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DAVE SALTMAN Managing Director
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JOHN RICHARDS Operations Director
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john@pitchcare.com Stuart Bertram, Moor Park Golf Club PETER BRITTON
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KERRY HAYWOOD Editor
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Cover story - 22 Parkland poetry...
It’s easy to see how waxing lyrical about the splendour of Moor Park is so very right. Neville Johnson went to this Hertfordshire golf club, that has a mansion for its 19th hole, to find out about its history and talk to Stuart Bertram, the man who looks after the two excellent courses.
Golf PAUL HAWKINS
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chris@pitchcare.com Hosts of the Curtis Cup 28
Widely acknowledged as one of Ireland’s most spectacular and challenging courses, the 27-hole Dun Laoghaire Golf Club championship course recently hosted the Curtis Cup, the biennial tournament between women amateur golfers from the USA and Great Britain & Ireland.
The origin of species? 34
ALASTAIR BATTRICK IT Manager
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DAN HUGHES Marketing & Sales
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28 Des McGann, Dun Laoghaire Golf Club 48 Andy Beck, New Milton Cricket Club
Maxwell Amenity’s Technical Manager, John Handley, heads to one of the remotest courses in Scotland for a spot of species analysis. Here he met up with Head Greenkeeper Allan McDonald, Muirfield’s Course Manager, Gordon Irvine and Paul Mills, Head Greenkeeper at Sutton Coldfield.
The need for speed? 38
Fine Golf’s Lorne Smith is a proponent of a return to a more traditional running form of golf, citing American ‘target golf’ as the creator of many of today’s woes. In this article, he invites Master Greenkeeper, Norbert Lischka, to offer his thoughts on the need for speed.
A seismic influence! 42
“One man’s waste is another man’s treasure” is a familiar idiom, the adage being that, what one person regards as utterly disposable and worthless is, in fact, of significant value in the mind of another. It is the principle on which the majority of recycling that our society undertakes is based and has created multimillion pound industries as well as contributing to the wellbeing of our environment.
Summer Sports Make mine a Becks...
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The small west Hampshire market town of New Milton lies midway between Lymington and Christchuch on the south coast. Tending the two ovals at the town’s thriving cricket club is Head Groundsman, Andrew Beck. Pitchcare called to see him as the season, and the evening, was drawing to a close.
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