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'Respect Your Course' DO NOT REMOVE FROM CLUBHOUSE BIODIVERSITY AND GOLF ISSUE FOUR Autumn 2019 MAKE YOUR COURSE A WILDLIFE WINNER IRRIGATION SPECIAL EXPLAINING THE SCIENCE AND THE PRACTICALITIES EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW ‘RESPECT YOUR COURSE’ GRAEME MCDOWELL CALLS ON GOLFERS TO Understanding golf course preparation LEND THEIR GREENKEEPERS A HAND YOUR COURSE Proudly presented by 001 BIGGA Your Course Cover.indd 3 01/10/2019 11:08 Supporting Your Course BIGGA Partners provide incredible opportunities that are exclusive to members of the association. These career-defi ning opportunities see BIGGA members travel the world, gaining experience and knowledge that helps them elevate standards across the golf greenkeeping profession. The Continuing Professional Development and world class education we provide would not be possible without the assistance of BIGGA Education Supporters. Ensuring our members stay at the forefront of the turf management industry takes considerable investment and we are hugely grateful for this continued support. 00530 Supporting Your Course Ad 203X265.indd 1 13/09/2019 16:37 ELCOME to the fourth edition of Your Course magazine, which we hope will BIGGA continue to provide BIGGA House, Aldwark Alne, York, YO61 1UF you with an insight 01347 833800 | [email protected] into what it takes www.bigga.org.uk | @BIGGALtd to present a golf course in the United PATRON Kingdom today. Sir Michael Bonallack OBE This year has provided us with some PRESIDENT fabulous golfing entertainment; from Tiger’s extraordinary return to Chris Sheehan, head greenkeeper, West Derby Golf Club major-winning ways at Augusta, via Shane Lowry’s hugely popular CHAIRMAN W Scott Reeves, course manager, Leyland Golf Club Open win at Royal Portrush to an amazing, nail-biting Solheim Cup at Gleneagles. NATIONAL BOARD Andrew Laing, Stuart Taylor, Anthony McGeough, Tom As usual the golf we have witnessed has been played out over Smith, Jaime Acton, George Barr, Chris Sealey immaculately prepared golf courses, all of which have exceptional CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER budgets and whose greenkeeping teams are bolstered for their Jim Croxton | [email protected] events by significant numbers of volunteers. COMMUNICATIONS EXECUTIVE 2019 has certainly been a less demanding year in terms of Karl Hansell | [email protected] temperature; the searing heat of 2018 was simply too much for Your Course is published by: many courses that weren’t able to irrigate fairways, in particular. This SPORTS PUBLICATIONS LTD 2 Arena Park, Tarn Lane, meant many courses came into the 2019 season with significant Scarcroft, LS17 9BF after-effects of 2018’s heat wave. 0113 289 3979 | [email protected] www.sports-publications.com | @SPPublications However, the climate still presented many challenges and in parts of the south there has been less rain than to this point in 2018, PUBLISHER Tom Irwin | [email protected] putting further stresses on irrigation systems, whereas further north it CONTENT DIRECTOR has been very wet indeed. Dan Murphy | [email protected] The greenkeeping profession continues to roll with the punches OPS DIRECTOR through a combination of education, innovation and hard graft. Will Shucksmith | [email protected] We at BIGGA are doing all we can to support the industry. We CLUB GOLF EDITOR are continuing our work with the R&A on their ‘Golf Course Steve Carroll | [email protected] 2030’ project, which aims to provide a roadmap to achieving PRODUCTION EDITOR optimal course conditions in the face of a changing climate, James Broadhurst | [email protected] reduced availability of resources and an ever changing regulatory CHIEF DESIGNER environment. Andrew Kenworthy | [email protected] I’m always incredibly proud of what our members are able to DESIGNERS Emmi Parry, Becky Clark, Vicky Jones achieve despite these outside influences making their working lives Every effort has been made to ensure accuracy, but the publishers cannot increasingly difficult. Thank you for taking the time to read this accept responsibility for omissions and errors. All material in this publication is strictly copyright and all rights are reserved. The views expressed in Your magazine and I sincerely hope it serves to enrich your time out on Course do not necessarily represent the views of the company or the editor. Every care is taken in compiling the contents but the publishers assume no the fairways. responsibility for any damage, loss or injury arising from participation in any offer, competition or advertising contained within Your Course. Jim Croxton – chief executive officer, BIGGA bigga.org.uk 003 BIGGA Welcome.indd 1 01/10/2019 11:09 2 2019 Spring YOURCOURSE ISSUE FOUR Autumn 2019 CONTENTS 004-005 BIGGA Contents.indd 2 01/10/2019 11:21 06 QUESTION TIME Three course managers from across the United Kingdom answer your burning questions about greenkeeping practices 12 THE CHANGING DEMANDS OF GREENKEEPING Worthing’s George Barr looks back on the biggest changes to the greenkeeping industry in the last 45 years 20 CONFESSIONS OF A GREENS CHAIRMAN How a strong working relationship between a greens chairman and course manager is vital to a club’s success 28 THE NEED FOR SPEED Do green speeds actually matter? Dr Micah Woods examines the facts and figures 32 AFTER THE DROUGHT, THE DELUGE From parched and baked fairways during the 2018 heatwave to this year’s wet summer, we could not have witnessed two greater contrasts in the space of just a single year. We take a look at some of the courses affected 40 THE MCDOWELL BROTHERS One brother is a US Open winner, the other a greenkeeper at one of Northern Ireland’s premier links courses. We sit down with Graeme and Gary McDowell to chat about their contrasting careers, family dinner table discussions and Royal Portrush’s Open return 46 THE ULTIMATE MACHINERY GUIDE Matthew Brighton talks us through every piece of greenkeeping gear in Alwoodley’s maintenance facility and how they help keep the course in tip-top condition 52 THE SECRETS OF AN IRRIGATION SYSTEM What is an irrigation system? Scott Reeves, BIGGA chairman and course manager at Leyland, reveals all 58 GOLF AND WILDLIFE How golf clubs and organisations are working together to ensure courses do their bit for the UK’s native animal and plant life 64 BUILDING A TEE There’s a lot more to constructing a mound of earth than you might think. Gaudet Luce’s Andy Laing explains the work involved bigga.org.uk 004-005 BIGGA Contents.indd 3 01/10/2019 11:21 6 2019 Autumn YOURCOURSE 006-011 BIGGA Greenkeepers’ Question Time.indd 6 01/10/2019 11:10 Question Our readers asked the questions and this trio of course managers were tasked with coming up with the answers… TIMEbigga.org.uk 006-011 BIGGA Greenkeepers’ Question Time.indd 7 01/10/2019 11:10 8 2019 Autumn YOURCOURSE HAT would you get off your seed establishment and it’s usually easier to get the chest if you could ask your topdressing into the profile. There is less chance of greenkeeper one question? disease with healthier turf going into the high pressure We put that poser to golfers period of September and October. across social media channels In years gone by this work may have been done at the end and watched the enquiries of the season, putting the plant under huge stress, damaging flood in. We then picked out or smothering the leaf and increasing the chances of a the best and put them to three fusarium attack in conditions less conducive to recovery. course managers to answer. Greg: The only renovation work we undertake at this Our panel consists of Lucy time is monthly micro-tining. With predominantly fine Sellick, head greenkeeper at Wenvoe Castle in the Vale of perennial grasses, and only minimal inputs of fertiliser, WGlamorgan, Greg Fitzmaurice, course manager at Hunley there is no real need for removal or dilution of organic Hotel in Yorkshire, and Andrew Wood, who leads the matter through renovations. Only minimal accumulations team at Enville in the West Midlands. from growth allow the natural biological breakdown to Here’s what they made of your queries… control organic matter without us needing to intervene. WHY DO YOU RENOVATE GREENS DURING THE HEIGHT OF THE HOW MUCH ATTENTION WOULD YOU PAY TO COMPETITION SET-UP, PLAYING SEASON? SUCH AS WHERE YOU PUT THE FLAGSTICKS? Andrew: One of the main reasons is that, by August, Lucy: I try to maintain the course to a high standard every our greens begin to show slight signs of a drop in day of the week – whether it is a Tuesday or Saturday. But performance – whether that be drainage characteristics some days do get a few extras. At championships and or turf quality. It also means we don’t have to do much to finals weekends I produce a pin sheet and there will be them again until the following January and enables us to extra rolls of the putting surface leading up to the event, keep summer conditions well into the autumn. as well as playing off the back tees. I also empty the We also get quicker recovery, a larger percentage of course of staff and machines ahead of the golfers teeing 006-011 BIGGA Greenkeepers’ Question Time.indd 8 01/10/2019 11:10 Left: Our panel say they renovate greens during the height of summer because it allows them to keep summer conditions well into autumn off. That means an early 4am start for the team. We’re heavy clay soil site surrounded by trees. finished by 10.30am, but that allows us to do much more Deciding on the grass species is based on factors such work without interruptions.
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