Summer Sports - Bowls
Rainbird irrigation system, with eight sprinklers per green - four at each corner and one in the middle. “We added retaining wall features to tie the whole thing together and allow good public access around the greens,” Dave adds. The bulk of the construction work
drew to a close last summer, with the individually selected turf chosen to complete the job. Fine turf consultancy, Professional Sportsturf Design Scotland, were brought on board to select the most appropriate grass varieties for the task. A fescue bent mix was grown at the Sports Turf Research Institute in Bingley and specifically selected to meet the requirement of the city location. The remaining green allowed play to continue whilst the other five were being
rebuilt, Dave explains, and will not be fully renovated, but left as it is after the Games close.
Dave and his team are responsible for all the continuing maintenance of the greens up to and including 2014, after which, the work will be handed over to Glasgow City Council. “For now, it’s a matter of keeping it ticking over until the Games get underway,” adds Dave, “with the council hoping to stage some play at the back- end of the 2012 season, and the first trial matches likely to commence in 2013, a year before the first match of the Commonwealth Games.” Positive news stories have not been in abundance for bowls of late, with more focus being on the decline of the sport
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and the ever-falling number of functional greens available in the UK. The next year or two could see the beginnings of a rebirth for bowls as Bowls Scotland’s five- year strategy matures, reinforced by the Kelvingrove redevelopment and the world focus that will shine on it during the Games. With a little over thirty months until Glasgow 2014, the backbone of the work is done and a prolonged mild period has helped Fairways’ cause. “We’ve had little to do over the winter and, with so little growth on the greens, not much in the way of cutting has been needed. ”As temperatures rise, we’ll begin to cut more frequently than our current six- weekly intervals. But, the schedule might yet be subject to further change if we
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