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Lee Westwood sees red over Gleneagles' greens
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By Press Release (29 Aug 08 8:00)
Lee Westwood, whose 72 left him four shots behind Gregory Havret on the first day of the Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles, made it plain that the greens on this PGA Centenary course were not in the same five-star league as the hotel.
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Time for operators to think the unthinkable and pool resources?
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By Press Release (28 Aug 08 9:00)
THE last 20 years has not only witnessed a dramatic boom in golf course development, it has also seen a sea change in the way golf courses are run, with the emphasis now on a commercial return.
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St Andrews Links' new Castle Course reports busy opening month
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By Press Release (27 Aug 08 10:00)
A busy opening month for The Castle Course saw more than 4000 rounds of golf played at the new seventh course at St Andrews Links.
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Golf clubs face the prospect of being left in the bunker
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By Press Release (27 Aug 08 9:00)
With some US golf courses being converted back to farmland, Peter McCusker asks whether the 20-year growth in UK golf is over and how many of the region’s 80-plus clubs can survive.
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MJ Abbott to feature in television documentary
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By Ellie Tait (22 Aug 08 15:00)
Leading golf course constructor MJ Abbott Limited is to feature in a television documentary for Channel 5. The episode of How do they do it? featuring How do they make a golf course? will be broadcasted at 7.30pm on Thursday 16th October on Channel 5 and later in the year on the Discovery Channel. - Read Article
The R&A Announces New Golf Club Rules
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By Press Release (19 Aug 08 17:00)
St Andrews, Scotland, 5 August 2008: The R&A has today announced revisions to golf’s equipment Rules, which are designed to enhance the benefits of accuracy by making playing from the rough a more challenging prospect in future.
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Ransomes Jacobsen training for Greenkeepers in Austria
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By Peter Driver (17 Aug 08 12:15)
Robert Ernst, one of the Ransomes Jacobsen Cutting Edge Training team responsible for end user training in Europe, has been tutoring greenkeepers at Landwirtschaftliche Fachschule Warth, an Austrian government-operated Agricultural and Green Science College in Warth, about 80 km outside Vienna.
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Valhalla Golf club gets ready for the Ryder Cup
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By Peter Driver (15 Aug 08 11:00)
Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky is getting ready for the next instalment of the greatest spectacle in golf and is using Jacobsen turf maintenance equipment to prepare for the tournament in September. - Read Article
A bit of Dacorum at Little Hay Golf Complex
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By Editor (13 Aug 08 14:45)
It is said that 80% of workers hate their job. This seems a high percentage until one thinks of the monotonous work in which some are employed. - Read Article
DFence bill cuts fungicide costs at Chipping Sodbury
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By Mike Saull (12 Aug 08 11:00)
A new bio-stimulant that boosts the turf’s natural defence mechanisms has helped keep fusarium at bay and cut winter fungicide bills by £3-4000 at Chipping Sodbury Golf Course.
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Ferry is heading for final landing
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By Press Release (12 Aug 08 8:00)
ONE YEAR ON from seeing the first shots played on their own golf course and Mark and Elaine Overton are halfway to completing their dream.
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Jacobsen Super Light Fairway Mowers for Sunningdale
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By Peter Driver (10 Aug 08 12:00)
Murray Long, Courses and Estate Manager at the prestigious Sunningdale Golf Club in Berkshire, has recently taken delivery of three Jacobsen SLF1880 super light fairway mowers from local RANSOMES JACOBSEN dealer, T H White Ltd of Reading. RANSOMES JACOBSEN is a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company. - Read Article
Managing Greens Under Stress
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By Stanley J. Zontek (08 Aug 08 9:00)
Among the responsibilities of today's golf course superintendent, the need to maintain a good stand of grass on putting greens is perhaps the most basic of all. Greens are the bread and butter of a golf course, and the reputation of a course and the superintendent who maintains it is often determined by the consistency of those greens. - Read Article
Headland's Trees offset Carbon Footprint
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By Carol Dutton (07 Aug 08 16:10)
More than 600 trees have been planted on golf courses all over the UK as a result of Headland Amenity’s initiative designed to offset the company’s carbon footprint. - Read Article
Green Keeping
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By Richard Stuttard (04 Aug 08 9:00)
Today, reducing environmental impacts should be on the agenda of all sports facilities. Indeed, all walks of business should be doing their bit for the environment and, as a result, potentially making financial savings in the process. Golf clubs are no different and I use these as an example of how the operational direction of a business needs to change in today’s climate. - Read Article
August Golf Diary
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By Laurence Gale MSc (02 Aug 08 12:00)
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De Vere-ing on to a new course
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By Laurence Gale MSc (02 Aug 08 10:00)
When the De Vere group purchased Oulton Park, just under three years ago, some heavy investment was required to bring the golf course back up to championship quality. - Read Article
Tournament play
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By Tim Lobb (31 Jul 08 10:00)
Next time you are standing on the tee of the 18th hole at your golf course, try and imagine this situation. You are leading Tiger Woods by a single stroke in the Masters, and have the honour on the final tee in the last round. You sense the expectation in the gallery closed tightly around the tee, you can feel Tiger’s glare burning into your skull as he surveys you going through your pre-shot routine. - Read Article
Deere’s Open support for Royal Birkdale
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By Steve Mitchell (30 Jul 08 14:00)
As Royal Birkdale’s course manager Chris Whittle and his team dealt with the aftermath of this year’s Open Championship – he reckons the course should be completely clear by the end of August – Chris took time to reflect on the tournament support they received from John Deere and local dealer Turner Groundscare of Tarvin, near Chester. - Read Article
Headland's Trees Offset Carbon Footprint
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By Carol Dutton (26 Jul 08 10:00)
More than 600 trees have been planted on golf courses all over the UK as a result of Headland Amenity’s initiative designed to offset the company’s carbon footprint. - Read Article
