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DAVE SALTMAN Managing Director
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pitchcare.com Gloucestershire cricket gets schooled
Pitchcare visited the Cheltenham Cricket Festival at Cheltenham College, which annually serves as the home of Gloucestershire County Cricket Club. The trip treated Jake Barrow to beaming sun, heavy run-scoring, and the final sessions of a four-dayer that would be won or lost by whichever attack decided to throw caution to the wind.
Golf PETER BRITTON
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paul.hawkins@pitchcare.com Hats off to Gaudet Luce 18
Built on little more than rubble, a shoestring budget and one man’s unfulfilled hopes of owning an M5 service station, Gaudet Luce Golf Club in Worcestershire has been open for only twenty-two years. But, with all these speed bumps, how can it be that the junior complex has risen to be a fixture on a prestigious amateur golf tour?
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28 Graham Wallace, Bransford Golf Club 60 Craig Williamson, May’s Bounty 28
Dark days and bright times have both run through the career of Graham Wallace, but 2017 marks a dual celebration for this lifelong greenkeeping professional. Greg Rhodes visits Bransford Golf Club, just a few miles west of Worcester and in the shadow of the beautiful Malvern Hills.
A family affair 38
Situated within the beautiful parklands of the Clandeboye Estate, and located only three miles from Bangor, Blackwood Golf Club’s Head Greenkeeper Alun Hughes talks to Kerry Haywood about life on the course and working with his son.
Summer Sports It’s a Blast at Aigburth
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Teams of tired people have been shifting portable grandstands across Liverpool Cricket Club’s home turf in preparation for Lancashire Lightning’s opening fixture in the 2017 NatWest T20 Blast. Previously, those stands surrounded a tennis court and a rugby union pitch.
New cover a valuable asset 52
Rain certainly does not stop play at one of Northern Ireland’s oldest cricket clubs, as Chris McCullough found out when he visited the Carrickfergus Cricket Club in County Antrim to talk to Head Groundsman Michael Kennedy and the team that help with the ground preparations.
Basingstoke Boy 60
Once a county outground, and with redevelopment plans to help get May’s Bounty back on the Hampshire fixture list, cricket owes it a debt of gratitude. Neville Johnson went there to see where a hero of his first got into the game and to meet the man who looks after it nearly 100 years on.
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