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Standing by to receive the turf at the end of its journey north was John Bambury from Create Turfgrass. Having been appointed in April, he moved swiftly to put plans in place to enable the project to run smoothly. The scale of the site is colossal. The vast estate, with its towering dunes, covers 1,800 acres, with 107 tee boxes and a 3,000 square metre putting green. “It requires a different approach to course
management - looking at the bigger picture,” John explained. “You’re planning, but allowing for flexibility and building in contingencies. The focus is to build structures so that a fully functional maintenance department is created. Elements such as budgets, equipment procurement and strategic plans have to take into account the immediate and long term needs of the project. You’re also developing a new team, each with differing personalities and talents and, in addition, coordinating the logistics moving sixty or more skilled trades people around a site which doesn’t yet have a road infrastructure.”
“Our priority was to put the
resources in place to get the turf laid quickly. Sol Golf have been phenomenal in managing and delivering the construction of the course. One of their teams worked as a ‘chaingang’ to get the turf unloaded into a cool location and in-situ as
soon as possible. The work was staggered so, whilst one load was being laid, another team was preparing to receive the next.”
It was Mr. Trump’s personal decision to turf the surrounds as well as the greens, and the contrast of the pure fescue on the tees and fairways, and the framing of the greens with the fescue/bentgrass surrounds looks truly stunning. In addition to turfing the
greens and surrounds, Tillers supplied its Arena Gold turf, a rye/fescue mix, for the footpaths, and straight fescue turf for repairing damage to the fairways caused by deer. “I have had lots of people say that the footpaths are like carpet,” adds John. “We’ve got irrigation running alongside them, so we’ve been able to keep the turf in great condition.”
Once the turf was in place, an intensive management regime kicked in, combining nutrition, topdressing, disease prevention and irrigation, supplied by 64,000 linear metre of irrigation pipe and managed with pinpoint accuracy from the greenkeeping team’s iPhones. “It’s the first time I’ve
worked with Tillers Turf but I was incredibly impressed. Trump golf courses are known for perfection, that’s what they delivered. It was Poa-free and not a single roll was rejected - that’s some achievement.”
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