Golf de Biarritz
Golf de Biarritz ‘Le Phare’ was the brainchild of Victorian British aristocracy who wanted to play golf whilst on holiday in the upmarket French seaside...
in Golf - on 1/11/12
Golf de Biarritz ‘Le Phare’ was the brainchild of Victorian British aristocracy who wanted to play golf whilst on holiday in the upmarket French seaside...
in Golf - on 1/11/12
What had started as a dream, twelve months previously, for Simon Blagg became a reality on the 9th June 2012. This was when he and his colleague, Stephen...
in Golf - on 27/10/12
For a town with a population of just over 10,000, how do you judge the success of its main sports club? Certainly, if its junior rugby section is a gauge,...
in Rugby - on 22/10/12
Mike Shone leads a small team of three looking after the horticultural requirements of the fifty-five acre site at Shrewsbury NHS Hospital. Here, he explains...
in Public Places - on 20/10/12
Mr AKA Grasscutter, our anonymous football league head groundsman, takes a holiday in Florida and discovers that, even out there, the weather is an issue...
in Football - on 19/10/12
Ben Abbott - great white sharks, ironman triathlon ... and naming Rosie Jones just prior to the nuptiales - extreme!
in People - 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
Greater Manchester, like many other parts of the country, has suffered the wettest summer for decades, with areas that had never previously flooded before...
in Rugby - on 17/10/12
In this Olympic year, sport is truly synonymous with London’s Royal Parks - no less than eleven Olympic and Paralympic events took place in six parks...
in Public Places - on 15/10/12
Gordon Gill is the Head Groundsman at Bath Cricket Club, a delightfully picturesque ground just a short walk from the city centre. He is also an ECB Pitch...
in Cricket - on 13/10/12
Anyone heading into deepest Wales along the M4 can hardly fail to notice the imposing Celtic Manor Resort Hotel set atop Christchurch Hill overlooking...
in Golf - on 11/10/12
To date, scientific research into the maintenance of artificial grass pitches has been rather overlooked. Save for some notable exceptions - such as the...
in Synthetics - on 10/10/12
Standing tall and proud inside England’s last-remaining operational toll village lies an independent school rich in tradition. Tom James returns to the...
in Schools & Colleges - on 8/10/12
On the surface, apart from a thoroughly modern clubhouse and a sprawl of contemporary houses where once there was heathland, little appeared to have changed...
in Golf - on 6/10/12
Our editor talks about his involvement with his local rugby club, and how a ‘needs must’ mentally gets the job done, even if, sometimes, it goes against...
in Rugby - on 4/10/12
This year, Woodhouse Grove School is celebrating its bicentenary and has arranged a number of special events to mark the occasion. To tie in with that,...
in Schools & Colleges - on 2/10/12
Steve Oultram, Course Manager at Wilmslow Golf Club in Cheshire, believes the ‘old boys’ had it right when they talked about the pulling power of clay...
in Golf - on 30/9/12
Simon Taylor, UK Sales and Marketing Manager at Euro Grass BV, discusses how breeders are meeting the challenges of ever changing European legislation...
in Industry News - on 29/9/12
ECB pitch adviser, cricket groundsman and fine turf maintenance contractor. Three occupations, all undertaken by one man, Wayne Duggan, who is widely known...
in Cricket - on 25/9/12
Symbio’s Paul Lowe has a bit of rant about the state of grassroots football pitches, and suggests that it is time to have a coordinated plan in place...
in Football - on 23/9/12