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DRAINAGE 45
Cost effective drainage quick and neat trenching work with minimal disruption to play.
Golf
A “field with flags in it” is transformed
AFT Trenchers
Tel: 01787 311811
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DRAINAGE SPECIALISTS
DESIGN & INSTALLATION PRIMARY SYSTEMS SAND SLITTING & GRAVEL BANDING
Tel.01722 716361
www.mjabbott.co.uk
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
Self-drive machinery hire Tel/Fax 01476 550266 Mobile: 07855 431119/20
email:
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CYLINDER GRINDERS
Verti-draining - Koro Blec Groundbreaker
Draining and Gravel Banding
also Vertidraining, Hollow Coring, Overseeding, Field Top Maker, Deep Scarifying
Mobile: 07860 259692
Tel: 01284 735105 Email:
peter@buryturfcare.com www.buryturfcare.com
Philip Dixon Contractors Ltd Established 1978
Sportsturf Drainage Specialist Drainage Construction Renovation Tel: 01449 673783
A former quarry and farm, and once used by Aberystwyth University for crop trialing daffodils and potatoes, Trefloyne Manor is steadily gaining a reputation as a quality golfing destination reports Alywn Jones
PEMBROKESHIRE is still one of the most popular visitor attractions for the English, with second home owners often choosing this picturesque corner of Wales to retire or holiday.
Pembrokeshire’s association with England is rooted in history as a once strategically important area for ruling authorities, notably Tenby, a walled seaside town on the west side of Carmarthen Bay.
Trefloyne Manor, one of the area’s youngest golf courses, has been steadily growing its profile since the almost agricultural site was taken on by its current owners and brought up to speed to meet the demands of the modern golfer.
The eighteen hole course is fast gaining a good reputation in West Wales. Despite being just sixteen years old, it has matured exceptionally well since its re- design in 1996, and the extensive annual winter programmes, put in place by new management, have allowed the course to progress and develop within the parameters of today’s environment, and in spite of the sodden Welsh conditions.
Slitting Banding Maintenance
Tel: 01462 683031 email:
admin@huntergrinders.com
www.huntergrinders.com 134 PC FEBRUARY/MARCH 2013
Tel 01772 877289 (Preston, Lancs) Email:
info@dixondrainage.co.uk www.dixondrainage.co.uk
www.pitchcare.com
Trefloyne Manor sits on the outskirts of the tiny village of Penally, overlooking the 2.5miles of sandy beach at Tenby. The 600-acre estate is steeped in history. The former farm and quarry [the course was laid out over the underlying limestone] traces its roots back to the 1600s when Oliver Cromwell reputedly brought his army to this rolling land to rest and recuperate.
Inheriting what was “a field with
flags in it” in 1996, Gareth Knight, Golf Course Estates Manager, was a member of the Celtic Manor Resort greens team for the 2010 Ryder Cup, who were universally acclaimed for their efforts during some of the worst weather ever to hit Wales. He is active in BIGGA’s South Wales Section as secretary, and their South Wales, South Coast & South West Region as vice chairman.
Originally a working farm, the land was previously owned by Aberystwyth University, who ran it as a crop trialing site for daffodils and potatoes. Much of the history of the site is scattered across the 600 acres. A magnesium limestone quarry at the 13th green, once used as a store site, is just one relic of its past ownership.
The course is built on a thick band of carboniferous limestone, which underlies the relatively low-lying ground of the Ritec Valley. On top of the bed of rock sits a layer of the region's famous red Welsh clay, with just one to three feet of soil on top of that.
This corner of Pembrokeshire offers a real multitude of geological landscapes and natural resources, which is probably why it was earmarked for quarrying in the first place.
HF Gilman & Co, a Welsh supplier of quarried products, purchased the land from the university with a view to making good the leisure potential it offered, so was the first to attempt to transform the estate into a decent sports facility. It was evident, when the new owners took control, that much
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