Magazine - Issue 39 - October / November 2011

Astbury Hall Head Greenkeeper, Sean Jarvis, is rocking all over the course!
2 Jan 2012 - Golf - Editor - Issue 39 - Oct / Nov 2011
It’s not very often, if at all, that visitors to a golf club’s website are blasted with heavy metal, but that’s the case when you visit www.astburygolfclub.com, for the owner of Astbury Hall Golf Club is none other than KK Downing, former lead guitarist of rock band Judas Priest

Vine Lane is the home of RAF Cricket
28 Dec 2011 - Cricket - Tom James - Issue 39 - Oct / Nov 2011 - 4 comments
At seventy-three years young, Doug New came to groundsmanship late in life, following a career in Fleet Street. Here, he tells Tom James about the mistakes he has made along the way, and the support he has received from local professional groundsmen

Sustainable management leads to year round play at Lymm Golf Club
26 Dec 2011 - Golf - Laurence Gale MSc - Issue 39 - Oct / Nov 2011
When Stuart Yarwood went to Lymm Golf Club at the turn of the century, he found a course maintenance regime that was both unsustainable and costly. Now, using more traditional greenkeeping skills, he has been able to provide the members with a course that is playable all year round

New turf creates 'roof top' park at Arundel Square
24 Dec 2011 - Local Authority - Carol Dutton - Issue 39 - Oct / Nov 2011
Lindum Turf and Barenbrug have created a new turf to meet the needs of a complex park project in the London borough of Islington. Here, Carol Dutton explains how the whole project came to fruition with excellent results

The anatomy of a golf course - Bunkers
23 Dec 2011 - Golf - Andy Watson - Issue 39 - Oct / Nov 2011
The bunker within a golf course provides many functions. It is principally a hazard and the clearest dictator of the strategy of a golf hole, but it can also be a target or provide an aesthetic. In this article, Andy Watson (Andy Watson Golf Design) will consider the golf course architect’s considerations when designing these features and factors that determine the placement of a bunker.

Queenborough Bowling Club in the safe hands of greenkeeper John Crouch
21 Dec 2011 - Bowls - Neville Johnson - Issue 39 - Oct / Nov 2011
Coming up to seventy, in groundcare work all his life, and as competitive as it comes, that’s John Crouch the greenkeeper at Queenborough Bowling Club on Kent’s Isle of Sheppey.

Adrian Kay - overseeing trackworks at York Racecourse
19 Dec 2011 - Racing - Laurence Gale MSc - Issue 39 - Oct / Nov 2011
Adrian Kay has been Head Groundsman at York Racecourse for a little over five years. In that time, he has not only changed the maintenance regimes, bringing in new equipment to help him achieve that, he has developed his Assistant, John Morley, so John can head up the team at Beverley, and also overseen an enormous trackworks project designed to deliver more consistent and hopefully improved going.

St Enodoc - a golf course that is sheer poetry
17 Dec 2011 - Golf - Ellie Parry - Issue 39 - Oct / Nov 2011 - 2 comments
‘All things draw towards St. Enodoc’, so said the late Poet Laureate, Sir John Betjeman CBE. He felt compelled to write about the Cornish Links course, most notably in his poem, ‘Seaside golf’, and, having chatted with Course Manager Scott Gibson, so was Ellie Parry

Remedial work at Leigh Sports Village
15 Dec 2011 - General Sports - Laurence Gale MSc - Issue 39 - Oct / Nov 2011
When Keith Porter became Head Groundsman at Leigh Sports Village, he inherited a few problems with the winter sports pitches. Now, after much remedial work, all the pitches are highly rated by all who use them.

Stars turn out at Hampstead Cricket Club
13 Dec 2011 - Cricket - Neville Johnson - Issue 39 - Oct / Nov 2011
Neville Johnson sees how an Aussie with a Lord’s pedigree looks after a cricket ground with a showbiz link, yet village feel, in the heart of London

Waterloo Bowls Club in need of a financial boost
11 Dec 2011 - Bowls - John Richards - Issue 39 - Oct / Nov 2011
It’s grim up north - and it certainly was the day John Richards attended the Waterloo Championships Finals at Blackpool in September. He found a venue in some serious need of a financial boost to keep it going

A question of balance for your soil
10 Dec 2011 - Consultancy - Andrew Turnbull BSc (Hons) - Issue 39 - Oct / Nov 2011
Andrew Turnbull, Technical Director of The Great Turf Company, discusses the importance of a carbon/nitrogen balance in the soil and how various organisms can affect the equilibrium

Tending the grounds at Port Sunlight
9 Dec 2011 - Local Authority - Laurence Gale MSc - Issue 39 - Oct / Nov 2011
Port Sunlight is unique, and is considered to be one of the finest surviving examples of early urban planning in the UK. The late 19th Century village was built by William Hesketh Lever (later Viscount Leverhulme) to house his soap factory workers at Lever Brothers, the company that eventually formed part of the global conglomerate, Unilever.

Bill Clutterbuck - the legend at Guildford Cricket Club
7 Dec 2011 - Cricket - Laurence Gale MSc - Issue 39 - Oct / Nov 2011 - 6 comments
Bill Clutterbuck has just completed his sixteenth season at the Guildford Cricket Club’s Woodbridge Road ground, and he is one of the stalwarts of the Surrey Cricket Groundsman’s Association. He has also recently become one of Pitchcare’s trainers, so his experience is in demand wherever he goes.

Snow - should you remove it or leave it where it is?
5 Dec 2011 - Golf - Ian Tomlinson - Issue 39 - Oct / Nov 2011
During the last two winters there has been lots of talk about snow on greens. Should you remove it or leave it where it is?

New stadium for St Helens Rugby League Club
3 Dec 2011 - Rugby - Laurence Gale MSc - Issue 39 - Oct / Nov 2011
St Helens RLFC are nearing the completion of their new St Helens Stadium, which will officially open next January in time for the 2012 Super League season.