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GREENKEEPER INTERNATIONAL GI AUGUST 2010 Inside... Focus on Fungicides Dr Terry Mabbut gets technical The Unseen Irrigation System Irrigation matters uncovered FeaturedHorses Inside (and Tennis) CEciforL Courses Showing the Epsom and GEORWimbledonGE Green Way The Recipientunder the of radar FOUR GOLF CLUBS the BIGGA Lifetime LEADING thE waY Achievement Award IN SUSTAINABILITY A gamble Golf Course pays off Feature Donaghadee Golf Club which has turned around its fortunes thanks to some brave decisions WELCOME FROM THE EDITOR BIGGA President Sir Michael Bonallack, OBE Board of Management There’s One Tool You Chairman – Paul Worster Vice Chairman Andrew Mellon Past Chairman Peter Todd Board Members Chris Sealey, Gary Cunningham, Archie Dunn, Won’t Need When You Ian Willett, Tony Smith, Elliott Small, Mark Dobell Chief Executive John Pemberton [email protected] Head of Learning & Development Sami Collins Service Hunter Sprinklers! [email protected] Head of Membership Department Tracey Maddison [email protected] Contact Us The last thing a golfer wants to see is unsightly excavation BIGGA HOUSE, Aldwark, Alne, York, YO61 1UF [email protected] www.bigga.org.uk scars from typical sprinkler maintenance. All Hunter Tel – 01347 833800 | Fax – 01347 833801 Premium Golf Sprinklers feature TTS - Total Top Service, GREENKEEPER INTERNATIONAL with all serviceable parts accessible from the top which The official monthly magazine of the British and International Golf Greenkeepers helps keep your course looking great like nothing else can. Association Limited. A gifted and Editorial Communications Manager / Editor Scott MacCallum Tel – 01347 833800 Fax – 01347 833801 talented bunch [email protected] Design It is so refreshing to have just returned Not everyone is a genuine social animal and Design and from St Andrews and been in the it does come easier to some people than others Production Editor Tom Campbell company of so many committed and but I do know that BIGGA is a very inclusive organisation and the act of making people Tel – 01347 833800 talented BIGGA members. It goes some Fax – 01347 833801 way to offsetting the consequences of feel comfortable in what otherwise might be [email protected] a succession of late nights and early uncomfortable circumstances is almost an Advertising mornings that I only ever face during unwritten paragraph in the constitution. Sales Executive Open week. A member of the Open Support Team, or a Kirstin Black The entire team, and it was drawn from rookie to Harrogate, or qualifier to the National Tel – 01347 833800 members from all over the world, and a wide Championship, supported by Kubota and Fax – 01347 833802 age range, but they gelled tremendously well. Charterhouse will never feel an outsider for [email protected] My abiding memory of the week will be of long and the next time they will be among Sales Executive gallons and gallons of laughter, especially on those making other people feel comfortable and Jill Rodham some of the late evening mini bus rides back to welcomed. Tel – 01347 833800 Elmwood College where we were billeted for the Can I also take a few moments to pay tribute Fax – 01347 833802 week. to Cecil George, who has won the BIGGA [email protected] But what struck me was how, in the space of Lifetime Achievement Award. I had the great five days, people who had previously just been pleasure of travelling to Lenzie, just outside a face on a database became interesting human Glasgow, to meet up with my old friend, Cecil, Printing beings in their own right. and his wife, Margaret, to interview him for the Contact Revaho Today for Warners Midlands Plc, The Maltings, Manor Lane, Bourne, Lincolnshire PE10 9PH Having the chance to sit down and chat with article which appears in this issue. Your Nearest Stockist Tel – 01778 391000 | Fax – 01778 394269 so many of them led to discoveries about how Cecil is another example of one of those Contents may not be reprinted or otherwise gifted so many of them were, not just on the golf people who is more than the sum of his parts. reproduced without written permission. Return postage must accompany all materials submitted course but in other areas of their lives as well. From his early life as a para, dropping behind if return is requested. No responsibility can be I uncovered someone who had recently enemy lines, to being responsible for developing assumed for unsolicited materials. The right is reserved to edit submissions before publication. rowed at Henley; someone who had been three a greenkeeping syllabus which was taken Although every care will be taken, no responsibility is accepted for loss of manuscripts, time British Line Dance Champion, a top flight around the world. he has more than earned a photographs or artwork. Opinions expressed football referee, not to mention a host of high Lifetime Achievement Award. are not necessarily those of the Association, and no responsibility is accepted for such class category one golfers. Having been so impressed by so many of content, advertising or product information By the end we all knew an awful lot more the Open Support Team members there may that may appear. Circulation is by subscription. Subscription rate: UK £50 per year, Europe and about each other and it just highlighted the well be some future candidates for Lifetime Eire £65, Rest of the World £95. The magazine is greatest asset that the Association has – its Achievement Awards among them. also distributed to BIGGA members, golf clubs, local authorities, the turf industry, libraries and people. The only way you find that out is by central government. meeting and chatting and that is where the BIGGA networking opportunities come into their own. Whether it be Section, Region or National events there are some wonderful opportunities to meet new people and, if The Scott MacCallum Open is anything to go by, make friends who Penketh Place, West Pimbo, Skelmersdale, Lancashire, WN8 9QX Editor ISSN: 0961– 6977 will last a lifetime. T: 01695 556222 E: [email protected] www.revaho.co.uk © 2010 British and International Golf Greenkeepers Association Limited AUGUST 2010 GI 3 WELCOME FROM THE EDITOR BIGGA President Sir Michael Bonallack, OBE Board of Management There’s One Tool You Chairman – Paul Worster Vice Chairman Andrew Mellon Past Chairman Peter Todd Board Members Chris Sealey, Gary Cunningham, Archie Dunn, Won’t Need When You Ian Willett, Tony Smith, Elliott Small, Mark Dobell Chief Executive John Pemberton [email protected] Head of Learning & Development Sami Collins Service Hunter Sprinklers! [email protected] Head of Membership Department Tracey Maddison [email protected] Contact Us The last thing a golfer wants to see is unsightly excavation BIGGA HOUSE, Aldwark, Alne, York, YO61 1UF [email protected] www.bigga.org.uk scars from typical sprinkler maintenance. All Hunter Tel – 01347 833800 | Fax – 01347 833801 Premium Golf Sprinklers feature TTS - Total Top Service, GREENKEEPER INTERNATIONAL with all serviceable parts accessible from the top which The official monthly magazine of the British and International Golf Greenkeepers helps keep your course looking great like nothing else can. Association Limited. A gifted and Editorial Communications Manager / Editor Scott MacCallum Tel – 01347 833800 Fax – 01347 833801 talented bunch [email protected] Design It is so refreshing to have just returned Not everyone is a genuine social animal and Design and from St Andrews and been in the it does come easier to some people than others Production Editor Tom Campbell company of so many committed and but I do know that BIGGA is a very inclusive organisation and the act of making people Tel – 01347 833800 talented BIGGA members. It goes some Fax – 01347 833801 way to offsetting the consequences of feel comfortable in what otherwise might be [email protected] a succession of late nights and early uncomfortable circumstances is almost an Advertising mornings that I only ever face during unwritten paragraph in the constitution. Sales Executive Open week. A member of the Open Support Team, or a Kirstin Black The entire team, and it was drawn from rookie to Harrogate, or qualifier to the National Tel – 01347 833800 members from all over the world, and a wide Championship, supported by Kubota and Fax – 01347 833802 age range, but they gelled tremendously well. Charterhouse will never feel an outsider for [email protected] My abiding memory of the week will be of long and the next time they will be among Sales Executive gallons and gallons of laughter, especially on those making other people feel comfortable and Jill Rodham some of the late evening mini bus rides back to welcomed. Tel – 01347 833800 Elmwood College where we were billeted for the Can I also take a few moments to pay tribute Fax – 01347 833802 week. to Cecil George, who has won the BIGGA [email protected] But what struck me was how, in the space of Lifetime Achievement Award. I had the great five days, people who had previously just been pleasure of travelling to Lenzie, just outside a face on a database became interesting human Glasgow, to meet up with my old friend, Cecil, Printing beings in their own right. and his wife, Margaret, to interview him for the Contact Revaho Today for Warners Midlands Plc, The Maltings, Manor Lane, Bourne, Lincolnshire PE10 9PH Having the chance to sit down and chat with article which appears in this issue. Your Nearest Stockist Tel – 01778 391000 | Fax – 01778 394269 so many of them led to discoveries about how Cecil is another example of one of those Contents may not be reprinted or otherwise gifted so many of them were, not just on the golf people who is more than the sum of his parts.