Winter Sports Addickted Groundsman!
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Last season, it is safe to say, was one to forget for Charlton Athletic FC. As well as narrowly escaping relegation from the Championship, the playing pitch at the Valley fell under heavy scrutiny. However, a total pitch reconstruction means that head groundsman, Nathan Chapman, can now sleep a little more easily.
Pride of the Clyde 64
With more illustrious clubs just a few miles up river in Glasgow, Greenock Morton FC retain a strong following that regularly has their loyalty tested as the ‘Pride of the Clyde’ yoyo up and down the leagues. If the team aren’t consistent, the playing surface certainly is, as Head Groundsman Mark Farrell explains.
Summer Sports A Priory engagement
A committed committee
Equestrian Star of the north
Also in this issue 100
Winner of the Flat racing category of the RCA Groundsmanship awards, Hamilton Park’s team have worked hard to make the most of track improvements and deliver a top quality racing surface to an increasingly discerning customer base
Artificial Surfaces Project management
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The Edgbaston Priory Club, based in the centre of Birmingham, has a history dating back 140 years. Tennis facilities include thirty-two courts, including championship grass, American Clay, artificial grass and indoor plexi-pave.
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Four Elms Cricket Club has a history that includes a cabbage patch, a hop field, Vauxhall cars, Chris Tavare ... and a nurses cottage! Assistant Groundsman, Clive Croft, details the work he and the team carry out throughout the year to keep the club an active part of village life.
More an orchestra ... 84
It is always pleasing when you hear of a sports club doing well and offering their community a vibrant place to play and enjoy participating in their chosen sport. One multi sports club that is enjoying this success is Bromsgrove Cricket, Hockey and Tennis Club.
Public Places Who cares?
Providing for the grassroots
Conservation Recycling the golf course
Technical Managing our turf
Seeing the wood ... News 5
104
David Rhodes looks at project management considerations between client and contractor, and why a consultant might be an important addition to the projects.
70 Grasscutter 70
112
James Hutchinson, Environmental Officer at The St Andrews Links Trust, offers us his advice on the use of recycled materials and their subsequent usage on a golf course.
116 118
With the arsenal of pesticides seriously diminished in recent years, just what is still available and what, if you have it in your store, will it actually control?
122
Weed control is an essential consideration when planting young trees, and Glyphosate provides an effective solution while avoiding risk to the trees themselves or the environment.
Topdressing - how and why? 124
Nigel Church, Product Trainer with Cutting Edge Training and Jamie Hughes, a former greenkeeper and now a Product Demonstrator with Ransomes Jacobsen, discuss the history and agronomic benefits of topdressing.
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What does the future hold for public parks and open spaces and what are the issues which parks managers are currently facing? Green Flag judge, Bernard Sheridan, issues a rallying call to get behind the Parks Alliance.
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Adam Witchell visits Stanley Park Sports Club, one of the first facilities in the UK designed specifically to cater for grassroots football. He talks to Grounds Manager Pete Hussey and Head Groundsman Nigel Harvey about the work they undertake on the fifty acre site
Are they on their way out? 126
The onrush of artificial grass pitches into winter sports, plus the installation of multi use games areas pretty much everywhere else, has prompted agronomist Tim Lodge to ask if natural golf greens are on their way out.
Breaking the law? 130
In the second of a series of three, Mike Atherton, Head Groundsman at King William’s College, Isle of Man, discusses how Liebig’s Law of Minimum might be inappropriate and that the Law of Tolerance may be a better reference point where the effects of phosphorus use are concerned.
142 Hot and bothered?
Looking back to look forward Moisture measurement
142 144 146
Pitch improvement programme 148 R&D Strategy for success Offside
150 152
Assess and identify Myerscough College Frank Newberry
116 136 140
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Clive Croft, Four Elms CC
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George Murdoch, Hamilton Park Racecourse
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