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AUGUST U1XaTgreénjéctìon I966 1/- FERGUSON. CHEESMAN British Golf Perfecto Golf Equipment, Mow ride for Golf Green, get down Netting in association with to grass Proctor Nets Ltd. roots AND ALL PROBLEMS INCLUDING ARTIFICIAL SURFACES The Parker service to grass ¡s the most comprehensive of Its kind. No less than 44 varieties of grass seed. Fertilisers, loams, weed and worm killers to maintain the turf in first rate condition. The finest stock of equipment in the country from rakes to leaf sweepers, mowers to sprayers. Ground accessories for every sport. An advisory panel which thrives on complex problems. But we are just scratching the surface. Do write for our 88 page brochure it tells you everything about us. GREENS GREENS 20-FOUR MOTOR MOWERS RANGER Mk3 Immaculate grooming for big lawns. GANG 4-stroke engine, kick starter, 20 inch MOWERS cutting width. Dog clutch puts Up to 1acres an 6-Blade cylinder out of drive hour ! - Hugging the for cross paths. Drop out ground, cropping cutting unit. closely and evenly Can be ganged into 3,5 or7-unit mowers. Greens Ranger Mowers are the complete answer for quick and economic cuttingoflargeareas. A SHORT CUT TO PERFECTION HAWKER SIDDELEY GREENS MOWERS THOMAS GREEN AND SON LIMITED, NORTH STREET, LEEDS 2 Telephone : Leeds 20357 Hawker Siddeley Group supplies mechanical, electrical and aerospace capital equipment with rvorld-wide sales and service. THE BRITISH GOLF HON. EDITOR : F. W HAWTREE No. 257 New Series AUGUST 1966 FOUNDED 1912 GRASS I PASS PUBLISHED MONTHLY FOR THE BENEFIT OF GREENKEEPERS, GREENKEEPING AND THE GAME There's no green as mean OF GOLF BY THE BRITISH GOLF GREENKEEPERS ASSOCIATION As the fast green that wasn't President: Unless it's the green CARL BRETHERTON With the break that doesn t Vice-Presidents: SIR WILLIAM CARR -CLIFF MACKAY R. B. DAWSON, O.B.E., M.S.C. F.L.S. GORDON WRIGHT F W HAWTREE S. NORGATE I. G. NICHOLLS F. V SOUTHGATE P. HAZELL W KINSEY R. C. AINSCOW Chairman: J SIMPSON AUGUST Ponteland G.C. 98 Hedley Street Gosforth, Newcastle on Tyne, 3 CONTENTS Vice-Chairman: F. CASHMORE Hon. Secretary & Treasurer: C. H. Dix Page 3 TEE SHOTS Addington Court G.C. Featherbed Lane Addington, Croydon, Surrey 4 ABOUT TURF DISEASE Executive Committee: Carl Bretherton (President), 6 GRUNDFOSS HIGH EFFICIENCY G. Herrington, J. G. Bryan PUMPS USED IN AUTOMATIC E. H. Benbow S. T McNeice, J. Parker J Simpson, IRRIGATION SYSTEMS A. A. Cockfield, H. M. Walsh, E. W Folkes, D. G. Lord 8 SPECIAL OCCASIONS Hon. Auditors: Messrs. SMALLFIELD RAWLINS AND 8 CORRESPONDENCE Co., Candlewick House, 116/126 Cannon Street, London, E.C.4 10 NEWS FROM SECTIONS Hon. Solicitor: R. A. BECK 11 SITUATIONS VACANT 21 Lime Street, London, E.C.3 The Association is affiliated to the 16 MRS GREENKEEPER English and Welsh Golf Unions. FDITORIAL AND ADVERTISEMENT OFFICES: Addington Court Golf Club, Featherbed Lane Addington, Croydon, Surrey. Telephone: SANderstead 0281. SUBSCRIPTION RATE: 14/- for 12 issues post paid Published during the first week of each month. LATEST COPY DATE: 8th of month prior to insertion. Aii rights reserved. Reproduction of original articles and photographs in whole or in part is prohibited. TTiis Magazine shall not, without the written consent of the Publishers first given, be re-sold, lent, hired out, or otherwise disposed of. Contributions and photographs of interest are invited. TO INSERT A CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENT write to the Advertisement Manager at the above address. The rate is 6d. per word (minimum 15 words). Box Number, 1/6 extra. Remittance must be sent with order Please state number of insertions required and write advertisement in block letters. Advertisements will be inserted in the first available issue. By Appointment to Her Majesty the Queen Charles H. Pugh Ltd. Motor Mower Manufacturers FOR THE GOLF COURSE . and for Life ATCO GANG MOWERS FOR THE FAIRWAYS arcoThere are three models available. The popular general-purpose model No. 1, the heavy-duty No. 2; and now The NEW MODEL No. 3 with these star features: Special two-section gearbox makes cutter changing a moment's job no stripping I design for outstanding cutting and clearing efficiency Even less time needed for maintenance—For example: oil bath changes, ONCE A YEAR only!—making more time for mowing! Easily attached and detached to suit varying conditions. Atco Gang Mowers are only some of the many machines in the Atco complete range, from the 12" to the 34" roller type, as well as rotary grass cutters and side-wheel mowers. PRICES FOR TRIPLES RANGE FROM £289. and perhaps The 20 most important of all. FOR 'SUPERFINE' MOWING OF GREENS IMPECCABLE SERVICE This 'self-contained' motor mower has EVERYWHERE there is an become recognised as the best machine of all for the main- ATCO Engineer attached to an tenance of the perfect finish ATCO owned Branch ready to required for the Greens. advise on any problem in con- The specification is com- nection with grass cutting. plete and will maintain DEMONSTRATIONS OF ANY ATCO peak performance for CAN BE ARRANGED TO SUIT YOU life. £95 OR YOUR GREENS COMMITTEE CHARLES H. PUGH LIMITED • P.O. BOX 256 ATCO WORKS BIRMINGHAM B 2 TEE SHOTS by the Editor W. J. GARDNER, M.B.E. Billy Gardner died on the 7th July 1966. He had been ill since January He was the genius at the heart of artisan golf for more than 30 years and his connections with the movement were older still. That example will inspire his Association for many years to come. He was a true friend of greenkeepers, understood their problems, encouraged them in their golf and their work. Those who met him year by year at the Artisan Tournament will not forget his special welcome. The next issue of the Artisan Golfer, the magazine which he edited until last year, will be devoted to his memory The tributes of his countless friends will be a measure of his achievements. Punctilious in discharging his official duties, he used them equally to fashion bonds drawing 10,000 golfers together into a unity which reflects his virtues, above all his desire to serve his fellow men. ABOUT TURF DISEASE By J. G. HALCROW, B.Sc., M.I.Biol. ISEASE has been associated with countries these and many more diseases D grass for a great space of measure- may be present, e.g. Brown Patch able time but has become more notice- (Rhizoctonia sp.) and Copper spot able during the last 50 years because (<Gloeocercosphora sp.) of the intensive cultivation and main- Under British conditions, Dollar spot tenance given to fine and coarse turf. disease attacks turf of sea-marsh origin. New grasses and different variations of The small bleached " dollar-sized" grasses may (as they are introduced into areas on the fescues join to form larger sports turf and so become exposed to masses of bleached turf. The appear- the intensive measure of turf culture) ance of bleached areas on fescues could bring new or different forms of disease. be mistaken for Corticium disease. There can be no complacency about However in the later stages of Corticium disease or its control. the hyphae become fused to form coral- Disease which, rightly so, is thought red needles. Dollar spot disease has of so often as being caused by fungi, its own very characteristic horizontal can be brought about by non-fungal yellow banding on the fescues. agencies such as mechanical damage Rings due to the smokes and dusts of industry, Ophiobolus patch disease may flare by severe frost, or scorch by excessive upon areas of bent-grasses growing and injudicious use of fertilisers, fungi- under conditions of excess surface mois- cides and weedkillers, or by plant food ture and alkaline pH. The active fun- deficiencies. All these and many more gus shows itself in June as a red-orange must be considered when a patch of ring, vigorously growing outwards and dead, bleached or discoloured grass destroying the bent-grasses in its path. has to be examined. Inside the ring will be found the resis- tant plants such as annual meadow- Undesirables grass, ryegrasses and pearlwort cushions. The unsightly discolorations and scars on turf frequently indicate the presence Perhaps the commonest and most dis- of fungal disease, as also do the fine figuring disease of sports turf is Fusa- 44 rium patch disease — the so-called cob-web like" strands of fungal 44 Fuzz " The faint brown patches of hyphae which, in the dew of early the disease quickly become orange- morning, can be seen joining grassblade brown and wet in appearance. The in- to grassblade. The discolorations and fected grass dies leaving bare unsightly scars left on turf by fungal disease are scars. In warm 44 muggy" weather unsightly and unwanted but it should this disease becomes active from its be remembered also that disease, by 44 weakening and " opening-out" the banana-shaped resting spores " sward, will permit weed invasion and Breeding the entry of undesirable grasses such as The control of disease so as to annual meadow-grass. A radical change achieve a healthy sward need not depend for the worse can be seen in the com- always on fungicides, but will usually position of a swr*rd exposed to repeated do so. It may be possible in future attacks of fungal disease. years for the plant breeders and gene- Diseases that concern us in the British ticists to produce grasses resistant in Isles are Fusarium pach disease, Corti- varying degrees to diseases. However, cium or Red Thread disease, Ophio- cultural activities can do much to re- bolus patch disease, Dollar spot disease, duce the incidence of disease, i.e.