Charts Hill Golf Club
This has to have been the wettest of wet summers. Neville Johnson visited Chart Hills Golf Club, a gem of a Kentish course, in a rare break from the torrents...
in Golf - on 18/10/12
This has to have been the wettest of wet summers. Neville Johnson visited Chart Hills Golf Club, a gem of a Kentish course, in a rare break from the torrents...
in Golf - on 18/10/12
Whitgift School in South Croydon is an independent school for boys and has a strong sporting pedigree. The pitches within the school’s forty acres of...
in Schools & Colleges - on 3/8/12
We last featured Clerk of the Course, Ed Arkell, in charge of the National Hunt course at Fontwell Park. For over half the year, his attention – or at...
in Equestrian - on 22/7/12
A Yorkshireman, who settled in Kent for cricket reasons (not too many of them!), but Peter Robinson did just that. Amongst several areas of vigorous involvement...
in Industry News - on 6/5/12
Neville Johnson heads to the University of Kent’s Canterbury campus to meet Paul Griffiths, the man whose job it is to see that the grounds always get...
in Schools & Colleges - on 30/4/12
Neville Johnson looks at how one of Britain’s most popular fine turf sports gets support from its governing body, as local authority cash dries up and...
in Bowls - on 25/1/12
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...
in Bowls - on 21/12/11
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
in Cricket - on 13/12/11
Neville Johnson visits the south coast to see a non-league pitch and its award winning groundsman who’s given a new meaning to whole hearted support
in Football - on 23/10/11
Neville Johnson visited Caterham School in Surrey to talk to Head Groundsman, John Dodwell, about his work there, his unusual route into the profession,...
in Schools & Colleges - on 3/8/11
Neville Johnson sees that the ravages of winter hadn’t shaken preparations for golf's oldest ‘major’, but had stirred the desire for perfection
in Golf - on 17/6/11
Royal St Georges, Sandwich is one of the great links courses, the ultimate in natural testing conditions, but it is also a delightfully private and understated...
in Golf - on 9/4/11
Neville Johnson walks the course at one of the south of England’s foremost National Hunt venues, Fontwell Park, where December’s turf wipe-out turned...
in Equestrian - on 23/3/11
At a time of cuts, cuts and more cuts, looking after the pitch for non-league clubs is getting to be more cost sensitive than ever. Neville Johnson visited...
in Football - on 11/2/11