The Campey Soil Screener has brought multiple benefits to Paul Arson, course manager at Royal St. George’s Golf Club in Kent.
Paul decided to buy the machine in order to utilise a sand dune located on the course with a view to screening it for stocking the bunkers and other areas of the course which need sand.
After great success with sand he then decided to start screening the compost that was gathered from the site and applied the soil produced from it on the Open Championship course which last hosted the competition in 2011.
The Campey Soil Screener is currently providing Paul and his team with 150 tons of sand and 120 tons of soil a year which is having two major benefits both on and off the course.
“Because we can use our own sand there’s a definite environmental benefit as we don’t have to use lorries to ship the sand or soil to us, it also saves us money on having to buy both materials,” Paul explains.
“The only sand we buy now is for dressing our greens so it’s great for us to save money and help the ecosystem along the way.”
The portable vibratory Campey Soil Screener is the perfect machine for this job because of its mobility, allowing it to be taken to each of the sites with the ability to screen sand, soil, gravel and various other materials.
“For us the machine is great because we have a source of sand on site that we can continuously extract from, screening the sand of impurities before using it in the bunkers and other areas of the course.
“It’s a similar process with our compost heap. We gather all the debris, leaves, grass cuttings and other natural matter from around the fairways, greens and rough and then use the Soil Screener to filter out the residue after it’s decomposed.
“Once we have that soil we can redistribute it around the course as and where we need to, so we really make the most of all our resource,” concludes Paul.
