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01 REPARING FOR A TOP CHAMPIONSHIP • COMPACTION • VISCOUNT WH|TELAW INTERVIEW JLY 1994 • £3.00 The environmental routes different courses are following Award-winning journal of the British and International Golf Greenkeepers Association It's the results that count with HARDI GREENCARE suppliers of the leading Aeration Equipment [hardT It's the results that count when you spray the HARDI way It's the results that count... Contact the experts NOW on 0455233811 AD REF HARDI LTD • 4/5 WATLING CLOSE • SKETCHLEY MEADOWS • HINCKLEY • LEICS LE10 3EX • TEL 0455 233811 • FAX 0455 233815 25 President The Rt. Hon. Viscount Whitelaw K.T., C.H., M.C., D.L. BIGGA BOARD OF MANAGEMENT Chairman: John Millen Vice-Chairman: Barry Heaney BOARD MEMBERS Richard Barker George Malcolm JULY 1994 FREE READER Gordon Moir John Crawford REPLY SERVICE Huw Parry Dean Cleaver Jeffrey Mills George Barr Use the post- paid Reader EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Reply Card Neil Thomas B.A. Contents facing Page 54 EDUCATION OFFICER for further Ken Richardson information on the products ADMINISTRATION MANAGER Working with and services John Pemberton advertised in this nature issue. Just state With the words 'golf and the companies' Ad Ref numbers, post the card to us and 'environment' increasingly we'll arrange for further informa- tion to be sent to you direct. being linked, we look at three courses to find out ADVERTISERS' INDEX is the official monthly magazine of a quick reference guide the British & International Golf how they are tackling Greenkeepers Association. Ad Ref Page Contact us at Aldwark Manor, sensitive ecology issues. Linlithgow, Temple and Gleneagles Andersons 463 14 Aldwark, Alne, York Y06 2NF explain their policies for the 1990s Pages 17-21 A&F Warehouse 407 34 Brian D Pierson 40 21 EDITOR Dixon & Holliday 214 16 Chris Boiling Tel: 0347 838581 • Fax: 0347 838864 Enterprise Buildings 425 16 Preparing for a major championship E&S Sportsground 248 33 DESIGN/PRODUCTION EDITOR The Bell's Scottish Open is a four-day event, but preparations Eric Hunter Grinders 73 40 Tim Moat Golf Maintenance 440 55 Tel: 0904 610611 • Fax: 0904 643074 behind it stretch into years. We explain the procedures which Grundon 437 15 SALES AND MARKETING stop the Bell's from taking its toll Pages 9-11 Hardi 25 2 MANAGER Hayters 90 24 Bill Lynch ICI Professional Products Tel/Fax: 091 413 7218 Our friend in high places 54 56 SENIOR ADVERTISING SALES loG 365 41 EXECUTIVE He's the esteemed elder statesman of British politics but his Irish Greenkeepers Association Carol Dutton first love is golf... 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ADVERTISING WORKS Picture by Joe McCarthy IN GREENKEEPER ran INTERNATIONAL: The response from our Greenkeeper Education and Development Fund Buyer's Guide far The Fund provides the key to the future for outweighs the expense greenkeeper, golf club and game. Individuals and of the ad. We can reach a much companies can join the Golden Key Circle and Silver wider audience which Key Circle. For details, contact BIGGA on 0347 838581. is not restricted to the English market. GOLDEN KEY CIRCLE COMPANY MEMBERS: • ET Breakwell Ltd • Hardi Ltd • Hayters PLC - JESSE JOHNSON, • ICI Professional Products • Jacobsens • Kubota UK Ltd BIGGA Managing Director, Liquid Sod • Lely UK Ltd • Rigby Taylor Ltd • Toro Irrigation GOLDEN KEY Inc and SILVER KEY FOR MORE DETAILS CALL: SILVER KEY CIRCLE COMPANY MEMBERS: Bill Lynch on 091 413 7218, or • Ransomes • Risboro' Turf CIRCLES Carol Dutton or Louise Lunn at For a BTME '95 information pack call Louise Lunn on 0347 838581 - quickly! The event is almost sold out... BIGGA HQ on 0347 838581. GREENKEEPER INTERNATIONAL July 1994 3 WE SAY Spring time - or stress time? t's early April and spring is in and perhaps, if necessary, seek ter than the departing one within I advice or guidance from BIGGA the resources made available to the air. The nights are drawing as the professional body repre- him and prevailing attitudes out and the dark days of winter senting their Course Manager's within the club. Indeed it may are but a fading memory. A time interests. Greenkeepers do not not be too long before the sce- of optimism when greenkeepers generally seek confrontation. nario repeats itself. So it could sally forth with a new spring in They ask quite simply for consul- well be that the club will reflect their heels. Or is it? For many tation, consideration and under- on the loss of a good man in the greenkeepers it's stress time once standing in carrying out a course of quietening a few over- again. No sooner is the month difficult job to the best of their excited members who really under way than greenkeepers are ability and under increasingly needed no other antidote that a confronted with their first major complex rules and regulations, let few low-scoring rounds of golf problem best summarised as the alone bad weather, inadequate before declaring the golf course 'Augusta Syndrome'. As the last BIGGA in focus capital and maintenance budgets to be in the best condition they images of the Augusta Masters BY NEIL THOMAS and too few staff. They do not could remember. tournament fade from our TV seek to stand above criticism or So now it is July and hopefully screens the knocking brigade deny their own foibles. However, for the survivors 'spring madness' come into action. Suddenly the workshops for 20-25 members at they surely have a right to expect is over for another year. For those golf course which was in fine con- a time on a rolling programme the employer to protect them who haven't made it one can only dition for the time of year only basis. Certainly more and more from the diatribes of those small hope that there are better days the previous week is now per- Course Managers are benefiting groups of ill-informed members ahead. Before we go full circle ceived as far from that when from a regular dialogue with whose knowledge of golf course once again is it too much to hope compared with the idyllic condi- members and this is a move in management is at best scanty and that a new spirit will prevail? Is it tions prevailing at the Masters. the right direction and to be very at worst non-existent. Yet how too much to ask that clubs pro- Little heed of course is paid to much encouraged. easily can such members produce vide the wherewithal for green- such mundane matters as climatic Where a negative situation a career-threatening situation for keepers to receive training in conditions, maintenance budgets exists in a golf club and there is a the greenkeeper. areas of identified weakness? Is it or greenstaff numbers. Winter is lack of communication, it is all As we move through May and too much to ask that green com- over and the course should be in too easy for the Course Manager June as peak playing months the mittees show greater understand- mint condition. to become isolated and inward- pressure is really on and perhaps ing and put their faith in their The Chairman of the Green looking - both within the club these two months more than any most important employee, the Committee is called into action. and indeed from his local BIGGA others will determine whether golf course manager, rather than Surely it is time the greenkeeping section where, if approached, car- the Course Manager's services are interfere in matters where their staff were sorted out.