GOLF
I was taking notes in terms of a long-term project that I already had in my mind but, to be honest, it never really lasted that long, it lasted about a day!
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Wallace explains: “I had a meeting with all the boys, individually and collectively, when I came here and said I’d have a little bit of a watching brief to see how they work because they were doing a good job. I was taking notes in terms of a long-term project that I already had in my mind but, to be honest, it never really lasted that long, it lasted about a day!” “We needed to change a few things straightaway, not in a derogatory way to them at all, but things didn’t fit into how I saw the vision of what we were doing. From there, everything started to change, and we quickly went back to square one and back to basics. We were trying to get ourselves open and playable again. Almost, I guess, like my days at Sweetwoods Park which I suppose unconsciously sort of helped, from taking somewhere from nothing coming back to being playable. Obviously, it was different, but there were still a lot of the elements that were sort of the same within that. And really, they were quite exciting days opening up again and putting the
Having more linksy characteristics one side of the road and more true heathland on the other side, with a bit of a mix in places, is almost like having two different golf courses
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course furniture out because it had been so long.”
“Most of the landscape management plan the club sent me is based on the heather regeneration side, so there wasn’t much in there on the actual golf course side. That has been left to me. What I gathered from the early days, and what I could see straight away, is that there’s a lot less fescues out there than there should be. It’s essentially a links golf course, primarily because it’s heathy and linksy and because this side of the golf course is almost in the sea and its pure sand. It gets a bit different on the back nine of the course, that’s where there’s more heather.”
“The heather management is huge and, if we get the equipment for that, it’s going to push on really quite quickly and we’ll see a big difference. We won’t see a lot this winter because we did a lot of pure clearance and we’ll do some more of that this year again, but heather takes a long time to get going. You’ve got to create the exact environment for it, otherwise it just won’t work. It is a big
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