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DAVE SALTMAN Managing Director
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JOHN RICHARDS Operations Director
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john@pitchcare.com Andy Richards, Shrewsbury School
KERRY HAYWOOD Editor
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JAKE BARROW Editorial & Media
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pitchcare.com Cover story 60 Celebrating ten years of the girls!
At Shrewsbury School, girls have only been admitted into the Sixth Form since 2008. Kerry Haywood met up with Grounds Manager Andy Richards to discuss the extensive sporting facilities at the school and how his team maintain the 128‐acre riverside location.
Golf PETER BRITTON
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paul.hawkins@pitchcare.com Out on a limb! The Coventrian Job 12
Nefyn and District Golf Club is in Peter Alliss’ top‐10 courses globally because of the views on its breathtaking, world famous peninsula ‐ but none of the members play those holes.
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CAROL SMITH Grounds Training
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Jake Barrow is sent to Coventry to catch up with Ashley Bulpitt, the Head Greenkeeper at Copsewood Grange Golf Club. A nine‐hole course too close for comfort to the River Sowe, it had recently suffered a major flood that swamped the whole site for close to a week, resulting in remedial work that tested the small team to the limit.
DAN HUGHES Marketing & Sales
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www.pitchcare.com 2 I PC APRIL/MAY 2018 28 Eoin Riddell, Royal Dornoch Golf Club 44 Micky Conway, AFC Telford United The ‘third’ greatest golf course! 28
Royal Dornoch Golf Club’s two courses lie on the exposed north‐east coast of Scotland. To reach this area takes a four hour drive from Edinburgh. It is in this somewhat remote yet remarkably beautiful part of the UK that Course Manager Eoin Riddell and his team of twenty look after what is regarded as one of the finest links venues in the world.
Me & Giulio down by the vineyard 36
A dream’s come true for a Zimbabwean entrepreneur, who has blended grape cultivation with exclusive golf to create a first for the UK. Greg Rhodes learns more from the estate manager who has witnessed a game‐changing transformation in turfcare.
Winter Sports ‘Temporarily’ Taking the Mick 44
AFC Telford United play in the National League North and, at the time of writing, were involved in a relegation battle with five other clubs. Pitchcare met Micky Conway, their ‘temporary’ Head Groundsman
Fake turf has true benefits 54
It costs a lot of money to install a 3G pitch and replace it after the usable life expires but, for one football club in Belfast, the benefits are clearly visible.
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