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Sean Brocklehurst – my journey, mentorship and leading the team at South Herts Golf Club
South Herts course manager Sean Brocklehurst discusses the reality of greenkeeping in 2026 — from managing record-breaking weather patterns and anthracnose to deploying robot fairways mowers and building an onsite reservoir for long-term sustainability.
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William Fitzpatrick is Irish Student Greenkeeper of the Year
The winner of the ICL and Syngenta sponsored Irish Student Greenkeeper of the Year award has been announced as William Fitzpatrick. The award is part of the Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board’s (KWETB) greenkeeping training course run at Naas Golf Club in Kerdiffstown, County Kildare. For a period of 48 weeks participants incorporate…
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This image shows the amazing drainage change at Parley
This picture shows the dramatic impact drainage work that was carried out at Parley Golf Centre in Dorset has had. On the left is how the course looked in January 2014, prior to a £250,000 programme of improvements, and on the right is the same angle from January 2016. “Where once greens and fairways would…
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RJ National GEO certified for record third time
Ransomes Jacobsen’s three-hole golf course, The RJ National, located at its European headquarters on the outskirts of Ipswich, has been re-certified by the Golf Environment Organisation (GEO). With this latest accolade, the RJ National becomes the first golf course in the UK to be awarded GEO Certified® status for commitment to sustainable development for a…
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Another venue more than trebles the size of its hole cups
Norwood Park Golf Centre in Nottinghamshire has become the latest golf club to use giant hole cups to attract juniors and beginners to the game. Instead of using the traditional four and a quarter inch diameter hole cup for golfers, the venue has installed holes with 15 inch diameters. The theory is that larger hole…
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BTME 2016 broke educational attendance records
BTME 2016 has been hailed as an unprecedented success after what has been described as ‘a superb few days’ in picturesque Harrogate for BIGGA’s annual turf care festival.