http://www.pitchcare.com/ The most recent 20 Sports News articles of Pitchcare, the online magazine for Groundsmen and Greenkeepers Copyright 2008 Pitchcare.com Ltd mail@pitchcare.com mail@pitchcare.com en Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:44:57 +0100 Pitchcare's Custom Grown in House CMS 60 http://www.pitchcare.com/images/general/newlogo.png http://www.pitchcare.com/ 22 23 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Saturday Sunday Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:00:00 GMT A Sutherland football club is desperately trying to find a way to get urgently-needed drainage work carried out on its pitch, which is frequently too wet and muddy to be used for home games. - mail@pitchcare.com (Press Release) http://www.pitchcare.com/magazine/article/5523 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:00:00 GMT 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. - mail@pitchcare.com (Press Release) http://www.pitchcare.com/magazine/article/5522 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:00:00 GMT 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. - mail@pitchcare.com (Press Release) http://www.pitchcare.com/magazine/article/5520 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:00:00 GMT 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. - mail@pitchcare.com (Press Release) http://www.pitchcare.com/magazine/article/5521 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:00:00 GMT 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 regions 80-plus clubs can survive. - mail@pitchcare.com (Press Release) http://www.pitchcare.com/magazine/article/5519 Sat, 23 Aug 2008 08:00:00 GMT SCARBOROUGH Groundsman Mick Stewart says North Marine Road will be ready for the 122nd annual cricket festival. mail@pitchcare.com (Press Release) http://www.pitchcare.com/magazine/article/5517 Sat, 23 Aug 2008 10:25:00 GMT One of the key issues we often see during our visits to schools and local authorities is the limited resources available to maintain sports pitches. This article looks at the issues involved with pitches and seeks to give ideas of how maintenance could be modified to maximise playability and minimise wear. - mail@pitchcare.com (Steve Gingell) http://www.pitchcare.com/magazine/article/5511 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:00:00 GMT 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. mail@pitchcare.com (Ellie Tait) http://www.pitchcare.com/magazine/article/5516 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:00:00 GMT A brand new pitch has also seen the introduction of a new maintenance regime at Rangers FCs Ibrox stadium, who signed their first ever machinery deal with John Deere dealer Nairn Brown Limited of Busby at the end of last year. - mail@pitchcare.com (Steve Mitchell) http://www.pitchcare.com/magazine/article/5507 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT St Andrews, Scotland, 5 August 2008 The RA has today announced revisions to golfs equipment Rules, which are designed to enhance the benefits of accuracy by making playing from the rough a more challenging prospect in future. - mail@pitchcare.com (Press Release) http://www.pitchcare.com/magazine/article/5502 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 02:00:00 GMT The popular SISIS Quadraplay began life in the late 1970s as the Truplay. Lynn Hilton charts the machines progress into one of todays most useful pieces of kit in the groundsmans armoury - mail@pitchcare.com (Lynn Hilton) http://www.pitchcare.com/magazine/article/5498 Sun, 17 Aug 2008 03:00:00 GMT YARA UK Limited, Environmental Turf Technology and Bolton Wanderers have joined together to create the "Be our Guests Bolton Wanderers" initiative, a community team project offering community based organisations and charities free tickets to every Premier League match at the Reebok Stadium for the 2008-09 season. - mail@pitchcare.com (Press Release) http://www.pitchcare.com/magazine/article/5499 Sun, 17 Aug 2008 12:15:00 GMT 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. - mail@pitchcare.com (Peter Driver) http://www.pitchcare.com/magazine/article/5493 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 07:25:00 GMT Durham groundsman David Measor saw the Riverside pitch come in for criticism last week from Kent. Despite the England and Wales Cricket Board taking no action Cricket Writer Tim Wellock discovers a man battling constant suspicions about the square at Chester-le-Street. - mail@pitchcare.com (Press Release) http://www.pitchcare.com/magazine/article/5495 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:00:00 GMT 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. mail@pitchcare.com (Peter Driver) http://www.pitchcare.com/magazine/article/5492 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:00:00 GMT THE weather may be taxing cricket's groundsmen at the moment but the man who tends Bolton-le-Sands' wicket has been to the top for advice. mail@pitchcare.com (Press Release) http://www.pitchcare.com/magazine/article/5496 Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:45:00 GMT 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. mail@pitchcare.com (Editor) http://www.pitchcare.com/magazine/article/5447 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:00:00 GMT A new bio-stimulant that boosts the turfs natural defence mechanisms has helped keep fusarium at bay and cut winter fungicide bills by 3-4000 at Chipping Sodbury Golf Course. - mail@pitchcare.com (Mike Saull) http://www.pitchcare.com/magazine/article/5483 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:00:00 GMT 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. - mail@pitchcare.com (Press Release) http://www.pitchcare.com/magazine/article/5481 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:00:00 GMT Warwickshire want wicket keeper Tony Frost to delay his return to his career as a groundsman and play one more season as a batsman. - mail@pitchcare.com (Press Release) http://www.pitchcare.com/magazine/article/5477