Summer Sports - Commonwealth Games
A four way International match organised by Bowls Scotland was held last June, which was enormously helpful for feedback and testing equipment
everything from nine days of rain to nine days of sunshine has been considered.
Each entrant into the bowling events is scheduled practise time on the actual surface so, once play starts in the morning, the greens are in use virtually until darkness falls, so those early daylight hours will be incredibly important. However, it’s not hugely different from a major golf or tennis venue hosting an event.
We’ve got spare mowers and parts on standby and hope that we get a mixed bag of weather rather than either of the extremes.
Describe, if applicable yet, handover comments/feedback from the centre and governing bodies such as World Bowls and Glasgow City Council
At the end of the first year of the project Kerry Clark, World Bowls Technical Delegate for Glasgow 2014 and World Bowls Chief Executive Gary Smith came to Glasgow to meet the Organising Committee and assess the greens just after they were laid. At the
time, Gary Smith, World Bowls Chief Executive said; “It’s been fantastic to see first-hand the level of preparation and work that’s gone into the greens already, which is a credit to the Organising Committee and its Games Partners.”
"Bowls is a truly international sport and World Bowls is based here in Scotland. With this in mind, seeing how advanced Glasgow 2014 is in their planning and preparation, we are confident Glasgow 2014 will stage the best Lawn Bowls competition the Commonwealth has ever seen.”
Greg Warnecke, Head of Sport at Glasgow 2014 said; “Visits involving our International Federation representatives are an important part of our on-going planning. It offers us an opportunity to develop our relationship with sport governing bodies and instil a level of confidence in our preparations for 2014.”
"We are delighted to receive such positive endorsement and it’s extremely pleasing to receive this kind of feedback.”
We’ve got spare mowers and parts on standby and hope that we get a mixed bag of weather rather than either of the extremes
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David Gourlay, Head Coach Bowls Scotland commented; “The greens at Kelvingrove are in excellent condition; they are particularly smooth and flat and are well on track for providing a world class playing surface come July.”
What renovation work will be carried out after the games to get the greens and the venue ready for the next season?
Tiered seating for about 2,500 is readily removed, so it will be relatively quick to return the facility back to normal. Immediately after the Games, we will rest the greens for a week to try to let them recover. They will have been cut to a height of 3mm every day of the previous fortnight and in play for at least twelve hours a day, so we will fertilise them straight away and let them grow back without any rush to mow them urgently. After that there’s a plan to verticut, topdress, then hollow core and then leave them to further rest and let the grass grow.
Artificial banking has been installed
A Wiedenmann Terra Spike Gxi8 HD at work - leaving a perfect finish
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