Golf
Alejandro Neyes - Career progress Golf Courses and Estate Manager Company Name: Le Golf National Dates Employed: Jan 2013 ‐ Present Employment Duration: 5 yrs. 5 months
Golf courses maintenance and renovation to host the 2018th Ryder Cup. Home of the HNA Open de France.
Golf Courses Superintendent Company Name: Selprats
Dates Employed: Dec 2011 ‐ Dec 2012 Employment Duration: 1 yr. 1 month
Supervising the maintenance of 3 Nicklaus golf courses (2 Nicklaus Design; Mar Menor and Saurines and 1 Nicklaus Signature; Condado de Alhama).
Superintendent
Company Name: Alhama Signature Golf Dates Employed: Nov 2009 ‐ Dec 2011 Employment Duration: 2 yrs. 2 months
Maintenance at the highest quality on a Jack Nicklaus Signature course. Construction Superintendent Company Name: Nicklaus Golf Trail Dates Employed: Jul 2007 – Nov 2009 Employment Duration: 2 yrs. 5 months
Construction of Condado de Alhama Signature course. Complete experience such as growing manager and course pre-opening at a Jack Nicklaus Signature standard.
Grow-in manager.
Company Name: Nicklaus Golf Trail Dates Employed: Jul 2007 ‐ Oct 2008 Employment Duration: 1 yr. 4 months
Managing a nursery to produce sprigs and sods getting the maximum production in the shortest time in adverse climate conditions to plan two golf courses.
FEGGA programme; at the Nicklaus Design courses.
Company Name: Polaris World Dates Employed: Apr 2007 ‐ Apr 2008 Employment Duration: 1 yr. 1 month • La Torre Golf Resort. Post‐opening stage
• Hacienda Riquelme: Construction and planting stage
• Mar Menor Golf: Maintenance stage • El Valle Golf Resort. Preopening stage
Qualifications
Irrigation Association. USA: Certified Golf Courses Irrigation Auditor
The University of Georgia: Certified Turfgrass Professional
Elmwood College, Scotland: Professional Development Award in Golf Course Management
Cranfield University: MSc Field of Study Sports Surfaces Technology
Universidad de Almería: Ingeniero. Field of Study Agronomia y Jardineria
EFA Campomar: FPI & FPII. Field of Study Gardens and Agriculture
18 I PC JUNE/JULY 2018
1500 sprinklers, connected by more than 50km of slits, containing 32‐315mm diameter HDPE pipes, controlled by a Toro Lynx irrigation computer.
Have you had much agronomic help?
Microdochium nivale control on the greens is our main agronomic challenge. Spray contact fungicide is not allowed in France, so our management approach combines both best practices of considering the environment and using a systemic preventive programme: Aqua‐Aid Oars PS, Marathon Golf, Matrix, Melstar S and the complete Melgreen range were used during construction and maintenance of Le Golf National.
Our programme objectives are:
• Use of biostimulants, phosphates all year and even oxygenated water in winter as curative solution
• Control the amount of N on greens. To avoid nitrate as an N source and favouring ammonium
• Tissue K testing throughout the active fusarium periods trying to go under two per cent on leaves
• Reduce mowing throughout the active fusarium periods as much as possible, keeping quality by frequent rolling
• Implementing a maintenance programme on greens to increase the creeping bent / poa annua balance on greens which is working very well
• Keeping the organic matter content under control, where we want to be
• A fungicide preventive programme from September using systemic active ingredients
• Sending disease samples to the laboratory and inoculating them with the few active ingredients available to study the percentage of tolerance to each ingredient
• To ensure the use of the active ingredients on the plus efficient possible manner:
regular spray equipment calibration, choosing the right nozzles regarding the droplet size and quality, and always choosing the best possible environmental conditions
For the future, so not affecting the Ryder Cup conditions, we are also developing a control programme with SGL in collaboration with Vienna University using a UV‐C light equipment, adapted for golf greens, to combat microdochium nivale. We hope to have this in place by next winter.
What additional crew have you had to take on for the big events?
We have a regular team of thirty. In the case of the French Open this increases to eighty, but for the Ryder Cup it increases to a total of 180. These are drawn mainly from Europe, but also the USA, North Africa and the Middle East.
When did you begin to prepare for the tournament, when will the building of hospitality units, villages and viewing galleries begin and are your team involved in this process?
The French Open needed only an eight week window to the tournament, but the Ryder Cup is much more demanding. So, construction began on the 9th April. One of the strengths of the course when it was being considered for the Ryder Cup was that all the play areas are in low positions and the standing areas in the rough in elevated positions, so part of the renovations was building kilometres of roads between every hole and the mounds, so the tracks are moving between the holes without disturbing play. This means that the construction companies handling all the hospitality units and viewing galleries, can access all the sites via this network of roads.
Has the course remained open during this time?
Yes. We will close on Monday 4th September; twenty days before the first practice day.
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