Magazine - Training (Page 10)

Cultivation Techniques – Planning an optimum programme
17 Oct 2005 - Training - Martyn Jones - 1 comment
The first part of a two-part article reviewing the processes of identifying soil physical problems and the design of a corrective programme using appropriate cultivation techniques based on a scientific understanding of symptoms.

7th Slovenian Educational Conference
29 Sep 2005 - Training - Editor
Details of the forthcoming education seminars in Slovenia, where 80 GCSAA education points are on offer for attending this event. Registration and seminar details inside

Essential Management Skills – Course details announced
20 Sep 2005 - Training - Ellie Parry
Later this year, Pitchcare will run its first ‘Essential Management Skills’ course, delivered by trainer and careers counsellor Frank Newberry. Frank has trained Groundsmen and Greenkeepers for more than 15 years and this new course is aimed at helping those in a supervisory or management position to acquire a range of vital management skills and put them into practice successfully in the workplace.

Do you manage your golf course on a low budget?
17 Sep 2005 - Training - Martyn Jones - 1 comment
The National Turfgrass Foundation Conference at the Hilton Hotel, Blackpool, 5th to 8th December 2005 aims to ease some of the tension caused by golf clubs that have high expectations of the quality of their courses but where few are prepared to have such high expectations of the budget required to manage them-details inside

Essential Management Skills training from Pitchcare
2 Sep 2005 - Training - Ellie Parry - 5 comments
Later this year, Pitchcare will run its first ‘Essential Management Skills’ course, delivered by trainer and careers counsellor Frank Newberry. Frank has trained groundsmen and greenkeepers for more than 15 years and this new course is aimed at helping those in a supervisory or management position to acquire a range of vital management skills and put them into practice successfully in the workplace.

The future of turf grass education?
7 Jul 2005 - Training - Phil Sharples - 8 comments
After spending the past 9 years working in the sports turf education arena at instructor, lecturer and head of department levels, and spending 5 years previous to this being educated in sports turf (both full and part time), I now feel in a strong position to make informed comment on the current state of affairs within education. Both positive and negative!

Looking deeper into Cricket Topdressings
24 Jun 2005 - Training - Alan Lewis - 4 comments
Topdressing has become an automatic operation with the autumn renovation of a cricket square, but with changes in scarification over the last few years, is it time we looked in more detail at the process of top dressing, and more importantly, the materials used? More Inside.

Putting Green Root Zone Amendments and Irrigation Water Conservation
17 Jun 2005 - Training - Editor
Peat and soil amendments increase the available water capacity (AWC) of sand based root zones, but to translate this into irrigation water savings, an irrigation scheduling protocol that uses AWC information must also be adopted by the superintendent.

Best Management Practices to reduce Pesticide runoff from Turf
7 Jun 2005 - Training - B.E. Branham - 1 comment
Golf turf management has made huge strides over the past 40 years that have allowed golf course superintendents to achieve turf quality that nears perfection. However, to achieve these very high levels of turf quality requires numerous inputs including fertilizers, irrigation, topdressing, cultivation, wetting agents, biostimulants, and pesticides.

Dollar Spot Resistance
2 Jun 2005 - Training - Faith C. Belanger
Interspecific hybridization between creeping and colonial bentgrasses was investigated as a way of incorporating the inherent dollar spot resistance from colonial bentgrass into creeping bentgrass. Controlled crosses in a greenhouse were done to determine the frequency of hybridization. Hybrids between creeping and colonial bentgrass were recovered at low frequencies. The hybrids were then put into crossing blocks in the field and checked for fertility. More Inside