Winter Play Revisited
Master Greenkeeper, Laurence Pithie, offers some useful advice on how courses can limit damage, both to greens and finances, during frosty and cold conditions...
in Golf - on 11/12/09
Master Greenkeeper, Laurence Pithie, offers some useful advice on how courses can limit damage, both to greens and finances, during frosty and cold conditions...
in Golf - on 11/12/09
The STRI's Steve Gingell examines the problems commonly found when growing in winter sports pitches and discusses a number of solutions. He says that it...
in Football - on 26/4/09
Paul Copsey has been the Course Manager at Orpington Golf Centre since August 1994. Comprising of two courses, Cray Valley and Ruxley Park, the two clubs...
in Golf - on 25/4/09
Royal West Norfolk Golf Club has a postal address of King’s Lynn but is, as the crow flies, closer to Skegness on the other side of the Wash. It is a...
in Golf - on 21/4/09
David McGregor is a former intern of the Ohio State University programme. As part of the programme he worked on the US President’s golf green at the...
in Golf - on 19/4/09
One of a new breed of young groundsmen, Leicester City’s Ed Mowe is taking some unusual action to ensure the players have the best possible surface to...
in Football - on 18/4/09
Altrincham FC’s Moss Lane playing surface has improved so much over recent years that, following a pre-season friendly, Manchester United reckoned it...
in Football - on 17/4/09
This is a story of history in the making. Last summer St Andrews Links Trust opened the seventh course at the ‘Home of Golf’. This is the story of...
in Golf - on 15/4/09
Featherstone Rovers Head Groundsman, Rob Smith, is struggling to maintain the [playing surface to the standard required by the club even though he regularly...
in Rugby - on 12/4/09
In the August/September issue of Pitchcare, Dr Kate Entwistle discussed the growing problem of plant parasitic nematodes in Europe. Why have nematodes...
in Consultancy - on 12/4/09
Barenbrug UK’s research and development manager, Jayne Leyland, explains why the specialist grass seed breeder always strives to go above and beyond...
in Industry News - on 11/4/09
Who are you? David Bateman (31) Assistant Greenkeeper at West Wilts Golf Club, Groundsman at Warminster Cricket Club and Wicketkeeper/Batsman for Warminster...
in Best of the Rest - on 10/4/09
When the media circus rolls into the Celtic Manor Resort, Director of Golf Courses, Jim McKenzie, and his team are ready and waiting to accommodate them....
in Golf - on 9/4/09
Lytham Cricket Club are in the process of creating a butterfly garden to further enhance the ecological work the club have undertaken. The three year project...
in Conservation & Ecology - on 7/4/09
Whether mineral or synthetic, the quality of oil used in any machine will have a major bearing on its performance and life expectancy. Here, Royal Melbourne...
in Best of the Rest - on 6/4/09
Fresh from being rated the top presenter at the EGU/GCMA Conference Programme at Harrogate Week, trainer Frank Newberry considers how leaders at all levels...
in Training & Education - on 5/4/09
What is the real cost of getting a game of cricket on? Here, three cricket groundsmen contemplate what clubs would have to pay if it were not for the sterling...
in Cricket - on 4/4/09
Liquid Aeration is a new inorganic oxygen technology that allows oxygen to be sprayed into the rootzone through a standard sprayer without any physical...
in Consultancy - on 1/4/09
Bailey’s of Norfolk is a family run business that has been supplying topsoil products to the sportsturf industry since 1976. When speaking to Managing...
in Industry News - on 29/3/09
A new project designed to reverse the desperate plight of bumblebees and pollinating insects in the UK, by restoring and creating valuable habitats on...
in Conservation & Ecology - on 26/3/09