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DAVE SALTMAN Managing Director
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JOHN RICHARDS Operations Director
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john@pitchcare.com Mark Heap, Bradford & Bingley Sports Club PETER BRITTON
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KERRY HAYWOOD Features Editor
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kerry@pitchcare.com Site of the Bumble Bees
Bradford & Bingley Sports Club recently hosted the inaugural Mixed Abilities Rugby World Tournament, in which teams from ten countries partook. Head Groundsman Mark Heap (and Jake) was delighted to have been involved
Golf
ALICE NORTHROP News and Features
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alice@pitchcare.com CHRIS JOHNSON
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chris@pitchcare.com Whispering Woods... 12
Its English name of ‘whispering woods’ perfectly describes Coed-Y-Mwstwr Golf Club’s peaceful, tree lined fairways and wooded location. Tending the ‘green stuff’ and much more is Head Greenkeeper Andrew Hatcher, who currently heads up a full-time team of three.
Superintendent and leaseholder! 18
ALASTAIR BATTRICK IT Manager
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al@pitchcare.com DAN HUGHES
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18 Donal Murtagh, Ashfield Golf Club 36 Steve Birks, Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club
This year, Ashfield Golf Club in Northern Ireland celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary. Alan Mahon, editor of the GCSAI’s Greenside magazine, went along to meet with Donal Murtagh, who is both the course superintendent and the leaseholder of the club.
Cleverly, by nature 24
His calm demeanour belies an adventurous nature that leads his friends to call him the Indiana Jones of golf course management. Yes, Neil Cleverly welcomes a challenge, and he has certainly had one in the past two years as he brings the Olympic golf course in Rio de Janeiro to fruition
A Vale of beauty 30
Set in beautiful parkland in the Vale of Glamorgan, Brynhill Golf Club is a picturesque 18-hole course, managed for the last fourteen years by Course Manager Iain Grant.
Summer Sports 18 years, not out
It’s all in a Day’s work Cover Story - 48
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On the last day of the season Kerry Haywood met Steve Birks, Head Groundsman at Trent Bridge, to catch up on latest developments and talk end of season renovations.
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Harborne Cricket Club’s new Head Groundsman, Peter Day, looks after two adjacent grounds close to the centre of Birmingham. One of his first tasks was to clear out the sheds of old and unwanted equipment and to draw up a wish list of replacement kit, as he explains to Pitchcare.
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