NCG chats to trainee Nick Gardener about the life of a greenkeeper… Course: Broadway Golf Club Name: Nick Gardener Position: Trainee greenkeeper You were a professional golfer. What brought you into greenkeeping? I was looking for a job and I was considering going back to university to train as a teacher. I went to my […]
A free trip to Headingley beckons for members of the Lincolnshire Cricket Groundsmen’s Association. The association is providing free transport from Lincoln to the Yorkshire stadium on Monday (March 27) to meet award-winning head groundsman Andy Foggerty and to learn about his pre-season preparations. Members will then visit the rugby ground next door to speak […]
In a statement last week, the Amenity Sector welcomed the ECHA’s committee for risk assessment statement that glyphosate is not a carcinogen, mutagen or toxic. This re-affirms previous statements and conclusions. The adopted opinion will go through a normal editorial check before it is sent to the European Commission. This is an important stage in […]
“BRAINLESS idiots” on quad bikes have left a golf club facing a bill of up to £10,000 after badly damaging two greens. Queensbury Golf Club was targeted by three people on quad bikes on Saturday. Club secretary Richard Guest said: “We are absolutely distraught. They have destroyed the third green. They have also damaged the […]
When Warrington Golf Club’s course was struck by lightning the voltage burnt out its 30-year-old irrigation controller and the club found itself in the market for a new system, which is where Bailoy stepped in. Warrington Golf Club course manager John McLoughlin explains: “The lightning picked up one of the irrigation cables and burnt out […]
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