Magazine: Golf

Going out on a Lymm!
26th May 2008 - Golf - Stuart Yarwood - Issue 18 - Apr / May 2008 - 5 comments
The story of a Gingerbread Man

Paul on a mission!
25th May 2008 - Golf - Paul Lowe - Issue 18 - Apr / May 2008 - 2 comments
Climbing the ‘sustainable ladder’ whilst still reaching the high expectations of members will always be difficult, but this is the mission at Bromborough Golf Club where Paul Lowe took over as Head Greenkeeper just eight months ago. His findings to date have been very interesting.

Inside the ropes at Augusta National
15th May 2008 - Golf - Jeff Foulger - Issue 18 - Apr / May 2008
My first memory of Augusta National Golf Club was sitting in front of the TV with my dad, watching Ian Woosnam win The Masters in 1991. I had no idea what went into making that place look so perfect. But I do now, thanks to Mike O’Keeffe and The Ohio State University Programme. They got me in here for an experience of a lifetime.

Green Fingers
8th May 2008 - Golf - Tim Lobb
With the planet’s temperature rising and worldwide concerns over ‘global warming’ and ‘carbon footprint,’ Tim Lobb, of renowned golf course architecture practice Thomson Perrett & Lobb, tells us just how green is golf? And what are course designers doing to help save the planet?

Ransomes Jacobsen support company's Czech Greenkeeper exchange visit
5th May 2008 - Golf - Peter Driver
Ransomes Jacobsen, the UK’s leading turf maintenance equipment manufacturer, has supported an exchange visit of Czech greenkeepers organised and facilitated by The Club Company.

A marriage made in Devon!
22nd Apr 2008 - Golf - Editor
David Wood must enjoy a challenge. Having got out of dairy farming, he bought 125 acres in South Devon to build a golf course. A brave, some would say foolhardy, move considering he knew precious little about the game.

Draining The Lakes
20th Apr 2008 - Golf - Jim Crabbe - Issue 17 - Feb / Mar 2008
Moor Allerton Golf Club, situated between Leeds and Harrogate, was designed by Robert Trent Jones Senior in the 1960s. The club professionals have included Peter Allis and Howard Clarke.

Developing a sustainable mindset ...
17th Apr 2008 - Golf - Simon Freeman - Issue 17 - Feb / Mar 2008 - 4 comments
Laid out in 1891 by pioneering designer Willie Campbell, and respected among golfing cognoscenti, The Machrie on the Isle of Islay is regarded as one of the world’s top links courses.

Island hopping taken to extremes!
16th Apr 2008 - Golf - Simon Freeman - Issue 17 - Feb / Mar 2008
Shaping 72 bunkers in six weeks over the course of two winters may seem like a ridiculous project to take on, but, in fairness to everyone involved in the renovation of Castletown Golf Links on the Isle of Man, it wasn’t originally supposed to work out like that.