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Dennis Mower adds up for Haverhill CC
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BLEC forced into administration
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BLEC forced into administration
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A far cry from Fartown!
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Close Season Maintenance of a cricket square
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McKenzie has grand designs for ‘Welsh Olympics’ in 2010
25th Sep 2008 -
Golf -
Press Release
Now that the dust has settled after the heat of battle at Valhalla, the Ryder Cup greenkeeping baton has been passed firmly to Scot Jim McKenzie, the director of golf courses at Celtic Manor in Wales, where the 38th contest will be held in 2010.
Tournament preparation
22nd Sep 2008 -
Golf -
Pat Callaby
- Issue 20 - Aug / Sep 2008 - 1 comment
Patrick ‘Cal’ Callaby is Workshop Manager at the Celtic Manor Resort in South Wales. Whether it’s a full on televised tournament or just a ‘special event’ a heightened level of care is required on the course.
In this article Cal explains how Celtic Manor staff operate during the Wales Open.
Harrington Makes it Back to Back Open Championships
17th Sep 2008 -
Golf -
Finbarr o'Mahony
Finbarr O’Mahony, Assistant at Kanturk Golf Club, gives an account of what it was like working with the B.I.G.G.A. Support Team at this year's Open Championship at Royal Birkdale.
A Difficult Time for us all ...
16th Sep 2008 -
Golf -
Duncan McGilvray
The present financial situation in our sector has changed for the worse, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. So, rather than allow it to engulf us, we can become much more savvy and work through it by doing a few simple things - the most important one being to stay positive.
Cup clean up after storm
15th Sep 2008 -
Golf -
Press Release
A clean-up operation was under way at the Ryder Cup venue on Monday after the remnants of Hurricane Ike ripped through Louisville.
Surrey National purchase the New E-Z-GO RXV golf car
15th Sep 2008 -
Golf -
Peter Driver
The Surrey National Golf Club, part of the Altonwood Golf Group owned by former Crystal Palace Football Club Chairman Ron Noades, has purchased a fleet of 17 RXV golf cars, the latest model from E-Z-GO launched earlier this year. Local dealer, Ernest Doe & Sons, has also delivered a further 16 RXVs to Westerham Golf Club.
Largest golf resort in Europe chooses the new E-Z-GO RXV golf car
13th Sep 2008 -
Golf -
Peter Driver
The biggest golf resort in Europe, which also features the largest golf school in the world, has chosen the new E-Z-GO RXV as its preferred golf car.
Large E-Z-GO Golf car fleet for Barnham Broom Golf & Country Club
12th Sep 2008 -
Golf -
Peter Driver
Barnham Broom Golf & Country Club, situated in rolling Norfolk countryside just 15 minutes from Norwich city centre, has recently taken delivery of a fleet of 25 E-Z-GO golf cars from local dealer Bartram Mowers.
Balls found inside 'rattling' dog
5th Sep 2008 -
Golf -
Press Release
A dog had to have 13 golf balls removed from its stomach after eating them on walks around a Fife course.
September Golf Diary
2nd Sep 2008 -
Golf -
Laurence Gale MSc
September Golf Diary
Vandals tear up golf green
1st Sep 2008 -
Golf -
Press Release
Vandals broke into Dorking Golf Club and caused more than £10,000 damage to one of the greens during a bank holiday crime spree.
Golf - a soft target?
31st Aug 2008 -
Golf -
Peter Britton
- Issue 20 - Aug / Sep 2008 - 4 comments
Why is it that golf courses, and golfers, attracts such bad press? What makes intelligent people go off on ill-informed, high profile diatribes about a sport they often, clearly, know nothing about?
Lee Westwood sees red over Gleneagles' greens
29th Aug 2008 -
Golf -
Press Release
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.
Time for operators to think the unthinkable and pool resources?
28th Aug 2008 -
Golf -
Press Release
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.
St Andrews Links' new Castle Course reports busy opening month
27th Aug 2008 -
Golf -
Press Release
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.
Golf clubs face the prospect of being left in the bunker
27th Aug 2008 -
Golf -
Press Release
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.
MJ Abbott to feature in television documentary
22nd Aug 2008 -
Golf -
Ellie Tait
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.
The R&A Announces New Golf Club Rules
19th Aug 2008 -
Golf -
Press Release
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.
Ransomes Jacobsen training for Greenkeepers in Austria
17th Aug 2008 -
Golf -
Peter Driver
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.
Valhalla Golf club gets ready for the Ryder Cup
15th Aug 2008 -
Golf -
Peter Driver
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.
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