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Cover Story - Steve Brown, Durham University
LAURENCE GALE Editor
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peter@pitchcare.com Cover Story Steve Brown’s School Days
No longer is the choice of university solely about the quality of the education on offer, or a specific course of study; factors such as sporting provision are now key determinants in students’ minds. Tom James talks to Durham Uni’s Deputy Head Groundsman. Pg90
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KERRY HAYWOOD Design & Advertising
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Derek Metcalfe, Isles of Scilly Golf Club Golf The case for 9-hole courses
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We asked leading Golf Course Architect, Jonathan Gaunt, to give us his take on the golf industry from an architect’s point of view. Pg14
A ‘great’ little place
Opening for play in June 1992, Priskilly Forest Golf Club is a nine-hole, parkland course located about five miles from the west Wales coast. Pg18
The Scilly Season
The Isles of Scilly Golf Club is tended by three volunteer greenkeepers who, with a collective age of 229, are keeping the course going for members and guests. Pg22
Laurence meets a hoo or two!
Luton Hoo is an historic mansion that has been returned to its former glories thanks to a £60m investment by Elite Hotels. Pg26
Darren Baldwin, Tottenham Hotspur
Winter Sports Audere est Facere
An expression of a football club’s business and playing philosophy, that’s the new Tottenham Hotspur Training Centre. Pg50
Diamonds aren’t forever!
When Chelsea and Manchester City were scheduled in to play an exhibition game, it was all hands to the pump to prepare a football pitch in a baseball stadium. Pg58
Marshalling his troop!
Burton Albion’s Pirelli Stadium pitch is in the care of Head Groundsman, Simon Marshall, who has won a number of accolades for the quality of his pitch. Pg64
Ponies to Penalties!
Minchinhampton RFC has recently hosted its first league game in its new home - 3.8 hectares of Cotswold brash which has been transformed from a farmer’s field. Pg68
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