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TERRAIN Turf and Trees
10” drill aeration 1m air injection 1m soil coring Air excavation
www.terrainaeration.com terrainaeration@aol.com
DRAINING LTD 25 years in
WORTH sports turf maintenance
Overseeding - Sanding Top Dressing Hollow Coring
Tel/Fax 01476 550266 Mobile: 07855 431119/20
email:
worthdraining@talktalk.net www.worthdraining.co.uk
ARTIFICIAL
Ray Hunt, Technical Sales and Support Manager at Maxwell Amenity, offers his take on consistent green speeds without compromising the health of the grass plant
meet many turf managers on a daily basis and, without doubt, the old chestnut of achieving consistent golf greens that deliver pace and trueness is upon us again.
I CYLINDER GRINDERS DRAINAGE 45
Cost effective drainage quick and neat trenching work with minimal disruption to play.
Tel: 01462 683031 email:
admin@huntergrinders.com
www.huntergrinders.com AFT Trenchers
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The subject has been more than well covered in recent years through seminars, internet forums and numerous articles. During my career as a golf course manager, I prepared putting surfaces on links courses for golf club members and championships run at county level and internationally by the R&A, I also managed resort style courses, preparing modern USGA greens for European Tour events whilst, at the same time, attempting to satisfy the demands of a commercial, corporate golf business. I would like to share, through this article, my experiences of achieving consistent, true greens with pace. This was achieved through mostly cultural methods, which started out as basic tournament prep, eventually incorporated into my every day maintenance programme. We are all well aware of the 2mm debate which is advocated by some, supported with claims of success, albeit over a relatively short period of time.
Personally, I remain sceptical that, long term, this method is sustainable, even with increased verticutting, topdressing, aeration, and taking into account the current financial climate. Increased budgets will be necessary to cope with additional nutrient and chemical inputs required to support a grass plant that, agronomically, is having its basic metabolic function to photosynthesise considerably reduced.
It is universally accepted that golf course management has to be sustainable which, of course, is nothing new. Sustainable methods were very much evident - perhaps because of the lack of technology, mechanisation etc. - back in the days of Old Tom Morris, and heavily advocated by the late Jim Arthur.
My approach to delivering golf greens that were consistent in pace and trueness across all nineteen, be it on a sandy old style links or on a modern resort style course, was fundamentally the same for both. For most of the time, this approach was successful without compromising height of cut and, as a
consequence, the general health of the plant on a consistent basis.
Verti-draining - Koro Blec Groundbreaker
Tel: 01449 673783
Golf
Green speed without
compromise
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