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DAVE SALTMAN Managing Director
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Cover story 74 Maturing nicely!
Originally designed to be demolished after the games, the Olympic Stadium is now providing a modern home for West Ham United. Renamed the London Stadium, it retains its original purpose of showcasing athletics by retaining the original track underneath storeaway seating
Golf PETER BRITTON
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paul.hawkins@pitchcare.com Up for the cup 14
At 7.00am on Friday 28th September, the 2018 Ryder Cup tees of on the Albatros course at Le Golf National in France. Charmian Robson met with Golf Course and Estate Manager Alejandro Reyes to find out more about preparations for the event and to discover how a Spanish national came to be heading up the team.
Evans: Bunker work ‘too deer’ 22
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www.pitchcare.com 2 I PC JUNE/JULY 2018 14 Alejandro Reyes, Le Golf National 38 Michael Green, Victoria Park Bowls Club
Separated by a drystone wall from cervine Lyme Park, the golf course at Shrigley Hall Hotel and Spa has a taxing pest problem: its resident deer herd enjoys rolling in sand. Jake Barrow headed to Cheshire’s ‘Golden Triangle’ to meet the new team headed up by Ben Evans.
The roof of the world 30
This is how Welshpool Golf Club describes itself; “so unexpected, so unlike anything else”, its website proudly states. Jake Barrow headed to the mid‐ Wales venue to find out how two men and lots of sheep keep the course maintained.
Summer Sports Games brings bowls to HQ
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Royal Leamington Spa’s historic Victoria Park was one of the first sports facilities to be named as a venue for the 2022 Commonwealth Games, after Birmingham won the bid to host the games back in December.
Golden age pitch’s second innings 42
A Sussex country estate mentioned in the Domesday Book a thousand years ago, and world famous for its Capability Brown gardens, has an indelible and lasting link with cricket in Australia. Neville Johnson went there to see a pitch with an intriguing and rather surprising history.
April showers! 48
The Professional Grounds Team of the Year (Cricket) 2014, are experts in flood management. At Worcestershire County Cricket Club, nobody is a stranger to surface water. Jake Barrow met with Head Groundsman Tim Packwood to find out how the surface recovered after April’s incursion by Mother Nature.
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