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When I was younger, summer was in summer! Now, down


here, it can be baking hot any time from April onwards and they are def initely wetter


nutrition through carbon and sugars. He also introduced him to high seaweed feeds, along with a new wetting agent programme and the use of Humic and Fulvic acid. Dave comments: “Historically, Vince chased colour, but I have changed his mind set of ‘green is good’ and we are now looking to improve root development and mass, whilst introducing a better environment for the fi ner bent grasses to thrive. This programme has contributed to less reliance on fungicides and we have reduced his applications by half in the fi rst two years of working with him.” Five years ago, the club more or less


9th hole


What’s in the shed


Kubota RTV 900 Kubota tractors one with loader x 2 Toro Trifl exes 3400 x 2 Toro Z mower Toro sidewinder Toro fairway mower RM5500 Wessex rotary trail gangmower Jacobsen hybrid handmowers x 2


replaced their whole fl eet of equipment on a fi ve-year hire purchase deal through Devon Garden Machinery. This included two Toro Greensmaster Trifl ex mowers - one for the tees and one for greens, a Toro Reelmaster Sidewinder and a zero-turn mower. “It was great to have all the new machines, but fi ve years is a long time in this job. The new Toro machines are excellent, but we have had them for six years and some things are now just breaking on a regular basis.” “Most of the servicing on the machines is undertaken by ourselves. I buy in a service kit and change the oil and fi lters myself. For any repairs we cannot fi x ourselves, and for cylinder regrinds, we use a local guy who is very good.”


Like China Fleet Golf Club and Looe Golf Club, which I also visited while in Devon and Cornwall, Vince has suff ered with leatherjackets. “We’ve had a problem with leatherjackets for the last two years. It was a choice between nematode control or Syngenta’s Acelepryn. I listened to Dave’s advice on that and went with Acelepryn, but it is diffi cult to say what results we have had from the product at the moment. We still have a leatherjacket problem, but the rates


that they let you apply this type of product are not amazing. I think it will be a case of seeing what happens when we apply again this year to see how well it has worked. The seagulls don’t seem to be tearing up the greens as much as they were, so it must be having some eff ect.” When Vince fi rst started working on the course, everything was manicured from greens to rough, but this has begun to change as he now appreciates the advantages of letting some areas grow up. “The Greens Chairman has a passion for heather and gorse and we’ve allowed many natural areas of the course to grow, attracting birds and wildlife. I mow the greens now and look out at the longer grass waving in the wind, and I think that looks really nice. I think it is all part of how things have been changing over the years. We have an area between the eighth tee and twelfth which we call the eco-rough, which we just let go, and it now has some wildfl owers growing in there. “Last year, we entered a tree planting programme and a large number of trees were donated by members, which were planted at the start of lockdown.” Vinced concluded: “I am lucky to work with such a great team who are all dedicated to the course and committed to achieve excellent standards. The Greens Committee have always supported everything we do, which is brilliant for both us and the course.”


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