Puckrup getting better
Richard Jones, 37, is the Golf Course Manager at Hilton Puckrup Hall Hotel in Tewkesbury. Here, he talks Iprodione, drainage, fairway renovation and more...
in Golf - on 28/1/19
Richard Jones, 37, is the Golf Course Manager at Hilton Puckrup Hall Hotel in Tewkesbury. Here, he talks Iprodione, drainage, fairway renovation and more...
in Golf - on 28/1/19
On the Wrexham road out of the beautiful city of Chester lies The King’s School. The school motto is “The King gave it, may God bless it”. Jake Barrow...
in Football - on 15/12/18
Situated on the ‘windy’ bit of the north-west coast of England, Southport Football Club is but a stone’s throw from many more famous clubs, yet has...
in Football - on 29/11/18
41-year-old Matthew Robbins manages golf at the Telford Hotel and Golf Resort, which sits atop the valley sometimes considered the spiritual birthplace...
in Golf - on 12/11/18
With the help of a strong squad, Dave Harvey and ALS Contracts, ambitious Gary ‘Patch’ Patchett, 57, hopes to contribute to a swift promotion for Halesowen...
in Cricket - on 9/11/18
A year ago, Willesley Park Golf Club sought a course shake-up, so it made a familiar greenkeeper acting head, and he began reformatting its treelines,...
in Golf - on 5/11/18
Regarded as one of the finest courses in the northwest, Manchester Golf Club’s Course Manager Matt Shimwell and his team have their work cut out to manage...
in Golf - on 24/10/18
Abingdon School and its campus are an integral part of the Oxfordshire town. Jake Barrow caught up with Head Groundsman Richard Hagar to discuss the logistics...
in Cricket - on 22/10/18
Sixty-seven year old ex-accountant Stephen Daniels has been involved with Feckenham Cricket Club for fifty-five years, just four years fewer than the club...
in Cricket - on 17/10/18
Minchinhampton Golf Club has grown considerably in recent decades, having begun on a single common land site and, with such an ideal location, it shows...
in Golf - on 8/10/18
Astwood Bank Cricket Club’s Brad Jefferies is a young man. In fact, he’s only recently become a man. He’s maintained Astwood for the last few months...
in Cricket - on 5/10/18
The John Fretwell Sporting Complex is managed by The Warsop Sporting Trust which is operated by volunteer trustees from the organisations who use the complex....
in Cricket - on 24/9/18
Bath Spa University’s main campus is a safe-haven for perhaps the UK’s most treasured and iconic amphibian group: the smooth, palmate and great crested...
in Schools & Colleges - on 14/9/18
Hosting two professional rugby clubs at AJ Bell Stadium, one of the 13-man code and one of the 15-, Dan Huffman, 50, has studs and scrums on his surface...
in Rugby - on 12/9/18
RT Machinery’s annual open day came with a real difference this year: the company was presented with a coveted Royal Warrant for services to the Royal...
in Industry News - on 10/9/18
Sixty-three-year-old David Winter is only the fourth head greenkeeper at Monmouthshire Golf Club since 1892. To understate, the position’s turnover rate...
in Golf - on 5/9/18
We’ve had a couple of requests for autumn renovation advice from those cricket clubs on the tightest budgets, and thought we’d put a little something...
in Cricket - on 22/8/18
This is how Welshpool Golf Club describes itself; “so unexpected, so unlike anything else”, its website proudly states. Jake Barrow headed to the mid-Wales...
in Golf - on 20/8/18
Originally designed to be demolished after the games, the Olympic Stadium is now providing a modern home for West Ham United. Renamed the London Stadium,...
in Football - on 11/8/18
The Dennis/SISIS Cricket Renovation Day 2018 threw up some challenges the groundspersons present: ‘are you missing out on vital modern techniques?’...
in Cricket - on 8/8/18