Pitchcare Classifieds SPORTS TURF CONTRACTORS
Golf Grogan’s Run Sports Ground Contractors Ltd
D W Clark DRAINAGE LTD
SPECIALIST SPORTSTURF CONSTRUCTION & DRAINAGE CONTRACTORS • Gravel Banding • Sand Slitting
• Top Dressing • Renovation • Irrigation Unit 7, Brailes Industrial Estate, Winderton Lane, Lower Brailes Banbury, Oxfordshire OX15 5JW
Tel: 01608 685800 Fax: 01608 685801 email:
jim@dwclarkdrainageltd.co.uk Web:
www.dwclarkdrainageltd.co.uk
SPORTS TURF D CRANE
Construction Golf Courses, Natural/
Artificial Pitches, MUGAs
Renovation Koro Field Top Maker, Fibre Sand Installation, Laser Grading, Seeding
Drainage
Piped Drainage, Sandmaster, Whiz Wheel, Gravel Banding
Tel:01254 878047
Email:
info@dcranesportsturf.com Website:
www.dcranesportsturf.com
CONSTRUCTION Sports Fields and Golf Courses
Sand Slitting, Gravel Banding DRAINAGE
Verti Draining, Hollow Coring, Scarifying, Koro Field Topmaker, Topdressing, Overseeding, Sand Spreading
RENOVATION
As part of the 175th Anniversary John Deere press trip, our editor had the opportunity to visit the TPC Deere Run award-winning championship golf course, where he met up with Course Superintendent, Paul Grogan
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Tel: 01772 780545
danvicturfcare@btconnect.com
Mobile: 07768 122577
PC Deere Run has been recognised as one of the top one hundred golf
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venues in the United States and, since 2000, has been the venue for the John Deere Classic tournament. John Deere is also the official golf course equipment, leasing and landscape supplier to the club. TPC Deere Run’s golf course is built on the site of a former Arabian horse farm. Illinois native and former PGA Tour professional, D.A. Weibring, masterfully preserved the natural, rolling landscape along the Rock River to create a championship golf course, beautifully framed by oak trees and accented by small ponds and deep ravines. The land’s past includes Native American settlements, farming, coal mining and, most recently, one of the top horse and cattle breeding programmes in the country. Participants in the course design felt that it was important for every visitor to understand the historical significance of this piece of ground - and so they named each hole on the course after the land’s rich heritage. For example, the signature hole at the TPC Deere Run is the 16th and is named “Mother Earth.” Views like the ones from the 16th tee represent the types of features that have drawn people to this property for
centuries.
Archeological evidence indicates Native Americans settled and lived on this property as far back as 5,000 years ago. To Native Americans, the land is a living being called Mother Earth, who cares for all her children by providing food, shelter, beauty and a place for contest and play.
The early inhabitants enjoyed many sporting activities. Games ranged from lacrosse, which was played in the summer on the large grassy expanses on the property, to snow snake races in the winter where a crooked stick called the "snake" was thrown down a steep hill as each player attempted to send his snake the farthest. The 16th hole is dedicated to these early inhabitants, to pay tribute to the spirit of respect and competition they first brought to the site. Paul Grogan is the Director of Golf Course Maintenance Operations who graduated from Purdue University with a BS in Agronomy. He has been in the golf business since 1972. He was Superintendent at Harrison Lake Country Club from 1986 to 1999, before moving to TPC Twin Cities in 2000, and TPC Deere Run in 2006.
The course was built in 1998 and opened in 2000. The whole site covers almost 400 acres, with approximately 150 acres of its hilliest terrain used for the
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