Designed to help club greenkeepers and volunteers maintain their bowling greens, the popular Dennis and SISIS bowling green maintenance seminar in Perth, Scotland has been credited for improving the greens at numerous bowls clubs throughout the country. Combining insightful presentations and practical tips, a number of industry experts take to the stage to discuss a…

South Staffordshire Golf Club has signed up to a five-year lease deal with Jacobsen. The new machinery will join existing Jacobsen mowers already in use at the club. The delivery was made by Jacobsen UK Direct, the company’s only direct distribution channel in the UK, covering Staffordshire and Shropshire. The lease deal machinery includes an…

Any machinery that makes time-consuming tasks more manageable is desirable and in the area of leaf clearance, a Trilo S3 is just that. At 617 acres, Keele University’s single-site campus is the largest in Europe. With woodland, gardens, sports facilities, halls of residence and academic areas to maintain the in-house maintenance team of 12 have…

A group of gardeners have stripped off to star in a naked calendar to raise money for Perennial, the charity helping those in horticulture. “The ‘Perennial Naked Gardeners Calendar 2018’ makes a great Christmas gift and all proceeds will go towards helping those working in horticulture and their families during times of crisis,” said spokeswoman…

A year’s worth of meticulous and strategic planning from show organisers culminated in what is being hailed by many as the best ever SALTEX. The two-day exhibition has quickly grown to become the premier annual grounds care event in Europe and on November 1 and 2 the halls of the NEC, Birmingham were a hub…

“Rigby Taylor is delighted that the EU has renewed the licence for glyphosate,” says Peter Corbett, the company’s chemicals product manager. “The loss of this important active would have cost local authorities many hundreds of millions of pounds to replace with alternative means of vegetation control. “The industry now needs to take on board the…

Luscombe Plant Hire, based in Ulverston, Cumbria, stock a wide range of site machinery and tools available for daily, weekly, or long-term hire. After noticing that their GreenMech Arborist 130 woodchipper was hardly ever in the yard, owner Simon Luscombe decided to add a second one to his hire fleet to meet the consistent demand.…

Used by many leading golf courses and sports venues – the ThetaKit enables fast, easy, precise soil moisture measurement. It allows turf moisture to be accurately monitored and potential irrigation problems to be addressed before deterioration of the playing surface has occurred. To achieve excellent playing surfaces, turf professionals have many resources to call on,…

2018 dates for Reesink Turfcare’s industry-leading courses have been announced. For the first time the guide is accessible online only, with bookings taking place now. Bringing the same extensive range of industry-leading courses and levels of training as it does every year, the 16-page Reesink Training Guide can be found at the address http://www.reesinkturfcare.co.uk. There,…

A greenkeeping team brought a green back into play in less than one week after it was attacked by vandals recently. The seventh green at Dumfries and Galloway Golf Club was targeted in what club officials are calling a ‘mindless attack’. It’s thought the vandals used a golf club to gouge out several divots in…

Chris King has landed the job of head greenkeeper at Dunston Hall in Norwich, straight from school – but he is certainly the right man for the job. King, 40, left a second stint as head of grounds at Town Close School – an independent prep school in Norwich – to take up the position…

Welsh based company Durabunker recently completed the first phase of a major bunker renovation at world ‘Top 100’ venue The Club at Nine Bridges on Jeju Island in South Korea, in preparation for the first ever PGA Tour event played in the country recently. Working with vice president of PGA Tour Design Services, Steve Wenzloff,…

You may be thinking that John Ledwidge, groundsmanager at the King Power Stadium, has achieved ‘pitch perfection’ with the immaculately striped pitch he is now renowned for. However, John is always looking for the tool or technique to help them up his game – and now he has three Cub Cadet Infinicut™ 34” mowers to…

Designed specifically for watering smaller golf course areas such as tee boxes and compact greens, the new 500/550 Series rotors are the only valve-in-head golf course rotors on the market offering a radius of 8.5 to 14.3 metres. Available now, there is a variety of block, SAM / hydraulic and valve-in-head versions. Replacing the 351b…