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Whilst watching the awards, I nudged my Deputy and said ‘that will be us next year’. He replied, ‘it would be brilliant just to be sitting down there as nominees’


Left to right: Aaron Hurdwell, James Otterway, Craig Earnshaw, Martyn Metcalf and Joe Drummond


What’s in the shed


Old machinery Jacobsen Eclipse 322 Jacobsen Greens King 522 Ransomes HR-6010 John Deere 2653B Toro 5400 Reelmaster x 2 Toro Greensmaster 3250  Toro Workman MDX x 2 Turf Iron Kubota tractor New Holland tractor Volvo mini excavator John Deere 22B x 4 John Deere 26A x 3


New Machinery Toro Greensmaster TriFlex 3420 x 2 Toro Groundmaster 4300 Ransomes HR-6010 Toro Reelmaster 5410 x 2 Toro Greensmaster 3250  Toro Workman MDX x 5 Turf Iron Kubota tractor New Holland tractor Volvo mini excavator Toro Greensmaster 1000 x 4 Toro Greensmaster 1600 Toro Groundmaster Sidewinder


20 PC June/July 2019


had a bunker on the 14th hole, which was really deep, making it difficult to maintain, with really high faces to Flymo and was stony and right into the chalk. We have raised it up using fill from the new compound, which was handy, and we have revetted it. We have also reshaped various other bunkers around the course.” Craig does what he can to help improve the ecology around the course. “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 as we had to reseed some fairways after the drought but, following a year of little growth, it doesn’t matter too much. We have deer on the site, buzzards and red kites that nest and we see kestrels. Whenever we cut trees, we put together eco piles, and I would like to get some bee colonies around the course. I feel once we have some of the big projects out of the way, this will be one I would like to get my teeth into.” Craig tells me his thoughts on the industry. “I think the industry now is in a good place, but I’m apprehensive about the


next ten years, because it’s tough to get people into it. I think we have had a lot of education over the last ten years, with a lot of people who know what they are doing who can go and get the big jobs. But, in ten years’ time, I think we are going to struggle because people don’t want to come into it and that’s where we are going to find the issues. We need to change the way the industry is viewed now to get people in so that doesn’t happen.”


“We need to be going into schools, advertising what some people have achieved in this industry, show them it’s a career, and that you don’t need a BA honours in turf technology to be a course manager; that you can achieve it by working hard and progressing through the ranks.”


New maintenance facility nearing completion in April 2019


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