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New Sales manager appointment for Simon Richard

April 29, 2024/in News, Press Release/by Neil Hancock

New Sales manager appointment for Simon Richard: Simon Richard Ltd have confirmed the appointment of Will Davies as Southern Area Sales Manager. Commenting on the appointment Simon says, “Will has a huge wealth of knowledge and respect within the Agricultural and Groundcare markets. I first met him twenty eight years ago when we were both […]

ZLine bunkers ‘great’ during Chevron tournament

April 26, 2024/in News, Press Release/by Admin

ZLine bunkers ‘great’ during Chevron tournament: Nelly Korda’s victory in the recent Chevron Championship at Carlton Woods outside Houston was her fifth straight tournament win (and her second Major title), equalling the LPGA record previously held by Nancy Lopez and Annika Sorenstam. Between the 2023 and 2024 iterations of the tournament, the bunkers on the […]

New Sales manager appointment for Simon Richard

April 29, 2024/in News, Press Release/by Neil Hancock

ZLine bunkers ‘great’ during Chevron tournament

April 26, 2024/in News, Press Release/by Admin

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New Sales manager appointment for Simon Richard

April 29, 2024/in News, Press Release/by Neil Hancock

New Sales manager appointment for Simon Richard: Simon Richard Ltd have confirmed the appointment of Will Davies as Southern Area Sales Manager.

Commenting on the appointment Simon says, “Will has a huge wealth of knowledge and respect within the Agricultural and Groundcare markets. I first met him twenty eight years ago when we were both working for a Batwing and Flail Manufacturer. He then went to work for a John Deere dealer and since then has been working with another manufacturer whose range also included Batwings and Flail Mowers.

New Sales manager appointment for Simon Richard

We as a Company are known for our range of Flail Mowers and batwings so Will’s wealth of knowledge and experience is a perfect fit to expand sales in our Muthing flail and mower range, the market leading range of Reform banking tractors and our new and exciting heavy Duty Sauerburger Batwing rotary mowers. Northern Area Sales Manager Richard Fairnie, left, is pictured greeting Will Davies

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ZLine bunkers ‘great’ during Chevron tournament

April 26, 2024/in News, Press Release/by Admin

ZLine bunkers ‘great’ during Chevron tournament: Nelly Korda’s victory in the recent Chevron Championship at Carlton Woods outside Houston was her fifth straight tournament win (and her second Major title), equalling the LPGA record previously held by Nancy Lopez and Annika Sorenstam.

Between the 2023 and 2024 iterations of the tournament, the bunkers on the Nicklaus Signature course at Carlton Woods were reconstructed using the ZLine bunker liner system.

ZLine bunkers ‘great’ during Chevron tournament

“We have known for some time that we needed to redo the bunkers on the Nicklaus course because of their age, the effects of storm damage, edging, and contamination,” says club director of agronomy Tim Huber. “We took the decision to renovate as far back as 2021, but with the Chevron tournament coming here in 2023, we obviously had to plan the project carefully, so we scheduled it for after the 2023 championship. The 2023 Chevron ended on April 23, and we started the rebuild on May 1. Chris Cochran of the Nicklaus company oversaw the work, which was carried out by contractor Sanders Golf. The build wrapped on November 1 last year, and the course was perfect for the championship last week.”

The Nicklaus course opened in 2001, the first of Carlton Woods’s two eighteens, and the bunkers were initially lined with a textile liner, but Huber says that two decades in the ground had left this practically non-existent. “There were traces of the liner left under the bunkers, but it was in no sense a barrier, and there was no way it could be patched, so it had to be replaced,” he says. “I chose the ZLine system because it has a long lifespan and is extremely resilient – it carries a fifteen-year warranty and even if you use a mechanical rake in the bunkers you’d have a hard time tearing it – because it is very competitively priced, and because it is low visibility. We chose ProAngle sand from Ohio, which is a very high-performance sand, and is very white. ZLine customized the liner to match the sand color, so if by chance a small amount of liner gets exposed on the face of a bunker, there’s no way the golfer would notice, and there’s no UV degradation.”

“I think ZLine is flat out the best bunker liner on the market,” he adds. “High performance sands are great, but they are extremely expensive – especially when they have to be transported a long way, which is the case for us as we simply don’t have good sands available locally – and if you are going to install them, you need to be very confident that your bunkers won’t contaminate and will keep the sand in place – you need to trust your liner. The bunkers were great during the tournament, and I’m confident they will continue to be great for our members.”

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New Sales manager appointment for Simon Richard

ZLine bunkers ‘great’ during Chevron tournament

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ZLine bunkers ‘great’ during Chevron tournament

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New Sales manager appointment for Simon Richard

New Sales manager appointment for Simon Richard: Simon Richard Ltd have confirmed the appointment of Will Davies as Southern Area Sales Manager.

ZLine bunkers ‘great’ during Chevron tournament

ZLine bunkers ‘great’ during Chevron tournament: Nelly Korda’s victory in the recent Chevron Championship at Carlton Woods outside Houston was her fifth straight tournament win (and her second Major title), equalling the LPGA record previously held by Nancy Lopez and Annika Sorenstam.

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