HAZARD PERCEPTION
Dr. Emma Saunders, General Manager at Genesis Biosciences, explores the benefits of using bacterial solutions to keep the waters of ornamental and recreational water features free from algae and contaminants.
‘Golf is a good walk spoiled.’
Whilst this famous adage – attributed to the illustrious American author Mark Twain – is one that we wholeheartedly disagree with, we are all too aware of the role that inadequate course maintenance can play in spoiling a good day of golf.
Golf remains an important element of the nation’s leisure time, with approximately 1.13 million adults playing the sport on a monthly basis in England alone – to varying degrees of success.
The golf industry adds a gross value of approximately £2bn to the UK economy, with courses ranging from the sublime, such as Wales’ Celtic Manor which hosted the exhilarating 2010 Ryder Cup, to ones that leave much to be desired.
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The industry is believed to have employed approximately 30,000 people across the country in 2014, with staff members required to keep courses well maintained and playable
And whist keeping fairways and greens immaculate is par for the course, keeping features such as ponds in top condition can leave maintenance staff pitching from the rough. Far too often the decision is made to neglect these features, leading to water bodies which fail to meet the standards of the rest of the course.
In order to keep the grass at its greenest, fertilisers are often used to maintain the quality of the fairway and green. However, run off from this method can cause nutrients to leach
“Keeping features
such as ponds in top condition can leave maintenance staff
pitching from the rough.”
from the land into the water bodies. An increased level of both phosphorous and nitrogen within a pond or lake will cause the algae which naturally reside there to bloom. This blooming is a period of intense growth, and confers a pea soup-like consistency to the water. Not only is this unsightly but also results in the generation of malodours through the depletion of oxygen within the water body.
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