor products help put renewed life into Lees Hall Golf Club
Ian Whitehead knew that simply by applying common sense greenkeeping practices – coupled with the right amenity products – he would be able to make a difference when he joined 18-hole Lees Hall Golf Club in 2016.
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The Leicestershire GC delighted with GripClad
“We have 60 sleeper steps around the course which become a slip hazard, particularly during winter. The club decided to research a non-slip material that would solve the problem and make the steps less hazardous.”
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A day in the life: Antony Kirwan
Antony is the course manager at Romford GC in Essex. The Open qualifying venue was designed by James Braid and lies just 18 miles from the centre of London.
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A product to prevent people slipping on your golf course
Wrapping chicken wire around a sleeper to prevent someone from slipping on hazardous elevated stepped access, or tripping or falling from steep sided tees, just doesn’t solve the problem, it contributes to it.
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How do you control earthworms without chemicals?
With chemical control of earthworms consigned to history, agronomist Emma Beggs looks at ways to reduce the problem of casts on sports surfaces.
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This is how Gullane GC prepared its course for two major tournaments this summer
Shortly before Oliver Fisher carded the first round of 59 in European Tour history at the Portugal Masters in Vilamoura, South Africa’s Brandon Stone missed a putt to get the same score at the Scottish Open at Gullane GC.