CONTENTS Meet the
Pitchcare team
DAVE SALTMAN Managing Director
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JOHN RICHARDS Operations Director
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Issue 85 June/July 2019
KERRY HAYWOOD Editor
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kerry@pitchcare.com PETER BRITTON
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Jim McKenzie MBE, The Celtic Manor Collection COVER STORY: MBE of The Manor
Jim McKenzie MBE, Director of Golf Courses and Estates Management at The Celtic Manor Collection, is the latest of our Keynote interviewees. He speaks to editor Kerry Haywood about how a bucket of water thrown over him one day, paved the way for his career in the golf industry. P46
GOLF Commitment pays off CAROL SMITH
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LEE WILLIAMS Editorial
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Harleyford Golf Club lies about two miles west of Marlow, Buckinghamshire on a country estate near Harleyford Manor, which dates back to the 13th century. This is where Lee Williams met up with BIGGA award-winning Course Manager Craig Earnshaw. P14
Excellence personified
It would need to be something special to prise Peter Todd away from the London Club where he had ‘grown’ it to become a European Tour venue. So the opportunity to take on one of the largest new builds the UK has seen in recent years was one that he simply could not turn down. P22
‘Pioneering’ spirit
ALASTAIR BATTRICK IT Manager
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Looe Golf Club sits beside the A387 on the main road into the south Cornish fishing port of Looe. It occupies a high point known as the Bindown and, as a result, offers up some truly spectacular views over the coastline and surrounding countryside. On one of the wettest days a dry spring had provided, Lee Williams met with Mat Edwards to discover more about the course and his diverse role. P30
King of the Castle
The beautiful Cotswold village of Castle Combe is perhaps best known for its motor racing circuit, but nestled away in 350 acres of rolling Wiltshire countryside is the Peter Alliss and Clive Clark designed Manor House Golf Club, complete with mature oak trees, manicured fairways and spectacular par 3s, together with the By Brook dissecting the course to bring both drama and beauty. P38
WINTER SPORTS March of the green army
Plymouth Argyle are one of two English Football League clubs in the county of Devon in south-west England; the other being Exeter City, their nearest and closest rivals. Next season, the two clubs will renew their rivalry in League Two following Plymouth’s relegation by the narrowest of margins and Exeter’s failure to make the fourth tier play-offs in similarly unfortunate circumstances. The club are nicknamed ‘The Pilgrims’, after the historic sailing to America made by the Mayflower out of this important Royal Navy city, whilst their supporters are the ‘Green Army’. P56
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