Hayter Challenge BIGGA *4 We Believe That the Ransomes Classic Is the Best Greens Triple Available Today"
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BEST USE OF WATER • THE CUTTING EDGE • TORO/PGA STUDENT GREENKEEPER FINALISTS )CTOBER 1993 • £3.00 Hughes wins Hayter Challenge BIGGA *4 We believe that the Ransomes Classic is the best Greens Triple available today" says Bill Howie General Manager, Prince's Golf Club. No other Greens Triple can match the Designed to meet the needs of today's mowing precision of the Ransomes Classic. golf courses; it features simple to use Superb greens units with "no tool" micro hydraulic controls, fast interchangeability adjustments and verti-groom option of units and diesel engine for economy ensure a fast, consistent putting surface. and performance. RANSOMES Ransomes Sims & Jefferies Ltd, Ransomes Way, Ipswich IP3 9QG, England. Tel: (0473) 270000 Fax: (0473) 276300 ALL THE DETAILS YOU NEED Our FREE READER REPLY SERVICE keeps YOU in the picture BIGGA Official publication of the British & International Golf Greenkeepers Association OCTOBER 1993 International CONTENTS Getting to Use the post-paid Reader Reply Card facing Page 46 for further information on Kingsknowe you the products and services President The Rt. Hon. advertised in this issue. Just Viscount Whitelaw Nestling on the outskirts of state the companies' Ad Ref K.T., C.H., M.C., numbers and leave it to us. Edinburgh and managed by D.L. BIGGA BOARD OF MANAGEMENT staunch BIGGA supporter ADVERTISERS' INDEX Chairman: John Crawford Vice-Chairman: John Millen Willie Blair, lies city course a quick reference guide Kingsknowe. David White Ad Ref Page BOARD MEMBERS All Seasons Dressing Ivor Scoones George Malcolm examines this 'wee gem' - 375 46 Gordon Moir Barry Heaney Allen Power 126 26 Huw Parry Dean Cleaver when he eventually Atterton & Ellis 7 22 Roy Kates George Barr Bob Andrews 381 27, 33 manages to find it... CLC 424 9 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Pages 17-19 Compact Machinery Neil Thomas B.A. 14 4 EDUCATION OFFICER Enterprise Buildings Ltd Debbie Savage 425 18 Double figures for Education fund Eric Hunter 73 24 Golf Mats UK 426 32 More good news for greenkeeping as a career as the Hayter PLC 90 25 John Deere 103 13 BIGGA Education and Development Fund presents a Lamberhurst Equipment 427 4 plaque to its tenth member Page 7 Land Recovery 417 33 International Lely (UK) Toro 61 20 mmmManaging wate r effectively Lockwood Grass Machinery EDITOR David White 418 21 Tel: 0323 891291 • Fax: 0323 895593 MJT 382 32 David Hemstock looks at the science, rather than Monomet 428 9 DESIGN/PRODUCTION EDITOR the art, of using water for effective golf course Multicore 347 32 Tim Moat Pattisson 35 35 Tel: 0904 610611 • Fax: 0904 643074 drainage Pages 8-9 Ransomes 9 2 Rhone Poulenc 59 36 SALES AND MARKETING MANAGER Hayter Challenge Tournament Rigby Taylor 127 16 Bill Lynch Risboro' Turf 386 32 Tel/Fax: 091 413 7218 Rufford 5 48 Heavy rain failed to dampen enthusiasm for the SCATS 429 4 SALES AND MARKETING ASSISTANT eagerly anticipated final of the prestigious Hayter SISIS 176 47 Louise Lunn Standard Golf 421 29 Tel: 0347 838581 • Fax: 0347 838864 Challenge Tournament Pages 10-12 Supaturf 164 34 Supreme Mowing 57 28 ADVERTISING SALES EXECUTIVE Tillers Turf 292 17 Carol Dutton Students line up for glittering prize Verde Sports 291 4 Tel/Fax: 0207 570117 Wessex Farm Machinery It's time once again for the Toro/PGA European 210 34 PRINTING Colleges • 7 Hi-Tec Print, Unit 7, Universal Crescent, Tour Student Greenkeeper of the Year Award and Buyers Guide • 38-42 Houghton Road, North Anston Trading Classified • 43 Estate, Dinnington, South Yorkshire S31 7JJ eight hopefuls prepare for battle Pages 14—15 Tel: 0909 568533 • Fax: 0909 568206 Recruitment • 43-45 Greenkeeper International is the official mag- azine of the British and International Golf DEPARTMENTS Greenkeepers Association and is published monthly at BIGGA Headquarters, Aldwark Faces and places Up to the minute news and views of all that's hap- Manor, Aldwark, Aine, York Y06 2NF. pening in our industry - and a challenge for turf Tel: 0347 838581 • Fax: 0347 838864. 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AND AD REF NEWPORT loW 0983 524351 REF INFORMATION 429 291 rvi IM Ii im, .ipvi i Lfor a range of s| LAMBERHURST grass hop per abil'i tv & the ability to make all the right moves for mowing quality and time- * IMPORTANT NOTICE * saving trimability. THE FOLLOWING ITEMS WILL BE SOLD TO THE HIGHEST WRITTEN OFFER Choose from the most complete line of outfront, zero-radius mowers in the industry, RECEIVED BY 26 OCTOBER 1993 ranging from 11 to 25 hp, and from 35" to 72" Outfront cutting widths. Plus a full range of ^ , reachability and 1 EX-DEMO HUXLEY HUXTRUK C/W SHORT DUMPBOX. Only year-round attachments L —X "no shift" 7f> hrs. Excellent condition including the Quik-D-Tatch forward/reverse I EX-DEMO HUXLEY 358 GREENSMOWER. SLOTTED FRONT Vac® Grasscatching System. Advanced dual- ROLLERS. TURF COMBS, 3 WHEEL DRIVE. 300 hrs. perkins hydrostatic direct drives Square corner engine. 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Kent TX3XI)S REF 14 Tel: 0757 210007 Fax: 0757 210020 Faces and places • The STRI will hold four five-day courses at Bingley in the nine hole family course at Bondhay complements the existing autumn of '93 and spring of '94, on the theory and practice of driving range and the new 18 hole course, which opens in 1994. turf construction and management. The courses (Monday-Fri- • Cedric Johns has been appointed by the day) will cover soils, grasses, turf diseases and pests, drainage, British Turf & Landscape Irrigation Association watering, fertilisers, machinery, ecology and conservation man- as its press officer.