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Golf. the Future? Northwick Park Profile Award-winning magazine of the British and International Golf Greenkeepers Association BIGGA March 2006 - £3 Golf. The Future? Northwick Park Profile Seed Ride-on Mowers Pesticides Irrigation Bio Stimulants Insurance - as individual as you Unique offers a range of personal insurance products designed to meet your needs. Products include: • Travel • Life assurance • Home - both buildings and contents • Motor • Pets For a free, no obligation quote on any of these products, please call: 01603 828255 and quote UniB0206 and see how much you could save! Insurance as individual I as you Unique is a trading name of Heath Lambert Limited. Heath Lambert Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority. Registered Office: Friary Court, Crutched Friars, London EC3N 2NP. Registered No: 1199129 England and Wales Ask us about our other products Travel Q LifeB Home Q Motore Pets A guide to who's who at BIGGA March 2006 REGULARS President Your next issue of Greenkeeper International News Sir Michael will be with you by April 7 2006. Bonallack, OBE Pages 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 & 9 BIGGA Board of Management Chairman - Richard Whyman 10 GTC News Vice Chairman - Billy McMillan David Golding, GTC's Education Director, explains why he Past Chairman - Kerran Daly firmly believes the future condition of golf courses is in the Board Members hands of the Professionals. Raymond Day Jeff Mills Gavin Robson 11 Education lain Madeod Ken Richardson, Education and Training Manager, reports on Bert Cross his trip to the GCSAA Golf Industry Show in Atlanta, USA. Walter Woods BEM Mark Dobell 12 Membership Chief Executive: John Pemberton Rachael and Gemma talk about a car hire affinity scheme. Email: [email protected] Deputy Chief Executive I 16 I Investigating 14 Letters Education & Training Manager: Ken Richardson Email: [email protected] 16 Continue to Learn: Playing a Pivotal Role Communications Manager/Editor: Scott MacCallum Tim Butler investigates Microbial Inoculants Email: [email protected] and Biostimulants. Sales Manager: Rosie Hancher Email: [email protected] 40 New Products Membership Services Officer: Rachael Palmer Email: [email protected] 43 In the Shed Contact us Greenkeeper International's puzzle page. You can contact The British and International Golf Greenkeepers Association in any number of ways: 44 News from the Chief Executive Post: BIGGA HOUSE, Aldwark, Alne, York, Y061 1UF 44-49 Around The Green Email: [email protected] Website: www.bigga.org.uk 58 As I See It... Tel: 01347 833800 Vv«' 18 Is this the future of golf? Richard Whyman, BIGGA Chairman, discusses his trip to INVESTOR IN PEOPLE Fax: 01347 833801 The States and looks to the youth of the Association. The official monthly magazine of the British 8t International Golf Greenkeepers Association FEATURES Editorial Communications Manager/Editor: Scott MacCallum 15 Say Cheese! Tel: 01347 833800 Fax: 01347 833801 Do you fancy yourself as a photographer and do you have a Email: [email protected] golf course that you feel you'd like to show off to a wider Assistant Editor: Gareth Jones Tel: 01347 833800 Fax: 01347 833801 audience? If the answer to both is a resounding "Yes" why Email: [email protected] not enter BIGGA's Golf Course Photography Competition? Design Design and Production Editor: Marie Whyld 18 Golf. The Future? Tel: 01347 833800 Fax: 01347 833802 Email: [email protected] I 23 I Exploring different grass types Scott MacCallum travels to north London to see a complex Advertising which might just kick start a new wave of young golfers and Sales Manager: Rosie Hancher gives more playing opportunities for the more time-poor Tel: 01347 833800 Fax: 01347 833802 Email: [email protected] player. Advertising Sales Executive: Kirstin Smith 23 Variety is the Spice of Life Tel: 01347 833800 Fax: 01347 833802 Email: [email protected] / [email protected] While the use of fescue in Denmark has been making Sales Assistant: Karen Russell the headlines Danish grass breeders have continued to Tel: 01347 833800 Fax: 01347 833802 develop other varieties which they feel have golf Email: [email protected] / [email protected] applications. Miranda Chambers reports on the work Printing Warners Midlands Pic, The Maltings, being carried out. Manor Lane, Bourne, Lincolnshire PE10 9PH Tel: 01778 391000 Fax: 01778 394269 27 Protecting Our Sports Richard Minton examines the need for good Greenkeeper International: stewardship when it comes to chemical usage. Contents may not be reprinted or otherwise reproduced without written permission. Return postage must accompany all materials submitted if return is requested. 27 The importance of good chemical stewardship No responsibility can be assumed for unsolicited materials. 31 Making Light Work The right is reserved to edit submissions before publication. James de Havilland hops on the current crop of light Although every care will be taken, no responsibility is accepted for loss of manuscripts, photographs or artwork. ride on mowers. Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the Association, and no responsibility is accepted for such content, advertising or product information that may appear. 37 Efficient Practices Circulation is by subscription. Subscription rate: UK £42 per recycle Phillip Armitage discusses Bentgrass Water use rates year, Europe and Eire £55. The magazine is also distributed to BIGGA members, golf clubs, local authorities, the turf When you have finished with and efficient water management practices. industry, libraries and central government. this magazine please recycle it. ISSN: 0961-6977 © 2006 British and International Golf Greenkeepers Association Welcome PERFECT SUBJECTS NEW IMAGE FOR BSH FOR A FLY-ON-THE- There might have been familiar faces greeting programme. Its new image is reflected across a visitors to British Seed Houses' Stand, but the UK suite of new magazine adverts, product-led direct WALL DOCUMENTARY seed company had a distinctive new look at mail, packaging and an upgraded website with Such has been the explosion of reality television Harrogate Week 2006. online purchasing facilities. in recent years there can't have been a walk of life It sported new exhibition graphics, stationery "Anyone who specifies or purchases seed from not covered. We all know everything there is to and product literature on its stand, and entertained BSH can be confident about its quality, and we know about being a property developer; chef; a packed house of customers and key industry think it's important that our image reflects this hairdresser; sewage worker; estate agent; delegates at its celebrity luncheon, where cricket commitment to quality. We've also listened to our policeman; hospital worker; cabaret singer on a pundit, Henry Blofeld, amused his audience with customers' feedback so we can continue to improve boat; farmer; astronaut (fake); vicar, teacher; person tales from the commentary box. the service we provide to them," said Simon Taylor, who lived in another period of history; bus driver; The new corporate identity was created as part BSH's Amenity Development Director. member of the aristocracy... The list goes on and of the company's ongoing strategic marketing on. One of the few professions which hasn't been covered is greenkeeping and it leads me to wonder what the general public would make of you guys and the job that you do. My own view is that they would be staggered by the sheer range of tasks that you have to undertake each working day and the level of sophistication and knowledge that is involved in doing them. Sure you're not dealing with matters of life and death like doctors but it's a little more complicated than knowing how long to leave a perming solution before hair turns green. Course Managers need nowadays to be all rounders - Jacks of All Trade and Masters of Them All. That's not something that many other people in other walks of life Caption: L-R: William Gilbert, Managing Director, Louise Clegg, Henry Blofelt, have to deal with. Where else could you be out Simon Taylor, Joe Hendy, Richard Brown and Bob Scott. changing a hole one minute and making budgetary decisions involving hundreds of thousands of pounds the next? And bizarrely, you are more likely to have BATHGATE'S BUSINESS DRIVE complaints from members if they feel a hole hasn't been New corporate literature, designed Quest's brief was to design and changed properly than if your budget doesn't balance! produce a contemporary new brochure I'm sure that's what frustrates so many of you. You can and produced by Knutsford-based have a course that is playing like a dream but it just agency, Quest, is spearheading a 2006 which reflected the calibre of takes someone to notice a ball washer is out of water new business drive by Bathgate Silica Bathgate's client portfolio, reinforced and you'll get a letter of complaint. Sands into a range of leisure and its growing reputation as a specialist Yup, I'm warming to the idea of a fly-on-the-wall industrial markets. supplier, and could be used as the documentary featuring the everyday activities of a team From its quarry in Sandbach, basis of a renewed sales drive into key of golf greenkeepers. Cheshire, Bathgate is a supplier of target markets. From half past eight every Monday for half an hour sand and top dressings into various Overseen by Quest's creative the whole television watching world could see the sectors, not least the sports and leisure director, Simon Reason, the new some of the hassles you have to contend with from markets. Its sports clients include a literature, together with graphic panels small minded golfers and at the same time marvel at number of Premiership football clubs mirroring the brochure's photography how you can identify one type of grass from another as well as several prestigious and design, was produced in time for and how you look after them all differently.
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