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A Job Well Done Best of Both Worlds Drought Stricken m A JOB WELL DONE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS I'd like to start this month's column by paying The second series of seminar/demonstration Nutrition, Artificial Turf-Another Option. Working tribute to Craig Gilholm and his team at Royal days organised by SISIS Equipment Ltd, takes place demonstrations of the newest techniques in the Liverpool Golf Club, who produced an Open venue in September. mechanical maintenance of natural and synthetic in the true links traditional of the Championship. Best of Both Worlds, aims to consider the turf surfaces will be presented by SISIS Equipment What struck me when I arrived was the colour. The benefits of both natural and synthetic turf playing and TYM Tractors. course was the colour of straw while the tightness of surfaces, and how to get the best from them. Dates and venues: September 19 - Radley the fairways would have given handicap players An interesting day is guaranteed with keynote College, Abingdon, Oxon; September 20 - St. nightmares. Obviously the weather has a huge part to speakers Martyn Jones and David Rhodes talking play in producing this but it takes someone of genuine Albans School, Herts and September 21 - HSBC links pedigree to harness the conditions and produce about: Achieving Effective Soil Aeration and Sports Club, Beckenham, Kent. the goods. Planning and Maintaining Synthetic Sports Surfaces. The day is free of charge with a light lunch Craig only took over as Head man last June and it The programme also includes: Choosing the provided. Details are available from Lynn Hilton: is a credit to him that he was able to carry on the work Right Grass Cultivars and Mixtures, Turfgrass [email protected] or phone: 01625 503030. of Derek Green in such a seamless fashion. Sure, Craig did things his own way but he was only able to do so because of the foundations put in place during Derek's tenure. DROUGHT STRICKEN GOLF CLUB The R&A were delighted with what was produced, as they were with the work of BIGGA's Greenkeeping As have many golf clubs in south east Support Team, which had to work like never before. It England, Woodcote Park GC has been hit by a was the first time that the team had prepared bunkers drought order. The club takes its environmental before the start of play as well as divoting at night and responsibilities seriously and has invested in a while it put everyone involved under additional Course Care ClearWater washpad recycling pressure, the pleasure of seeing a job well done, was system, a road tanker and extra water storage all the greater for everyone involved. tanks. The Open now has a larger rota than even before Secretary Adrian Dawson, explained that with more recent venues like Turnberry now joining water needed for the course is being brought with the older venues like Carnoustie and Hoylake, in from an approved grey water source using which have returned after periods on the sidelines. the tanker. The washpad area was not a These three have never all been on the rota at the same time. concern however as the Course Care It means that with St Andrews established with its ClearWater system, recycles water and can be five year cycle, we have Muirfield, Royal Troon, used throughout the drought order to provide Carnoustie Turnberry, Royal Lytham and St Annes, effective wash-off for all the greens machinery. Royal Birkdale, Hoylake and Royal St Georges likely to rotate on more or less a 10 yearly cycle. That provides the variety golf supporters enjoy and also gives more Course Managers the opportunity to GOLF MANAGEMENT TROPHY prepare a golf course for the greatest annual golf event on the worldwide calendar. Northern Region Golf Management Trophy day golf club officials playing a Stableford, with the best It would be nice to see that rota extended still was held at Sandiway GC on July 11. two scores on each hole to count, has proved a further but the demands of an Open Championship 26 golf clubs entered the competition, which popular event for many years. The winning team grow and grow and certainly push quality golf courses was played in beautiful, sunny conditions, on a was Gay Hill GC with 82 points, led by Course like Royal Dornoch, Saunton, Royal Porthcawl and testing course, which had been superbly prepared Manager Paul Woodham. Close runners up were Royal County Down out of the reckoning. The by Course Manager Brian Taylor and his staff. The Fairhaven and Bury GC's with 80 points - with compromises that would be involved in hosting an hospitality of the staff at Sandiway was excellent, Fairhaven claiming second place on countback. Open there would be too much for television, and all had a very enjoyable day. Nearest the Pin was won by Mark Nelson, Course sponsors, players and spectators, never mind BIGGA's The format of four man teams, comprising of a Manager at Renishaw Park GC and Longest drive by Support Team, and render then unsuitable. greenkeeper - who is a member of BIGGA and three Bob Thompson, Secretary at Fairhaven. Hoylake was certainly stretched by these demands, with the exhibition tent on two sites within the golf course and parking at a premium and it was only through the desire of Wirral Council and the local people who embraced the Championship like never TOP OF THE CLASS before, that make it a success. Former Plumpton College students are to And with Tiger Woods emerging as the Champion feature in an article for the Times Education the course can claim to have identified the best golfer Supplement after finding successful employment. and that is all you can ask of a golf course. The students studied agriculture and are now So well done Craig and the guys. You deserve all the praise that has come your way. employed within the farming industries, having gained relevant qualifications and work Scott MacCallum, Editor experience, while still at College. For college enquiries call: 01273 890454 or visit: www.plumpton.ac.uk Email press releases and new product updates to; [email protected] News COLLEGE PREPARES ELAINE FOR NEW DEPOT MALE-DOMINATED ROLE MANAGER Female greenkeepers are a 18-hole golf course, not far from Richard Steele has rare find but Hadlow College, her home at Caterham, Surrey. been promoted to near Tonbridge, is well on the Much of Elaine's NVQ level 3 Rolawn Depot way to helping Elaine Kelley to training is project and Manager at Birtley. achieve her realistic ambition. assignment based. Elaine Richard, 27, joined Elaine always knew she wanted attends courses at the college's Rolawn as Depot an outdoor career and is about main campus in Hadlow that will Assistant at their York to complete a work-based qualify her to use pesticides in branch one year ago. learning course, which should accordance with the Prior to Richard result in an NVQ level 3 in Environment Protection Act. joining Rolawn, his Sports Turf Management. After four years, she still previous experience included working within the This is not the first time hasn't met another lady retail and hospitality sectors. Richard enjoys playing Elaine has turned to Hadlow greenkeeper! This has, however, cricket, snowboarding and following most sports. College, Kent's leading land- certainly not put her off. "Lady based college. She originally members of the golf club seem enrolled for day release courses to enjoy having a woman on the in agriculture, and then worked greenkeeping team and they in the dairy farming industry in often want to chat and ask CLEARING UP FAST both the UK and New Zealand. questions in a way they never do Helping to reduce the time and staff needed to Having re-assessed her lifestyle, Elaine decided with the men", she explained. "I would eventually de-thatch the greens at the Worcestershire GC by to change direction in order to achieve better career like to be Head Greenkeeper at a nine-hole golf more than 50 per cent, Turfmech TM1 walk-behind progression - higher earnings and more sociable course or Assistant Head at an 18-hole course. vacuum collectors use a rotating brush and hours of work. Hadlow College offered the solution: Meanwhile, I would describe my job satisfaction as powerful vacuum to get results. work-based learning whilst employed as an being 100%!" Nestling peacefully in the lee of the Malvern Assistant Greenkeeper in a team of six at an Visit Hadlow College at: www.hadlow.ac.uk Hills, Worcestershire GC was founded in 1879, making it the oldest club in the county and one of the five oldest in England. Although a number of the greens on the parkland course have been MANAGEMENT OF DROUGHT rebuilt over the past 50 years, six date back to the early years of the last century. STRESSED TURF While offering a challenging finish to their Following a successful seminar in May entitled With water restrictions currently in place in respective holes, the greens at Worcestershire GC "Stress Management in Turf", two seminars, one at some areas it is imperative that all precipitation have no underlying drainage system, resulting in Bishop's Stortford GC, Essex and the other at that falls onto the ground enters quickly before it the build-up of compaction and thatch over the Hoebridge GC, Woking, Surrey, on "Management of evaporates, wetting agents such as H2Pro help to years, which is now being actively tackled by Head Drought Stressed Turf" were held in July. make soils very water receptive - maximising water Greenkeeper Graeme Clarkson and his staff. With the continued drought, particularly in the utilisation.
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