Pitchcare Classifieds AERATION
DRAINAGE
Golf/Training
Managing the Committee
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
TERRAIN Turf and Trees
10” drill aeration 1m air injection 1m soil coring Air excavation
Slitting Banding Maintenance
www.terrainaeration.com terrainaeration@aol.com
Tel: 01449 673783 CYLINDER GRINDERS
Tel 01772 877289 (Preston, Lancs) Email:
info@dixondrainage.co.uk www.dixondrainage.co.uk
Philip Dixon Contractors Ltd Established 1978
Sportsturf Drainage Specialist Drainage Construction Renovation
Paul Worster, recently elected onto the board of FEGGA, takes a look at the workings of the committees of a typical members’ golf club. Paul is convinced that by actively steering meetings at work, the greenkeeper/course manager can avoid issues and confrontation before they start and, in so doing, become more central to the needs of the business
A SURVEY in America two years ago positively identified the Superintendent/Course Manager as the most important person in the club structure. The success of the Course Manager, particularly in producing good greens, was felt to be pivotal to the success of the business.
Tel: 01462 683031 email:
admin@huntergrinders.com
www.huntergrinders.com DRAINAGE 45
Cost effective drainage quick and neat trenching work with minimal disruption to play.
Miles Drainage Limited
Quality Land Drainage Systems for Sports Pitches, Golf Courses and other Amenity Areas
•Advice, design and installation •Piped systems •Sand Slitting •Gravel Banding
AFT Trenchers
Tel: 01787 311811
info@trenchers.co.uk www.trenchers.co.uk
142 PC DECEMBER/JANUARY 2014
Tel: 01359 259424 Fax: 01359 258073 Web:
www.milesdrainage.co.uk
Email:
trenchers@milesdrainage.co.uk
Recently in the UK, I’ve heard of many greenkeepers coming under severe pressure or even being made redundant. However, I want to see the greenkeeper becoming regarded as the most important figure in the club structure: the person to whom the club look to for leadership in developing the course.
Blec Vibro Sand Banding : Koro Surfacing : Vertidraining : Topdressing : Overseeding Sand Slitting : Blec Vibro Sand Banding : Landscaping
Koro Surfacing : Vertidraining : Topdressing : Overseeding If it’s drainage, it has to be Duncan Ross!
If it’s drainage, it has to be Duncan Ross! DESIGN : INSTALLATION : MAINTENANCE
Pitch Construction : Piped Drainage Systems : Sand Slitting Pitch Construction : Piped Drainage Systems
Willow Farm,
Red Cat Lane, Burscough, Ormskirk L40 0RF Appley Bridge,Wigan, Lancashire WN6 9DT
t 01257 255321 f 01257 255327 e
office@duncanrosslanddrainage.co.uk www.duncanrosslanddrainage.co.uk
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rosslanddrainage.co.uk www.duncanrosslanddrainage.co.uk
t 01257 255321
So, let me give you a couple of brief examples of what can go wrong in Committee and Board Meetings and look at how the Greenkeeper/Manager cannot only avoid the pitfalls, but start to take charge.
Last year, I attended an evening to recognise the environmental success achieved by a famous club in the south of the UK. Around forty delegates enjoyed presentations charting the progress of various
environmental initiatives and discussed the issues encountered along the way.
However, during the question and answer session, a visiting secretary stood up. “This is all fine and good,” he said, “but it’s only working well here because this club wants it to work. I’ve just spent six months
working with my course manager, catering manager and professional to form an environmental policy for our club. We dealt with everything; wildflowers and composting, re- use of waste cooking oil, disposal of cardboard and stationery, energy, lights - the whole lot. I presented it to the Committee the other night, who gave it a quick two minute reading and then threw it out with the comment, the 'ruddy staff are starting to run this place”.
Another secretary responded: “That’s because some clubs still are not viewed as proper businesses by volunteer committee members who only serve for relatively short lengths of time. We have accomplished business people on our boards but, for some reason, they don’t always apply the same successful business ethics and practices to the club as they do to their own companies.”
He added: “At my board meeting last week, we had a twenty-five minute debate on the appropriate length of socks to be worn on the course this summer. Long socks, short socks, football socks, nylon socks, red socks, white socks - the list was endless - I tried to minute it, but we didn’t reach any firm conclusions. The next item on the agenda was the purchase of a £26,000 tractor, and that went through in less than a minute.”
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