Contents Nick Tebbs, Oundle School Cricket The Bryce is right!
Richard Bryce and his contracts team look after Northants CCC’s outground, the beautiful Campbell Park in Milton Keynes. It is a task he has performed, in one guise or another, for the past twenty years. Pg54
It’s one good turn! Cover Story -T Tim Facer, Hamptworth Golf Club ISSUE
Forest, has seen his team dwindle from eight to just three, yet he continues to improve the course and its facilities.
Three men went THE PC TEAM
DAVE SALTMAN Managing Director
colleagues to pick up a load of fishing tackle he had bought off eBay
‘for a steal’. Judging by the condition of said purchase, it will sit nicely alongside the two boats Dave now
owns. We can’t decide if he is turning into Captain Birdseye or Albert Steptoe!
Asked one of his southern based
JOHN RICHARDS Operations Director
Proof read much of this magazine from the other side of the world - in the country that
something that John is very used to anyway!
went home early-ish from the ICC cricket world cup! Sadly, bragging rights were only confined to the Ashes, and even that success is now just a distant memory -
to mow... Page 32
Tim Facer, Head Greenkeeper at Hamptworth Golf Club in the New
Inside THIS
General In Parks we trust
How the Parks Trust model might work for other cash strapped local authorities as the Coalition Government’s ‘Big Society’ kicks in. Pg12
Are YOU breaking the law?
So much has been written on the topic of waste management, wash down areas and fuel storage in recent years, yet establishments are still ignoring the demands of legislation. Pg46
Bee Healthy, but Bee Wise
Dr Julian Little, Communications & Government Affairs Manager for Bayer CropScience Limited, discusses the reasons behind the decline in honey bees, rather than the speculative assumptions of the popular press. Pg50
Seeding is ... believing
Is it possible to establish a hard wearing sports pitch in just ten weeks from seed? With the right conditions and materials, Simon Taylor of Euro Grass certainly believes so. Pg98
The Koro Man
Campey Turf Care is celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary. We talk to their Managing Director, Richard Campey, and chart the company’s progress. Pg112
In the third part of our series, Frank Fielding catches up with Old Trafford’s Head Groundsman, Matthew Merchant, to see how he’s progressing with the key task of turning the square through ninety degrees. Pg58
No but yeah but no but...
Events in the supply chain for loams in 2010 have forced cricket groundsmen to consider their options for their square maintenance going forward. Pg62
The Loam Changers
Swelling, shrinkage and motties ... you could be forgiven for thinking you had stumbled onto the set of an X-rated movie. Nick Tebbs at Oundle School details the methods he used to change loams. Pg66
What we did on our holidays
Or, more accurately, what Andy Johnson, Head Groundsman at The Blue Coat School in Edgbaston, did during the school holidays. Pg70
Golf Shaken... but not stirred!
Neville Johnson sees that the ravages of winter hadn’t shaken preparations for golf’s oldest ‘major’, but had stirred the desire for perfection. Pg38
It’s a long way from Tipperary...
Established in1909 as a nine hole course, Bandon Golf Club is set in the grounds of the Castle Bernard Estate, in the valley of the stunning Bandon River. Pg42
LAURENCE GALE Editor
north west - collecting stories for this latest edition, clocking up the mileage and wearing out his typing finger. With a 35% rise in fuel costs he has been reluctant to take a 35% wages cut to cover the extra costs involved.
ricocheting all over the country - from the south coast to the
Loz has been
PETER BRITTON Sales & Production
Currently driving a car that smells like a fish finger factory, having helped out a colleague! Not even the strongest air freshener is negating the odour. Still, it does mean that being the ‘designated driver’ on evenings out is out of the question, whilst smelling like a flounder also mean he can get to the bar easily!
PR and Marketing
fortunately without the moustache - as her ‘Find Me a Job’ initiative kicks off. It’s been a successful launch with a number of turfcare professionals needing help in difficult times. Nice one ET. Sorry, almost got serious there!
Ellie has become Pitchcare’s very own Yosser Hughes -
ELLIE TAIT
ALASTAIR BATTRICK Web Monkey
Another new addition to the nerd centre (that’s now four in total to his empire) has meant that cat swinging room is
wouldn’t do that to him, would we?
now extremely limited. Of course, another office move would resolve the problem, but a third in as many months might just test Al’s patience, and we
DAN HUGHES Sales Manager
probably know the fate of his beloved Wolves - Premiership or Championship? It’s been a roller-coaster ride, rather akin to his understanding of magazine deadlines - will he, won’t he? At least he doesn’t have Mick McCarthy barking at him - just Peter!
As this latest edition ‘doormats’, Dan will
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