Just like a big garden
The principal volunteer groundsperson at Willenhall Rugby Union Football Club is 44-year-old Iain Athersmith. He’s a big guy with an even bigger beard....
in Rugby - on 6/8/18
The principal volunteer groundsperson at Willenhall Rugby Union Football Club is 44-year-old Iain Athersmith. He’s a big guy with an even bigger beard....
in Rugby - on 6/8/18
Separated by a drystone wall from cervine Lyme Park, the golf course at Shrigley Hall Hotel and Spa has a taxing pest problem: its resident deer herd enjoys...
in Golf - on 26/7/18
Under relatively new ownership, it is all change at the Kingsholm Stadium, home of Gloucester Rugby. As well as a new corporate identity - including a...
in Rugby - on 18/7/18
The Professional Grounds Team of the Year (Cricket) 2014, are experts in flood management. At Worcestershire County Cricket Club, nobody is a stranger...
in Cricket - on 4/7/18
Maintaining the grounds at the Royal Grammar School Worcester holds unique pressure, not just due to the acreage but because the school is the sixth-oldest...
in Cricket - on 25/6/18
Lying beneath the imposing Gwyrch Castle is Abergele Golf Club, which recently won a national environmental award, and has protected myriad animals, including...
in Golf - on 18/6/18
Chris Long is now the Head of Grounds at the University of Leicester. But, as is the case for a surprising number, just to transfer from greens to grounds...
in Football - on 13/6/18
It is said that it was at the University of Cambridge’s cricket ground Fenner’s that the very first ‘striping of grass’ was publicly conducted,...
in Cricket - on 8/6/18
Nefyn and District Golf Club is in Peter Alliss’ top-10 courses globally because of the views on its breathtaking, world-famous peninsula - but none...
in Golf - on 4/6/18
AFC Telford United play in the Natonal League North and, at the time of writing, were involved in a relegation battle with five other clubs. Jake Barrow...
in Football - on 30/5/18
Jake Barrow is sent to Coventry to catch up with Ashley Bulpitt, the Head Greenkeeper at Copsewood Grange Golf Club. A nine-hole course too close for comfort...
in Golf - on 21/5/18
Royal Dornoch Golf Club’s two courses lie on the exposed north-east coast of Scotland. To reach this area takes a four hour drive from Edinburgh and...
in Golf - on 7/5/18
Hampstead Golf Club, consisting of nine holes, a practice area and with no room to expand, is the closest full-sized golf facility to central London. It...
in Golf - on 23/4/18
Jake Barrow headed to Newtown, the largest town in Powys, but with a population hovering around 12,500. Surrounded by difficult to pronounce villages (unless...
in Cricket - on 16/4/18
In the affluent North London borough of Barnet, football has always been a major concern. The area is known around the world for its consistent concentration...
in Football - on 13/4/18
At Wigan Golf Club, there has been a long history of sustaining on-site wildlife, and the grounds were recently flagged as a potential stronghold for one...
in Golf - on 28/3/18
As the last of the December snow cleared from the West Midlands, Jake Barrow headed to a cold Penn Golf Club in Wolverhampton to find out how its new (ish)...
in Golf - on 26/3/18
It is commonly believed that The Wednesday Cricket Club was formed in 1820. The club was so named because it was on Wednesdays that the founding members...
in Football - on 23/3/18
The Head Groundsman at Ealing Cricket Club has two jobs - he is also a doctorate-educated, elected Councillor for the Walpole ward. Jake Barrow meets Gareth...
in Cricket - on 16/3/18
Every golf course has its selling features and its resources. At the only golf course in the Welsh village of Betws-yn-Rhos, for example, there is wind...
in Golf - on 9/3/18