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Contents Issue 60 April/May 2015
DAVE SALTMAN Managing Director
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JOHN RICHARDS Operations Director
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john@pitchcare.com Steve Winterburn, Brighton & Hove Albion
LAURENCE GALE Editor
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laurence@pitchcare.com
KERRY HAYWOOD Features Editor
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kerry@pitchcare.com Albion’s whole new ball game
Pitchcare visits the Amex, one of the country’s newest football stadiums, just months before it breaks new ground as the first to stage a Rugby World Cup game. It’s an impressive venue and very pleasing on the eye, both inside and out.
Golf PETER BRITTON
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peter@pitchcare.com CHRIS JOHNSON
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chris@pitchcare.com Número Uno on Mallorca 18
The Balearic island of Mallorca offers some of the finest golf in Spain and this almost hidden gem of a golf tourist destination boasts number eight in the top one hundred courses in Spain and, importantly, numero uno on the island itself; Golf Son Gual.
Sheikhing his stuff! 26
Not unlike the England cricket team, we have ‘borrowed’ native Irishman, William Evans for our ‘Brits Abroad’ series; well he does hail from the British Isles! By his own admission, he got into the industry by accident, but has since built himself an impressive career.
ALASTAIR BATTRICK IT Manager
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al@pitchcare.com DAN HUGHES
Sales &Marketing t: 01902 440 258
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www.pitchcare.com 2 I PC APRIL/MAY 2015 18 Gareth Anwell, Golf Son Gual 40 Richard Engall, Bushfoot Golf Club Graeme up Beatt for the Open 34
In 2019, Royal Portrush Golf Club, regarded as one of the finest links courses in the world, will host Northern Ireland’s first Open Championship since 1951. Situated on the rugged Atlantic coast, its stunning location provides something of a greenkeeping challenge, but one that new Course Manager Graeme Beatt is more than qualified for.
Small, but beautifully formed! 40
This year celebrating its 125th anniversary, Bushfoot Golf Club occupies a stunning coastal location midway between Dunluce Castle and the Giant’s Causeway, and just a few miles east of Royal Portrush. .
A step back in time? 46
Our ‘average’ golfer, Bill Workman, returns with a critique of Ludlow Golf Club. Playing off a handicap of seventeen, as he does, he delights in the quality of the course and the local brew, but warns of the ‘crater of doom’.
Industry Ten years of innovations 12
Pitchcare editor Laurence Gale MSc takes a look at the products and services that have made a greenkeeper’s or groundsman’s lot a good deal easier in the past ten years.
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