Wallace and done it...
Dark days and bright times have both run through the career of Graham Wallace, but 2017 marks a dual celebration for this lifelong greenkeeping professional....
in Golf - on 27/10/17
Dark days and bright times have both run through the career of Graham Wallace, but 2017 marks a dual celebration for this lifelong greenkeeping professional....
in Golf - on 27/10/17
Rain certainly does not stop play at one of Northern Ireland’s oldest cricket clubs, as Chris McCullough found out when he visited the Carrickfergus...
in Cricket - on 25/10/17
Lee Kristensen is a product manager at Ransomes Jacobsen discusses the decline in cylinder municipal mowing, and why we shouldn’t abandon the concept...
in Machinery & Mechanics - on 23/10/17
Known as ‘Commem’ (short for ‘Commemoration Day’), the leavers’ celebration at Magdalen College School, Oxford was a predictable success. Contrary...
in Training & Education - on 20/10/17
Water can be one of the most valuable landscape features on golf courses and in parks, with aesthetic and environmental value, adding to leisure opportunities...
in Conservation & Ecology - on 18/10/17
Built on little more than barren farmland, a shoestring budget and one man’s unfulfilled hopes of owning an M5 service station, Gaudet Luce Golf Club...
in Golf - on 16/10/17
Once a county outground and with redevelopment plans to help get May’s Bounty back on the Hampshire fixture list, cricket owes it a debt of gratitude....
in Cricket - on 13/10/17
Syngenta Turf Technical Manager, Marcela Munoz, highlights the challenges of dynamic disease populations within turf surfaces, and the role of the new...
in Golf - on 9/10/17
Derek Fullerton BSc (Hons), Murrayfield Golf Club, explores the possibilities that exist in recycling course materials, produced from general maintenance...
in Conservation & Ecology - on 6/10/17
At Walsall Football Club, a team of just three men maintain six professional pitches. Jake Barrow’s report includes that team’s preparations for...
in Football - on 4/10/17
Are we all doing enough to minimise water wastage? No matter what your surface, be it a golf course, sports pitch, training ground, park or large garden,...
in Drainage & Irrigation - on 2/10/17
Dave Saltman, turf maintenance contractor for Shrewsbury Town Football Club and Managing Director of Pitchcare, spoke to us about his pitch-fixing following...
in Football - on 27/9/17
A busy programme with tight recovery windows means that Catterick Racecourse’s turf surfaces require plenty of tender loving care. Jane Carley headed...
in Equestrian - on 25/9/17
Pitchcare visited the Cheltenham Cricket Festival at Cheltenham College, which annually serves as the home of Gloucestershire County Cricket Club.
in Schools & Colleges - on 20/9/17
Alun Hughes on a night in with his wife and a snooker table... one day!
in Golf - on 18/9/17
Blackwood Golf Club is over one hundred years old and set in beatiful undulating terrain. Head Greenkeeper Alun Hughes talks to Kerry Haywood about the...
in Golf - on 18/9/17
With water now a valuable and increasingly expensive commodity, it makes perfect sense to review ways that savings may be made, especially where irrigation...
in Conservation & Ecology - on 15/9/17
Grounds Training Tutor and Careers Counsellor Frank Newberry reports on how much time is taken by staff doing non-work matters like checking personal emails,...
in Editorial - on 13/9/17
Stoke City Football Club Grounds Manager, Andy Jackson, explains how they have opted to extend the luxury of Grassmaster to yet another of its training...
in Football - on 11/9/17
Whilst this may seem a dry subject, it is really important that we all are aware of, and understand, the basics here. There are several areas of legislation...
in Conservation & Ecology - on 8/9/17