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COULD it be that there is one simple answer to today’s highly demanding golf market?


The game of golf is changing. It is no longer about the competition between course and competitor, or the pure enjoyment and pleasure derived from playing the game. Television has enabled everyone, including the non- golfing community, to become an expert on course conditions and playability. Golfers have become both critical and demanding in a way that was never intended when the game was first played. Golfing customers no longer seem satisfied with a well prepared playing surface produced by highly trained and experienced course managers and greenkeepers,


they now demand the conditions they see on TV - flawless greens and fairways, pristine ball roll, and above all, speed.


This whole change in emphasis has created a competitive edge throughout the industry, causing massive changes in the market at every level. We have now entered


realms of high risk and extreme stress to turfgrass. Greenkeepers need cutting edge tools at their disposal to meet today’s challenges. In response to this challenge mower manufacturers are developing a range of machines that would have made Edwin Budding, inventor of the cylinder mower, gasp in awe. In comparison to his simple machines, originally


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described to be a “potentially pleasurable pursuit for country gentlemen”, today’s machines can only be described as cutting edge. Equipped with touch-screen controls, hydraulic drives and sophisticated transmission systems, truly they perform above the limit of normal expectations. In spite of these mower masterpieces, we still cannot produce the pristine results that golfers expect by them alone. Market research has indicated that the appearance of turf is the single most important factor when judging a course. Costs associated with achieving these elevated levels of satisfaction can be very high, not to mention time consuming. Properly maintaining these mower masterpieces can be


the answer to producing the high standards golfers now expect while at the same time saving time and money. Even though these mowers are increasingly complex, it still boils down to the principles originally intended by Edwin Budding - a cylinder blade passing across a bottom blade in a manner suitable to slice through blades of grass cleanly and consistently, at a predetermined height above the ground. One simple maintenance practice can be attributed to properly maintaining these


components of the mower while extending the mowers life and improving the health of turf at the same time - REGULAR SHARPENING


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