Golf
“ Ben Evans “ 24 I PC JUNE/JULY 2018
I think the Toro kit is the best available. It’s very good. I think they’re the easiest to maintain, and I’m used to them, because they had them at my old club
course is not owned by the members), but the club was recently taken over by a new, pro‐investment manager.
He, along with keeping plenty of staff, opted for a new fleet of machinery last year, and the Toro kit is a welcome relief to Ben, having spent the first part of his tenure almost exclusively hand‐mowing, to prevent the issues which come from cutting with blunt blades.
“I think the Toro kit is the best available. It’s very good. I think they’re the easiest to maintain, and I’m used to them, because they had them at my old club, Wilmslow.” Shrigley’s golf course is little over twenty years old, but the greens are of a push‐up construction and contain a lot of thatch. To tackle this, much of their aeration and scarification equipment must be rented, as the budget doesn’t stretch to non‐essential machinery.
They hire a Toro ProCore about six‐to‐ eight times per year and hit every green, and they also have a few more basic tools for aeration.
They solid tine most often, and have their own verti‐draining attachment, which they
have time to use about once per month. They will also be star‐slitting all greens weekly during the summer.
Whist the course is so young, the hall itself was built in 1825, as Blackburn MP William Turner’s Regency‐style replacement for one he had bought and demolished in the same location.
This original hall stood at least 700 years ago, and takes its name from the founding De Shrigley family, and has been transferred between bloodlines by marriage multiple times since.
Immediately next door (now joined by a walkway) is a chapel, which was supposedly built by the trainee monks who originally inhabited it. It is apparently made from local sandstone rubble.
These boys were educated in the chapel, and there were up to 200 at a time. The Salesian Order, a proselytising missionary order, were behind this, and had bought the estate for £3000 during the late interwar period.
The hotel and spa complex, plus the golf course, is currently owned by a small, independent company, having previously
It was crazy during the tournament. If I had to describe it briefly, I’d say it was false. They have a false way of doing things out there
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