Pitchcare Classifieds AERATION
DRAINAGE 45
Cost effective drainage quick and neat trenching work with minimal disruption to play.
Compost
Homebrewed compost
AFT Trenchers
Tel: 01787 311811
info@trenchers.co.uk www.trenchers.co.uk
In times of austerity, golf clubs have to watch the pennies but, more importantly, with nomadic golfers becoming the norm, change the way they operate to retain membership and encourage the next generation of players to take up the game
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
www.terrainaeration.com terrainaeration@aol.com
Tel: 01449 673783 CYLINDER GRINDERS
Philip Dixon Contractors Ltd Established1978
Sportsturf DrainageSpecialist Drainage Construction Renovation
So, any golf club that continues to invest in its course stands a better chance of survival. One such club is Wakefield Golf Club, who seem to be bucking the trend by having a thriving membership and plenty of societies wanting to play the course.
Set in the urban suburbs of Wakefield, the club was originally formed in 1891 on land known as Heath Common, but moved to its current location at Woodthorpe in 1911.
Slitting Banding Maintenance
Tel 01772 877289 (Preston,Lancs) Email:
info@dixondrainage.co.uk www.dixondrainage.co.uk
The course, in 1911, was essentially the same as today, with an anti-clockwise loop of 9 holes enclosing a clockwise loop, each returning to the clubhouse. The course is traditional parkland with soil push up greens and is maintained by a team of four greenkeepers; John Hampton, Mick Shillito, Dean Ward and Neil Barrett
under the guidance of Head Greenkeeper, Damian Wormald. Damian took over the reins a few years ago when the previous head greenkeeper retired, and immediately set about improvements on the greens, signing up to a greens monitoring programme and looking at ways of reducing the amount of salt based products being applied. In part, this involved reducing NPK ratios dramatically (he is now applying less that 70kgs/N per Ha per year) and, instead, is now using compost teas as his main source of food for the greens, along with applying an assortment of organic based materials, that include fish guts, seaweed extracts, humic and fulvic acids.
Tel: 01462 683031 email:
admin@huntergrinders.com
www.huntergrinders.com 144 l PC APRIL/MAY 2014
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 beDuncanRoss! 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, LancashireWN6 9DT
t 01257 255321 f 01257 255327 e
office@duncanrosslanddrainage.co.uk www.duncanrosslanddrainage.co.uk
e
rosslanddrainage.co.uk www.duncanrosslanddrainage.co.uk
t 01257 255321
Damian has been brewing his compost teas for four years now, using Symbio tea bags and an assortment of additives, which he applies on a monthly basis. He has a 200 litre brewer and it only takes two days to produce a new brew. Day one sees him fill up the brewer with clean water, switch on the air pump and allow the water to circulate for a few hours. The next day, he puts in his tea bag and adds other organic materials, allows it to brew for twenty four hours and then decants into a sprayer ready for putting on the greens the following day. He will often re-use the tea bag to make another brew for the tees. His feeding programme usually starts in March with an application of lawn sand to kill off the moss and improve vigour and colour. He will then apply hoof and horn as a base feed in mid to late April, and again in June. At the back end of the growing season, he applies
AERATION
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58 |
Page 59 |
Page 60 |
Page 61 |
Page 62 |
Page 63 |
Page 64 |
Page 65 |
Page 66 |
Page 67 |
Page 68 |
Page 69 |
Page 70 |
Page 71 |
Page 72 |
Page 73 |
Page 74 |
Page 75 |
Page 76 |
Page 77 |
Page 78 |
Page 79 |
Page 80 |
Page 81 |
Page 82 |
Page 83 |
Page 84 |
Page 85 |
Page 86 |
Page 87 |
Page 88 |
Page 89 |
Page 90 |
Page 91 |
Page 92 |
Page 93 |
Page 94 |
Page 95 |
Page 96 |
Page 97 |
Page 98 |
Page 99 |
Page 100 |
Page 101 |
Page 102 |
Page 103 |
Page 104 |
Page 105 |
Page 106 |
Page 107 |
Page 108 |
Page 109 |
Page 110 |
Page 111 |
Page 112 |
Page 113 |
Page 114 |
Page 115 |
Page 116 |
Page 117 |
Page 118 |
Page 119 |
Page 120 |
Page 121 |
Page 122 |
Page 123 |
Page 124 |
Page 125 |
Page 126 |
Page 127 |
Page 128 |
Page 129 |
Page 130 |
Page 131 |
Page 132 |
Page 133 |
Page 134 |
Page 135 |
Page 136 |
Page 137 |
Page 138 |
Page 139 |
Page 140 |
Page 141 |
Page 142 |
Page 143 |
Page 144 |
Page 145 |
Page 146 |
Page 147 |
Page 148 |
Page 149 |
Page 150 |
Page 151 |
Page 152 |
Page 153 |
Page 154 |
Page 155 |
Page 156