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We have quite a lot of wildflowers that grow around our deep rough, so we cut and collect but, this year, we had to leave it out as I was getting squeezed on my budget
NVQ Level 3. I then have my Deputy, Joe Drummond, who has his NVQ Level 2 & 3, plus his PA1, 2 & 6 spraying certificates.” Craig tells me 2108 was a memorable year for him and the team. “I applied for the Bernhard Delegation trip for a second time. I got an interview and thought I did really well, but a month later I got a phone
call saying I didn’t get in. I was gutted. So, I applied again, got the interview and, whilst I didn’t think it went as well as the previous one, I got in. It was a great feeling. Also, last year in January, we went to watch the welcome ceremony at BTME where they give out the awards. Whilst watching the awards, I nudged my Deputy and said ‘that will be us next year’, because I knew we had the Matchroom Sport Championship on the PGA EuroPro Tour coming up and it was for an event award. My Deputy replied, ‘it would be brilliant just to be sitting down there as nominees’.”
“When we had the event, we went through appalling weather conditions, minimal staff, poor machinery and struggled with the distance from the shed as well. A lot of people who I knew in the industry wrote off to BIGGA nominating us and, at Christmas time, BIGGA phoned me
to say we had been nominated for the Championship Greenkeeping Performance of the Year award at BTME. We were up against Matthew Wharton CGCS MG and the team at Carolina Golf Club for preparing and maintaining the course during the 2018 United States Mid-Amateur Championship, just a week after the club was hit by Tropical Storm Florence; and Stewart Duff and the team at Gullane Golf Club for preparing and maintaining the course during the Aberdeen Standard Investments Men’s and Ladies Scottish Opens 2018. I didn’t think we would win it so, when it was announced we had won, the lads and me were over the moon and it was nice to share the moment with my girlfriend who got up on stage with us, as she helped us out for two weeks solid, as well as working her own job.”
Craig and his team are currently carrying out bunker work around the course. “We
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