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Remedial work at the SWALEC Stadium
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Remedial work at the SWALEC Stadium
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Saracens handed pitch boost
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High Praise from the 'Home of golf' for TORO
19 Nov 2008 -
Golf -
Lesley Walker
St Andrews Links has recently renewed its Toro agreement, with links superintendent, Gordon Moir, saying that the Toro equipment the ‘Home of Golf’ exclusively uses to maintain its greens and tees has “proved extremely reliable and allowed the Links Trust to present the golf courses to the standard golfers expect.”
Dennis Mower adds up for Haverhill CC
19 Nov 2008 -
Cricket -
Holly Harvey
- 1 comment
A groundsman whose day job is as a financial adviser could be expected to know value for money when he sees it. So Michael Rinaldi is delighted with the new Dennis FT510 in which Haverhill Cricket Club has invested.
Power and performance from New Holland’s T5000
19 Nov 2008 -
Industry -
Holly Harvey
New Holland’s latest T5000 Series tractors bring new levels of power and efficiency to groundcare contractors, local authorities, golf courses and turf growers.
A turn of fraise
19 Nov 2008 -
Consultancy -
Dr Christian Spring
The control of Annual Meadow-Grass on professional football pitches. Football pitches are usually sown with perennial ryegrass as the dominant grass species due to its hard-wearing nature and favourable playing characteristics.
Weather ruining our golf courses (just don't tell Donald Trump)
19 Nov 2008 -
Golf -
Press Release
Greenkeepers at some of the country's most prestigious courses said they had been struggling to keep their venues open because this year's weather had been so bad.
Open legend underlines importance of sustainable golf course design
19 Nov 2008 -
Golf -
Press Release
Thomson Perrett & Lobb, the international golf course architecture practice founded by five times Open Champion Peter Thomson with partners Ross Perrett and Tim Lobb, has underlined its commitment to responsible development by issuing a ‘Sustainability Statement’.
Great Yarmouth backs a winner with New Holland
18 Nov 2008 -
Industry -
Press Release
Head Groundsman at Great Yarmouth racecourse for the past three years, Richard Bradley describes his New Holland TN75 utility tractor as his ‘right hand man’.
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Close Season Maintenance of a cricket square
18 Nov 2008 -
Cricket -
Andrew Clarke
- 3 comments
The end of season work has been carried out, square fenced off and everything stored away as the nights draw in and temperatures start to drop with the onset of winter.
Bats and lighting in the UK
18 Nov 2008 -
Consultancy -
Editor
This document is aimed at lighting engineers, lighting designers, planning officers, developers, bat workers and anyone specifying lighting. It is intended to raise awareness of the impacts of lighting on bats and mitigation is suggested for various scenarios.
Amended Planning Bill restores protection for green spaces
18 Nov 2008 -
General News -
Press Release
A threat to green spaces from the Government's draft Planning Bill has been averted today (18 November).
New business and development magazine for whole of the European golf industry
18 Nov 2008 -
Golf -
Press Release
Golf Business Development magazine (GBD) is a new trade journal with a mandate to shake up the European golf industry.
Dennis service is best for bowls
18 Nov 2008 -
Industry -
Holly Harvey
Capel St Mary Bowls Club near Stowmarket in Suffolk made the switch from a domestic mower to a Dennis Sport pedestrian cylinder just over a year ago and club secretary John Wright says that it has been a highly worthwhile move.
Clearing up Greens in double quick time
17 Nov 2008 -
Industry -
Mike Bird
Turf maintenance and renovation contracts have been transformed for Warwickshire-firm, Avonmore Associates, following the addition of a Turfmech SQRL walk-behind greens sweeper to the company’s machinery fleet.
Taking school sports into the 21st century
17 Nov 2008 -
Industry -
Holly Harvey
The Oldham Hulme Grammar Schools, values highly the role of sport in boosting pupils’ skills and health, offering activities ranging from football and cricket to table tennis and cross country running.
Jacobsen turf maintenance equipment saves hours at Forrest Park Resort
17 Nov 2008 -
Golf -
Peter Driver
Delivered by Ransomes Jacobsen’s Scottish dealer, Fairways GM, earlier this season as part of a turf maintenance machinery and golf car package, the Jacobsen LF3800 light fairway mowers is saving hours of greenkeeping time at Forrester Park Resort near Dunfermline.
So solid Crewe!
17 Nov 2008 -
Football -
Laurence Gale MSc
- 2 comments
John Huxley has been Head Groundsman at Crewe Alexandra for the past thirty years. He claims it is “the best bloody job in the world”. Not averse to the odd expletive, he talks to Pitchcare’s Laurence Gale MSc about his time with The Railway Men.
Scotts announces UK withdrawal of plant protection products containing dichlobenil
17 Nov 2008 -
Everris News -
Ellie Parry
Scotts Professional has received confirmation that the EU Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health voted for non-inclusion of dichlobenil in Annex I to Council Directive 91/414/EEC.
Cricket groundsman gives advice on cruise ship lawn
17 Nov 2008 -
Cricket -
Press Release
Mr Marron, who has looked after the ground at Old Trafford since 1975, said he thought it was a wind-up by his cricket chums when he received an invitation from the ship's owners, Celebrity Cruises.
A first for Hayter in Israel
17 Nov 2008 -
Industry -
Press Release
Hayter has delivered its first commercial mower to Israel via Toro distributor R T Cohen.
Historic Balmoral raises the standard
16 Nov 2008 -
Golf -
Steve Mitchell
Founded during the Great War in 1914, Balmoral Golf Club is situated right beside the Kings Hall Exhibition Centre, less than four miles from Belfast city centre.
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