(Heaton Park) Ltd, Andrew Street, Head Greenkeeper and Vinny Casey, Assistant Greenkeeper
overlooked by a neat and inviting gravelled patio area complete with its own benches and tables. It’s all the greenkeepers’ work, including the furniture. “It’s all about making the most of your resources,” explains Vinny. “We built the benches and tables out of scaffolding planks and the steps and what have you out of old sleepers cut to size. Some of the lads have got a background in construction, which serves us well. We’ve
got a good mix of experience and age here, which means we work really well as a team.”
Just as their experience has
grown, so too has the course’s stature, following Andrew and Vinny’s arrival at the club seven years ago. “When we came here the course was all cut one height by the park staff,” reflects Vinny. “We got the machinery in to define the fairways, the semi-rough, the rough, the aprons, because there was no
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R: Brian Dique, General Manager of Playgolf
an idea of how popular it is. The queue can sometimes be quadruple this!
definition whatsoever. So we’ve put a lot in to this course.” Now, the course is in such good shape that for the second year running, it was chosen to host the 2006 Faldo Series North West Golf Tournament, held in March, as well as the Manchester Municipal Golf Challenge. Such endorsements
represent a challenge but are a source of pride for the team in a job that is often a thankless one. The biggest
reward for the lads, though, is the knowledge that their efforts continue to provide some of the best, most accessible and most affordable golf for the public in the country. Vinny enthuses: “We’re all local lads and because so many people live and play the course, it’s a real buzz when you bump into them in the pub or the street and they say: ‘I played your course today, it’s absolutely brilliant.’”
The first tee on the Par-3
3 course. This gives
Raising the bar…
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