Golf
David outside the clubhouse
The 358 yard, par 4, 10th green
The greens were reconstructed in the late 1990s to USGA sand based specifications. For over half of its history, Kedleston Golf
What’s in the shed? Toro 5610 Reelmaster Toro 4000D Groundsmaster Toro 4300D Groundsmaster Toro 3100D Sidewinder x 2 John Deere 2500E Hybrid x 2 John Deere 2500E John Deere 365 gangmower John Deere 4310 tractor John Deere 3520 tractor Ford 2120 tractor JCB 801.8 digger Dennis pedestrian mower Pro Spreader Wiedenmann GXi HD Terra Spike Sisis Rotorake Sisis Star Tiner Multi Slitter Bernhard Angle Master 1000 Bernhard Express Dual 3000 Stihl Blowers x 2 Stihl Chainsaws x 2 Stihl Strimmers x 2 Flymo hover mower Greens Iron 3900 Tornado Blower
Machinery servicing is carried out in house by the team’s greenkeeper/mechanic.
Club has been tended by David Leatherland who joined the club straight from school in 1974, completing his City & Guilds in his formative years. He was promoted to Head Greenkeeper just four years later at the tender age of twenty. Therefore, in 2014, he celebrated his fortieth anniversary, and it is testament to his love of the club that he continues to move with the times to produce such fine surfaces for golfers to play on. David has a team of six to assist him. His deputy is forty-six year old Paul Roe who has been at the club for eighteen years. Greenkeeper/Mechanic Adrian Mellor has seventeen years service, with first assistant Frazer Harrison (seven years) and youngsters Christian Hardy (two years) and Ben Archer (one year) completing the team. Patrick McCabe has recently joined on an apprenticeship scheme which, David confirms, is “going okay; it’s early days.” Apart from employing the services of
agronomist Adam Newton and contractors for some of the heavy work, all work is carried out in-house. All staff are compliant with current legislation and, to keep up to date, are provided with ongoing training. David is responsible for his own budgets. Machinery is generally purchased on a five- rear replacement basis, with Toro and John Deere machinery forming the main fleet. Toro machinery is purchased from local dealers P S Marsden, whilst the Jon Deere kit is bought from Henton & Chattell. The recent purchase of a Wiedenmann GXi
HD Terra Spike from local dealers Henton & Chattell has seen the machine become a firm favourite. “After a visit to BTME and a very thorough on site demonstration, the deal was struck,” he states. “For lots of reasons it just suited us … its size; our type of course - our greens are built on sand with everywhere else being clay-based; and the fit with our tractor. It was simply the right machine. Its main focus is to pencil tine all the greens, which we do on a monthly basis.” The greens are cut at 3mm in the summer,
The greenkeeping team l-r: Christian Hardy, Ben Archer, Frazer Harrison, David Leatherland, Patrick McCabe, Adrian Mellor and Paul Roe
22 I PC DECEMBER/JANUARY 2015
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