Golf
specification over a period of six weeks. Another project
was to rebuild our par 3, 13th hole. Tom was briefed to design a signature island green on which to market the resort. Southern Golf were hired to shape and construct the green, and the end result is quite spectacular. We are still to
complete the final phase of the golf course renovation project. The work outstanding is the tidying, planting and
Irriplan Ltd, I walked the course to map out an improved irrigation system that would give complete and even water coverage. We needed around 300 new sprinklers to achieve this, but we could only budget for 150. Irrigation Control, along with my irrigation technician, Petros Almazidis, were contracted to carry out this project. The driving range was also given a
makeover, with a new weather shelter, office, toilet facility and fresh landscaping. I was asked to design and construct a practice putting green in order to complement the newly landscaped area. We completely built a 300m2
green from scratch to USGA
re-shaping of the golf course boundaries, as well as the landscaping and planting of the bare tee surrounds. We are currently in talks with the local
government to increase the capacity of our main reservoir in order to receive treated sewage effluent water from Paphos. Another requirement from the government is that the golf course needs to cover an area of 52 hectares in order for the licences to be approved for the main real estate project. As the golf course currently only covers an area of 40 hectares, we are planning to relocate holes ten and eleven as well as constructing a new 3-hole golf academy. This will involve
another mini-grow-in project, which I am eagerly looking forward too. I am very fortunate in that three of my
staff, Argyris Maratheftis, Costas Christodoulou and Sotiris Charalambous, speak very good English. Each morning, they help me with translating to the non-English speakers what jobs we have planned for the day and how we intend to do them. We employ one full time mechanic,
Gregoris Efthimiou. I have a young greenkeeper, Fotis Kotzias, who is also a qualified mechanic and can cover sufficiently when Gregoris is away for whatever reason. All staff make the normal pre-start checks to our machinery each morning and all maintenance is carried out in-house. I have a specialist irrigation technician,
Petros Almazidis, who is very capable when it comes to installing and maintaining our system to a high standard. The youngsters - Sotiris, Fotis and Pambos Charalambous - get the majority of the physical jobs as they tend to pay more attention to detail and are young and fit. The older guys - Argyris, Costas and Stelios Constantinou - tend to have the less demanding jobs, whilst I take on most of the important chemical and fertiliser application work myself. I aim to share the workload as much as
possible as I want to create a team of equals who work hard for each other. I have always followed the philosophy that “every man should be able to do every job” and my staff are all trained to be able to use every machine. I do not have a designated second
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