A strange time!
Since March 2020, the phrase ‘a strange time’ has been used constantly to describe the world we are all currently living in. However, for Thorpeness...
in Golf - on 28/1/21
Since March 2020, the phrase ‘a strange time’ has been used constantly to describe the world we are all currently living in. However, for Thorpeness...
in Golf - on 28/1/21
Production of the first-ever HR800 has been completed at the Ransomes Jacobsen Centre of Excellence in Ipswich
in Industry News - on 18/12/20
For twenty-two and a half years, Mark Broughton has resided as Course Manager of Suffolk’s Aldeburgh Golf Club. It takes something special, and perhaps...
in Golf - on 30/10/20
During a typical Friday in June, the final preparations would usually be being made to the square at The Victory Ground but, instead, it is routine mowing...
in Cricket - on 21/10/20
It is quite rare that life goes full circle. Even more rare is a career in Greenkeeping that begins by jumping on a one-way flight to Australia with a...
in Golf - on 12/8/20
In the worlds of turf maintenance and sport, some things are different, and others are the same. The ultimate aim is to produce the best surface possible...
in Football - on 10/8/20
The impact of COVID-19 on sport across the world has been unprecedented. Almost every league in the world has been shut down, major tournaments have been...
in Football - on 22/7/20
Ford Sport and Social Club run two sites in Essex - at Basildon and Ilford. Blair Ferguson went to meet Dan James, the Head Groundsman at Ilford, to discover...
in Football - on 29/5/20
FIFA’s Pitch Management Manager, Alan Ferguson, briefly discusses how innovations in technology enabled communication around the world to plan for the...
in Football - on 21/5/20
The recent FIFA Under-17 World Cup in Brazil was the eighteenth edition of the competition. For the restructured FIFA pitch team, led by their Pitch Management...
in Football - on 20/3/20
Twenty-one turf professionals from across the UK and Ireland have completed the 2020 Future Turf Managers Initiative (FTMI) at Jacobsen’s Ipswich...
in Golf - on 19/3/20
In September 2019, Jim Buttar stepped into Twickenham for the first time as the Rugby Football Union’s Head Groundsperson – the man in charge of the...
in Rugby - on 2/3/20
Jacobsen has started a new era of end-user focused products with the launch of the AR530 rough mower
in Machinery & Mechanics - on 14/2/20
King’s Ely sits in the shadows of the city’s splendid cathedral and its location and history demands high standards are maintained at all times. Blair...
in Cricket - on 24/1/20
Jacobsen is set to launch the brand-new Eclipse 360 ELiTE, Eclipse 2 Lithium and AR730 at BTME 2020 today.
in Machinery & Mechanics - on 21/1/20
After greenkeepers and members became frustrated with the quality of cut and condition of the fairways at Lochemse Golf Club, head greenkeeper, Geert Olthuis,...
in Golf - on 20/12/19
Spring 2019 was a formative time for FIFA’s Pitch Management Manager, Alan Ferguson, as he and his extended team delivered the first two of four tournaments...
in Football - on 30/10/19
Felixtowe Ferry ’s Course Manager Glenn Rayfield is on something of a mission to return the only links layout in Suffolk to its traditional values with...
in Golf - on 18/10/19
Every year the Lawn Tennis Association and STRI visit lawn tennis clubs all over the country to assess their courts. In April 2019, they went to a Norfolk...
in Tennis - on 27/9/19
It would need to be something special to prise Peter Todd away from the London Club where he had 'grown' it to become a European Tour venue. So the opportunity...
in Golf - on 23/8/19