BIGGA rebrand Harrogate show
BIGGA has officially rebranded the third week in January as “Harrogate Week”. The decision was taken to provide an umbrella title for the vast number of events which occur during the busiest six days of the year. Two exhibitions - BTME and ClubHouse; the Continue to Learn education programme; R&A Seminar, AGM, and numerous fringe events, together with the fact that the North Yorkshire town is synonymous with BIGGA, naming it Harrogate Week seemed the natural option. The aforementioned Continue to Learn education programme more than doubles the educational opportunities on offer than ever before. More than 120 hours of education is available for industry professionals at every stage of their careers on a wide range of topics. The programme, supported
by The GTC, is aimed at Greenkeepers, Groundsmen, Supervisors, Course Managers, Secretaries, Club Managers, golf club officials and others working in the fine turf industry and will include two-day workshops, one-day workshops, half-day workshops and seminars. The Association of Golf Club
Secretaries and the English Golf Union, working together
OBITUARY
Gerald Brooks 1935-2005
Gerald Brooks sadly passed away on the 21st August after a two year battle with Cancer.
He had worked in the trade he loved for over 45 years, firstly at Huxleys Grass Machinery where in the early days he worked with his father, Jack.
Gerald worked for Huxleys for 25 years from when they were a Ransomes distributor to the time they imported the Cushman range and developed their own
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with BIGGA, will present a full day of seminars aimed at golf club managers, golf club secretaries, golf club officials and golf course managers. The R&A will work together with BIGGA to present a much anticipated session on Maintaining the Sustainable Golf Course. A Fringe Seminar
programme will also feature presentations from exhibitors at the BTME & ClubHouse exhibition.
With an inspirational
Keynote Speaker, Explorer and Adventurer and the man behind the Operation Raleigh project, Colonel John Blashford Snell; the presentation of the BIGGA Golf Environment Awards and the introduction of new Master Greenkeepers, the Continue to Learn Programme will give many much food for thought. Harrogate Week runs from
Sunday January 21 – Friday January 27, 2006 Full details of the 2006 Continue to Learn programme are now available at
www.harrogateweek.org.uk.
manufactured products.
In 1987 Gerald started in business with Turf Machinery and subsequently launched three other businesses including Garfitts International Ltd, Trac Ltd and Total Concrete with his sons Andrew, Trevor and Clive.
In the 45 years of being in the trade he never missed one IOG exhibition from the early Hurlingham days to the present Saltex exhibitions at Windsor, where he enjoyed meeting his friends and acquaintances from the trade immensely.
He will be missed by wife Pat, and family of three sons and six grandchildren.
joint runners-u James Lindsay.
Alan Awarded 2005 TORO Student Greenkeeper Prize.
Assistant Greenkeeper at Ham Manor Golf Club wins top Award.
ALAN Pierce, assistant Greenkeeper at Ham Manor Golf Club, West Sussex, has become 2005 champion student greenkeeper, after winning the Toro Student Greenkeeper of the Year Award. The competition, now in its 16th year, is open to the 3,000-plus Greenkeepers in the UK and Ireland currently studying for industry qualifications, who have been nominated to enter by their colleges. Alan was nominated by his course tutor at Plumpton College and proceeded through a regional final before going before a panel of specialist judges at the national final of the competition, which is sponsored by turf machinery and irrigation systems manufacturer Toro, and organised by BIGGA.
Alan, 25, has been in greenkeeping since he was 15. In 2000 he took his NVQ Level 2 in Amenity Horticulture and has since gone on to gain Level 3 in Sportsturf Management. He has also worked for Toro dealer John Shaw Machinery as a turf machinery technician and is qualified as a factory-trained technician with a number of turf machinery manufacturers. The 2005 competition joint runners-up were David
Newton, 47, first assistant at Arrowe Park Golf Club, Merseyside, who studied at Reasheath College; and James Lindsay, 27, deputy head Greenkeeper at Bedfordshire Golf Club, from Merrist Wood College.
David Newton (left) and
Alan Pierce (centre) with up
New management
course dates Details of the next ‘Essential Management Skills’ course have been announced on the pitchcare website.
The two-day course, delivered by trainer and careers counsellor Frank Newberry, is ideal for anyone who works in a supervisory or management position or who aspires to be a manager and will take place on Thursday 12th January and Thursday 13th April 2006 at Leicester Tigers Rugby Club.
Full details including a course itinerary can be found in the education and training section. The cost, £239+VAT, includes two days of intensive training (no more than 12 delegates per course), lunch, refreshments throughout the day, course notes and a three month trainer helpline after the course has finished. Online registration is now available and payment can be made using Pitchcare’s secure online payment facility, or an invoice can be sent to your workplace. Visit
www.pitchcare.com/training/ where you can also register to receive our new education and training e-newsletter.
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