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Tees and fairways
Golf Tees: Tees should always be designed so they can be maintained easily with reasonably sized equipment. Keeping a tee in good condition requires constant remedial work which can result in excessive wear. Therefore, the larger the tee, the less the effect of wear will be.
Bespoke short game facility raises the standard at Moor Park
At Moor Park Golf Club in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, the club’s mission is to be recognised as one of the top private members’ establishments in London and the Home counties. For the 23-strong greenkeeping team this means constantly improving the club’s 36-holes and various practice areas.
Bespoke seed mixture provides the perfect blend
The creation of a bespoke over-seeding mixture has enabled the greenkeeping team at Dunblane New Golf Club to improve the uniformity and aesthetics of the club’s fairways and tees, with a carefully chosen seed formula ensuring new grass growth blends seamlessly with the course’s existing swards.
What type of bowling green grass seed should I use?
Bowling green grass seed mixtures have traditionally comprised a blend of browntop bentgrasses and fescues, with Germinal’s A1 Professional Bowls (80% Chewings fescue and 20% browntop bentgrass) a prime example of this type of mixture.
Keeping East Molesey’s cricket square in prime condition
With a playing season that lasts from mid-April to late September – and on occasion into mid-October – ensuring there’s always a fresh wicket available for East Moseley Cricket Club’s first team is a real challenge, but one that the team at Greenside Up Grass tackles with relish.
Small team delivers big improvements at Caldwell Golf Club
Greenkeeper Barry McCulloch and a team of just three have made sweeping changes to enhance the playing surfaces of Caldwell Golf Club – a historic Scottish course.
External greenkeepers transform Flackwell fairways
Switching from an in-house greenkeeping team to an external sports turf maintenance contractor has transformed the fairways at Flackwell Heath Golf Club.
A career of course improvements at Dumfries and County
The course at Dumfries and County Golf Club has changed a lot in the 32 years since Steven Knaggs joined the greenkeeping team at 17.
If fescue is dial-up, dwarf rye is broadband
Germinal grass expert Sandy Pentecost shares his comparison of fescue and dwarf ryegrass in modern turf maintenance.
Examining cricket wicket maintenance at Ellesmere College
In July 2022, Germinal amenity grass expert Alex Beesley visited Ellesmere College’s head groundsman, Ian Morris, to discuss cricket wicket maintenance.