All these Open Championship Clubs choose to relief grind with a Hunter precision grinder
St Andrews • Carnoustie
Turnberry • Troon • Muirfield Royal Liverpool • Royal St Georges Royal Lytham St Annes
... and the skill is about reacting to conditions to achieve your goals
headway is being made with the agronomic issues. If the plan doesn’t appear to be working, then we might need to try something different. The worst thing that one can do is stick to a plan that isn’t working.
It is important to keep objectively measuring the situation in a systematic way to be able to read the dynamics of the situation. We may need to adjust target figures in reaction to the situation, but this should be seen as fine-tuning. We use our information system to light the way. We inform the decision-making and move towards our objective.
How do we know when we have arrived?
You tell me! In theory, you just meet your targets but, in reality, it doesn’t work that way. You will find that you never really arrive, you just keep fine-tuning the targets to continually maintain and improve the situation. The golfers and the revenue figures should tell of your success. You’ll know when you are getting close when we start using a Clegg impact hammer to tell of minor
inconsistencies in surface receptivity for instance. You'll know, by this time, that it is the planning that is
important and not the arrival.
Now that we are new
So, there you have it. Planning is the route to success. What we have described in this article is the agronomy process as defined by the STRI’s new “Performance Measurement and Development” (PMD) system. We have formulated a system that can accurately define and measure the playing qualities as well as the factors that affect them. We have a whole system of measurement and interpretation that can help you make progress. We hope you can see that, by taking an objective, measured and planned approach, you become guided towards your goal. You can see that a system of monitoring will keep things firmly on track. You can see that your success is a process and not a reward. This way for greenkeeping with eyes open.
Contact
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