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DAVE SALTMAN Managing Director
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JOHN RICHARDS Operations Director
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john@pitchcare.com David, John and Sue Lawrence, Edgbaston Priory PETER BRITTON
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KERRY HAYWOOD Features Editor
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kerry@pitchcare.com The Classic approach...
The Grounds Team at the Edgbaston Priory Club this year oversaw the Aegon Classic Birmingham, featuring the strongest player line up in the event’s rich history, with over half of the world’s top thirty women players descending on the Birmingham venue.
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ALICE NORTHROP News and Features
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chris@pitchcare.com TPC Sawgrass - amazing 16
Five BIGGA members and one GCSAI member from Ireland recently returned from the trip of a lifetime to the TPC Sawgrass course at Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. In this article, GCSAI representative David Perdisatt from Naas Golf Club in Co Kildare recalls his ‘amazing’ experiences.
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ALASTAIR BATTRICK IT Manager
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24 Mike Cartwright, Highcliffe Castle Golf Club 46 Philip McCormick, Stormont
The best things in life come in small packages, and that is certainly true of Highcliffe Castle Golf Club, an 18-hole parkland venue on the Dorset coast. It offers glimpses of the sea at every turn, and often challenging weather patterns for Head Greenkeeper Mike Cartwright. In this article, Mike details the upkeep of the little course with a big heart.
Catering for golfers... 32
In a question and answer session, Head of Golf Course and Grounds at Les Ormes Resort in Jersey, Oliver Pennington, explains how he got into the industry and what he has been up to in the twenty months he has been back on the island.
Subtle ewence! 40
For a course that was only established as recently as 1992, Buckinghamshire Golf Club has made huge progress. It has been the headquarters of the European Ladies Tour since 2008.
Sports Clubs The Pavilion professionals
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The superb facilities offered by the Northern Ireland Civil Service Sports Association, at The Pavilion complex, are the responsibility of Head Groundsman Philip McCormick and his team. Still in his ‘first’ job, he is enjoying the challenges the forty- five acre site throws at him.
Gammon stakes his claim... 52
Pitchcare returns to West Bridgford Sports Club in Nottingham, after a gap of thirteen years, to find Head Groundsman Dave Gammon still remonstrating about compaction, budgets ...
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