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Primo Maxx offers opportunity to save

July 13, 2020/in News, Press Release/by Mark Sanderson

Primo Maxx offers opportunity to save: Greenkeepers and turf advisors can now find out the potential time and cost savings for individual courses using Primo Maxx II to reduce mowing requirements on fairways. The Primo Maxx Cost Calculator uses a club’s current costs and routine of fairway cutting, to give an instant answer for its potential savings from […]

Campey applies a touch of magic

July 10, 2020/in News, Press Release/by CharmianRobson

Campey applies a touch of magic: A renovation from Campey Turf Care Systems has brought a touch of magic to Sutton Upon Derwent Tennis Club’s two grass courts! The courts have played a prominent role in the club’s history and have been a feature since French Airmen originally founded it in the 1940s. When the […]

Primo Maxx offers opportunity to save

July 13, 2020/in News, Press Release/by Mark Sanderson

Campey applies a touch of magic

July 10, 2020/in News, Press Release/by CharmianRobson

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Primo Maxx offers opportunity to save

July 13, 2020/in News, Press Release/by Mark Sanderson

Primo Maxx offers opportunity to save: Greenkeepers and turf advisors can now find out the potential time and cost savings for individual courses using Primo Maxx II to reduce mowing requirements on fairways.

The Primo Maxx Cost Calculator uses a club’s current costs and routine of fairway cutting, to give an instant answer for its potential savings from a reduced frequency of mowing.

Primo Maxx offers opportunity to save

An independent survey of management on a range of golf courses revealed the average time taken to mow fairways was 11 man hours for each cut. For courses cutting fairways three times per week, the use of Primo Maxx II to eliminate one cut per week through the season could see potential machinery cost savings of over £3000 per year, along with more than £5000 value of labour input – which could be better utilsed for more valuable roles.

The calculator allows users to input their own costs for labour – for operating and machinery maintenance – the cost of fuel, repairs and mower depreciation.

Syngenta Technical Manager, Glenn Kirby, highlighted fairways are the largest areas of playing surface on the golf course, and for many take the greatest amount of labour to cut and manage.

“The calculator enables club’s to look more closely at techniques to reduce labour or lift turf quality. This allows labour to be redirected to other areas as well as reducing maintenance costs and extending the life of machinery.

“We have seen from the results of the STRI Lockdown Trial that there is real potential for lower intensity turf management, whilst retaining turf quality and playability,” Glenn reported.

“Primo Maxx II is integral to reducing workloads and managing costs.” The STRI trials showed an average 35% reduction in turf growth from the treatment programmes.

Glenn pointed out that using the calculator can demonstrate Primo Maxx II use to reduce mowing will also lower the wear and tear on machines and potentially extend their working life. “These are hidden costs that are rarely looked at, but can make a significant difference to the financial challenges golf clubs face.

“At a time when budgets are under pressure, it’s an important exercise to look at the impact of Primo Maxx II, to see how if it can it can help reduce long-term running costs for the club, and help reallocate of labour to higher priority areas whilst maintaining quality.

Combined with the depreciation from an average seven-year operating life of fairways mowers, the reduction in mowing by a typical 25% to 33% per week through the growing season offered substantial savings.

Experience of greenkeepers who regularly use Primo Maxx II on fairways repeatedly shows that the clean cut and tight sward helps with ball lie and playability,” he advised.

“The Primo Maxx Calculator is a really useful tool to assess potential savings and to communicate with the Club for budgets and investment.”

The Primo Maxx Calculator is free to use among the Greencast Tools for more efficient turf management.

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Campey applies a touch of magic

July 10, 2020/in News, Press Release/by CharmianRobson

Campey applies a touch of magic: A renovation from Campey Turf Care Systems has brought a touch of magic to Sutton Upon Derwent Tennis Club’s two grass courts!

The courts have played a prominent role in the club’s history and have been a feature since French Airmen originally founded it in the 1940s. When the club was re-established in 1970, the courts were kept and they are now the only two grass surfaces in the York Tennis League, which is one of the biggest in the United Kingdom.

Campey applies a touch of magic

While the condition of the courts has always been at a usable standard club member and volunteer groundsman, George Hobson, saw the potential in them and took it upon himself to raise the quality. George had no experience of turf maintenance when he started two seasons ago, but along with his work as a magician that has seen him perform at numerous events including for the Aston Martin Racing Team at Le Mans, he has made significant progress with the courts.

“I had no previous experience in groundsmanship, but I seem to be obsessing over grass now,” George began. “I’ve been playing on these courts since I started playing tennis, which is 15-years ago and I knew they could be a lot better, and I wanted to see what I could do.

“I first met Ben Taylor from Campey at Wimbledon’s Grass Court Seminar in August last year, and they had the machinery on the courts there which looked amazing. After meeting Ben, I asked him if he knew of anyone who had a Koro^Ò in our area because it would be interesting to see what price they’d charge to help us out. Campey very kindly came back and said they would do a renovation demo day on the tennis courts, so that’s how it started.

“The tennis courts at the club have never really had a renovation so the thatch was like a sponge. The quality of the courts wasn’t there because of that, but the Koro^Ò did the job we needed to take the thatch away.

“The courts are fantastic now, and they’ve held up well to the use they’ve had, which is now over two hundred hours. We usually have one hundred members at the club and from those that have played on them we’ve had loads of positive responses. As this was our first-ever complete renovation of the courts, it was a steep learning curve for me. I selected a new grass seed that was a 100% ryegrass as our tennis season runs from the end of April to early September. There’s a lot of wear on the courts, so I hoped this would allow them to stay at their prime for longer. The use of the Vredo seeder and Uni-ScratchÔ prepared the seedbed perfectly to allow for very high germination rates. There’s always going to be a few things that I may have missed from our first renovation, one thing being that the baselines over the years have had different types of loam applied, this led to them panning which doesn’t allow good root growth. There’s always something new I’m learning and discovering which is really helping to expand my knowledge further.

“Doing the renovation and the results of it has attracted a few more members in which is good. The grass courts are in a really prominent position in the village so there’s a lot of traffic going past them and seeing them in such good condition has attracted some of those new members.”

For more information on the KORO^ÒFIELDTOPMAKER^Òor how your surface can be improved using Campey machinery contact your local Campey Product Specialist or email info@campeyturfcare.com.

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Primo Maxx offers opportunity to save

Primo Maxx offers opportunity to save: Greenkeepers and turf advisors can now find out the potential time and cost savings for individual courses using Primo Maxx II to reduce mowing requirements on fairways.

Campey applies a touch of magic

Campey applies a touch of magic: A renovation from Campey Turf Care Systems has brought a touch of magic to Sutton Upon Derwent Tennis Club’s two grass courts!

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