The IOG & Google?


THE Google search engine is an invaluable tool for us publishers. We can find out all sorts of interesting stuff about turf and sport. We can even source images for inclusion in the magazine and on the website. So when we wanted an Institute of Groundsmanship (IOG) logo our first port of call was Google Images. As well as throwing up the obvious - Saltex, IOG Training Programmes and even good old Mike Beardall, we were rather surprised to find this colourful chap, saved as IOG!


Die-hard football fans are tuning in to watch paint dry at their team’s stadium. One of the highlights on Aberdeen FC’s new pay-per view TV station is a 13- minute video showing the pitch being lined. The Pittodrie turf was ripped up at the end of last


Heads will roll ...


Decapitated Kangaroos found on Australia Golf Course


THE bodies of a dozen kangaroos have been found on an Australian golf course, their heads chopped off and missing. Wildlife officials said they


We weren’t aware that an appointment to replace Pat Gossett had already been made!


season as part of a £300,000 renovation programme. Now the newly-launched


Red TV internet service is featuring a section showing the groundsmen painting the white lines lines on the newly-laid pitch.


White lines - go for it!


were baffled by the beheadings of the iconic animals on the Yarrambat Park course outside the southern city of Melbourne. The course is next to a wildlife park and kangaroos frequently graze there. “It’s strange. The heads have been taken off with a clean cut,” said Catherine Smith, an inspector with


Angus Fraser reporting in the Belfast Telegraph: “As I was leaving Old Trafford I popped my head into the groundsman’s shed to congratulate Peter Marron, the head groundsman, for producing an excellent pitch. And who should I find sat among the lawnmowers, the rakes and the grass cuttings


Australia’s Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The groundsman at the golf course found the first few decapitated kangaroos and buried them, but when more headless animals appeared, he notified authorities. “I’ve been here 20 years and I’ve never seen anything like it,” Rod Joronen told local media.


Something to do with watching two close test matches on the close circuit TV perhaps?


and talking cricket ...


on a bench in his whites and bowling boots having a cold beer with Marron and his staff? Yes, you guessed it, Andrew Flintoff. Football can keep its


Rooneys, its Ferdinands, its Henrys, and its Mourinhos. English cricket’s future is bright as long as it has Flintoff.”


Forward THINKING


DATES FOR YOUR DIARY


SEPTEMBER


29th August to 11th September - US Open Tennis Championships, Flushing Meadows, New York (www.usopen.org)


6th to 8th IOG SALTEX - Windsor (www.iogsaltex.co.uk)


8th to 12th 5th Test - England v Australia - The Oval (www.cricketworld.com)


9th to 11th


The Solheim Cup - Crooked Stick GC, Indianapolis, Indiana (www.solheimcup.com)


11th to 14th Florida Turf Grass Association (FTGA) Conference & Show, Hyatt Coconut Point, Bonita Springs, Florida (www.ftga.org)


18th to 20th


GLEE, NEC Birmingham (www.gleebirmingham.com)


OCTOBER


12th to 13th Golf Course Architects Conference, Fife


14th to 16th


Expo 2005 - Louisville, Kentucky, USA (www.landsconference.com)


20th Land Drainage


Contractors Association (LDCA) Sportsturf Drainage Day, Bisham Abbey (www.ldca.org)


NOVEMBER 2nd to 5th


Green Industry Expo (GIE), Orlando, Florida (www.gieonline.com)


9th


‘Putting science into practice in your grounds and parklands’ - STRI, Bingley (www.stri.co.uk/training)


9th to 10th IOG Scotsturf - Edinburgh, Scotland (www.scotsturf.com)


12th to 16th


EIMA 2005, Bologna, Italy (www.eima.it)


14th to 18th


‘Putting science into practice on your golf course’ - STRI, Bingley (www.stri.co.uk/training)


21st to 25th


‘Putting science into practice on your sports grounds’ - STRI, Bingley (www.stri.co.uk/training)


30th to 1st Dec GCSAI Sportsturf Ireland, Dublin, Ireland (www.gcsai.org/tradeshow)


DECEMBER 5th to 8th


NTF Conference - Blackpool (www.turfgrass.org.uk)


JANUARY 2006 24th to 26th


BTME & Clubhouse 2006, Harrogate (www.btme- clubhouse.org.uk)


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