I don’t believe it! The not so serious side of the industry
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A star is born at Garstang Golf Club!
A GARSTANG greenkeeper is set to star in a major national advertising campaign. Mick Miller, 58, who has been Head Greenkeeper at Garstang Country Hotel and Golf Club, in Lancashire, for sixteen years, has been chosen to feature in a series of national newspaper advertisements for Best Western Hotels.
He was nominated by colleagues at the hotel for showing “great character and exceptional dedication to his role.”
Wine to water helps Aussie golf course
The campaign, which launched this spring, will make stars of a number of employees who go above and beyond the call of duty when it comes to making customers happy.
Western’s PR manager, said “We hoped to find people with the individuality and personality which reflects the hotels themselves. Mick has worked at the hotel for many
Surf and Turf ...
NOW this is what you call an indoor sports arena. It comes complete with a neighbouring golf course, retractable roof, real sand, real salt water, false sky, and is err ... by the sea! Perhaps, not surprisingly, it is in Japan.
So, while hubby is enjoying
18 holes on the adjacent golf course, the rest of the family can enjoy a day out at the beach and a spot of sushi for lunch.
Mikhaila Brentnall, Best
years and even helped build the hotel and golf course - so who better to advise guests on their game!” “We weren’t looking for typical models. We wanted real people who work in our hotels and go above and beyond - the hidden gems - and we found that in Mick.” He sees his nomination as a bit of fun, and is preparing himself for some gentle banter. “I knew I’d been nominated, but I didn’t expect to be selected. I couldn’t believe it when they booked me in for photographs.”
ONE winery’s waste will become a golf club’s gain to drought proof their greens. A five-year arrangement between Wolf Blass Wines, part of the Foster’s Group, and the Barossa Valley Golf Club, in Australia will mean up to 40 megalitres of treated waste water being pumped on to the greens each year. The water deal is potentially worth more than $100,000 to the club. And the treated process water has begun to flow into the club’s smaller dam with the first supply into the re-sealed main dam expected to start next month. The treated water will be
provided from Wolf Blass’s Nuriootpa winery and
Tickets please ....
WITH the sledging during the recent Australia v India Test series escalating into claims and counter claims about alleged racist comments, it is hardly surprising that the cricket authorities are considering a clamp down.
Perhaps it has all got out of hand, but these ‘classic’ comments from the past serve to remind us all that banter has always been part of the game.
Glenn McGrath & Eddo Brandes. After Brandes played and missed at a McGrath delivery, the Aussie bowler politely enquired “Oi, Brandes, why are you so fat?” Brandes replied “Cos every time I sleep with your wife she gives me a biscuit”. (polite version)
Rod Marsh and Ian Botham. When Botham took guard in an Ashes match, Marsh
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welcomed him to the wicket with the immortal words “So, how’s your wife and my kids?”
Daryll Cullinan and Shane Warne. As Cullinan was on his way to the wicket, Warne told him he had been waiting two years for another chance to humiliate him. “Looks like you spent it eating,” Cullinan retorted.
Merv Hughes and Javed Miandad. During the 1991 Adelaide Test, Javed called Merv “a fat bus conductor”. A few balls latter Merv dismissed Javed “Tickets please”, Merv called out as he ran past the departing batsman.
packaging operation and will be transported 6km through an established pipeline. “It is going to give us water supply reliability and storage capabilities for the times when we really need it,” said the club manager “And it is solving a problem for Wolf Blass in moving the waste water off the site in an environmentally friendly manner.” Greenkeeper Steven Chapman said “This deal could provide us with 60 per cent or more of our water needs and takes pressure off the region’s water table.” The sight of golfers licking
the greens might well become a regular occurrence!
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