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Plans to increase its bee colonies to forty


Asian Tour players, Quincy Quek and Naoki Sekito, pay a visit to Sentosa Golf Club’s bee sanctuary


equipment has helped us reduce over 30% application waste, but more importantly it has 100% eliminated overlapping, which has helped to produced more consistent and healthier turf. With every application where there is an overlap, the problems caused on our surfaces have been created unintentionally but by over application of the product.


How do you undertake pest and weed control?


We use a rotation of products on a preventative basis to help us drive through disease pressure, but more importantly the new carbon products that we have been using have reduced our disease pressure so significantly that we are hoping we can become fungicide free in the near future.


Does your course suffer from specific disease outbreaks?


Our disease pressure is very predictable. It is dollar spot, curvularia, pythium root dysfunction, Brown Patch, and sometimes mechanical stress.


Are rabbits, badgers, foxes, geese, chafer grubs, worms etc. a problem?


We see our fair share of worms, moles, crickets and insect infestation from time to time, but we do not have a wildlife issue.


How important do you consider the local flora and fauna?


It’s a part of our culture and we find it very important to adapt to the local flora and fauna and make it part of our facility.


Do you have an environmental policy in place?


Our environmental policy in place is largely created by our in-house team, our goal is to be carbon neutral at some point in the near future.


Are there any special projects you are undertaking or considering?


One of the many special projects that we are currently undertaking is to create our own bee colonies. We have developed five new bee colonies and plan to grow it to forty within the next twelve months. Bees around the world have reduced in population by up to 70% and both us and science feel that, if the bee population were to become extinct, this could be the beginning of the end of the world. This is how important bees are to our survival and society. All golf courses have usable corners and it is in these corners that we are developing our bee colonies to help do our part in bringing them back to a healthy population base.


What would you consider to be the state of our industry and are we undervalued?


I think the state of our industry is in a bit of a flatline, if not a downhill slide. I wouldn’t say we at Sentosa Golf Club are undervalued,


We have found some products that we use are The 5th hole on the Serapong boasts incredible views of the Singapore skyline 30 PC June/July 2020


more effective when applied in lower temperatures, so there are times that we use applications at 2.00am to get the maximum out of the product


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