The largest-ever programme of education at a turf industry event in Europe has been unveiled by BIGGA. Continue to Learn at BTME 2017 will feature more than 250 hours of education with guest speakers such as Neil Cleverly, superintendent of the Olympic Golf Course in Rio, and the course managers responsible for hosting the last…

A company that can install and renovate bunkers is offering an insured financial guarantee programme to golf clubs. “Since 2010 Capillary Concrete® has been revolutionising bunker installation with hundreds of successful installations worldwide. The technology has proven itself across five continents, facing all kinds of weather, and has an impeccable track record. No other product…

The Landscape Group, a UK-based green service provider, has chosen Jacobsen equipment to maintain Sport Aberdeen’s four council-owned golf courses. The Landscape Group won the Sport Aberdeen contract in 2015 and has recently invested in Jacobsen equipment to maintain all courses. Sport Aberdeen, a registered charity, currently operates four courses in the Aberdeenshire area on…

When Richard Mullen arrived at Banchory Golf Club as course manager in June 2015 he was met by bare greens. But he immediately knew what to do – overseed with Rigby Taylor’s R9 perennial ryegrass. “I’d used R9 before, and knew about the seed’s leaf quality and its ability to recover quickly,” he says. “But…

Kubota UK has introduced a 0% finance offer across its full range of utility vehicles for the rest of October. The company is a leading manufacturer of agricultural, groundcare and construction machinery solutions. According to a company spokesman, Kubota’s RTV range – which includes the RTV-X900, RTV400, RTV500 and RTV1140 – delivers the perfect blend…

Beaumont Grounds Maintenance has been seeing an increase in artificial surfaces, in particular with schools. This has led to it expanding its machinery fleet with a Redexim Verti-Top 1200 from Charterhouse Turf Machinery. Established by his grandfather in 1965, current managing director Alex Lineton is the third generation of the family to run the company…

A-Plant is the UK’s largest equipment hire company with over 150 service centres nationwide. Its garden and landscaping offering boasts some prestigious customers including the Environment Agency and Balfour Beatty which entrust A-Plant to deliver machinery that fulfils their varied and demanding contracts. For its arboricultural machinery, A-Plant has recently added a number of new…

Sherriff Amenity has launched a unique range of new biological pest control products. It is that time of year again when we might just find some unwanted visitors dwelling in our soil, feeding on plant roots and damaging the turf. The problem however does not just rest there – if we fail to remove them,…

Southerndown, Pennard and Secession GC have found that the EcoBunker construction method is a cost effective way to renovate their bunkers. Andrew Mannion (Southerndown) and Huw Morgan (Pennard) figured that every ‘traditionally’ built bunker on their courses was costing them £350 to £400 per year to maintain. After renovating using the EcoBunker construction method, feedback…

A championship golf course that is being proposed to be built in the Highlands is at risk due to concerns for a rare species of fly. The site for the proposed 18-hole course is in Coul. The Fonseca’s seed fly only breeds in the dunes where the course is set to be created – and…

Reesink Turfcare’s first service branch in Scotland will receive its official launch at a special customer open day on 6 October. At the event, visitors will be able to see a wide range of the latest Toro turf equipment from greens, tees, fairway and roughs mowers to Workman utility vehicles, for golf, sport and other…

David Edmondson, links superintendent at the Island Golf Club in Donabate, Dublin, believes that Praxys, ICL’s high performance, highly concentrated systemic selective herbicide has provided ‘phenomenal’ results since he has been using it. The Island Golf Club, founded in 1890, is a traditional private members’ golf club with a proud history of upholding the best…

These are the latest images from Wentworth’s iconic West Course, which is currently undergoing a major revamp. “The most significant news at this time involves the bunker renovation, with 25 per cent of the bunkers removed across the course,” said Wentworth’s director of courses and grounds, Kenny Mackay (also pictured). . “On top of this, every…

One of the West of England’s most scenic golf hotels has completed a major series of improvements to its golf course, and has published photographs which showcase its new look. The work recently undertaken on the 6,579 yard par 72 golf course at Tewkesbury Park has transformed not only its condition but also the level…

Alan Abel from Complete Weed Control gives turf managers his view ahead of the autumn fertiliser treatment window and how to deal with the second leatherjacket season: ‘Summer has been somewhat of a wash out for many of us. We have all had our fair share of wet weather as well as good warm and…