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 [...]
Frilford Heath Golf Club, Oxfordshire, has become the first in the UK to purchase a VGR Top Changer and course manager, Sid Arrowsmith, has big plans for the machine. The acquisition of the VGR Top Changer came through a need to introduce more sand into the upper profile of the golf greens across the three [...]
For MJ Abbott, Wiltshire based specialist contractors to the sports industry, the Campey Speedresser 24H is a valuable tool that has been used across varying sites since the purchase in July 2015. The machine was brought in to replace their existing Campey Speedresser that had been in use for some time, and the new Speedresser [...]
As contractors Southern Groundcare are charged with maintaining different sports surfaces from football pitches to bowling greens and it is for that reason they need machines to match their own versatility. In the Dakota 410 Turf Tender, Keith Petely, in charge of day-to-day management and company operations for Southern Groundcare, thinks they have got exactly [...]
Golf has been reintroduced to the Olympic Games for Rio 2016 when some of the games top names will represent their countries on the course after a 114 year absence from one of the biggest sporting events in the world. In 2013 Marcelo Matte’s company Green Grass Brazil started growing the grass for the new [...]
The landscape of Stoke City Football Club is changing with the Premier League team looking to progress up the league and the ambitions of manager Mark Hughes are matched by those of head groundsman Andy Jackson. The Potters recently purchased a Dakota 412 Turf Tender for use at The Britannia Stadium and their Clayton Wood [...]
For Stewart Duff, Course Manager at Gullane Golf Club, the Vredo Super Compact has helped to introduce more Fescue into the greens over the past six years. The course hosted the 2015 Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open, the first European Tour event to be played at the club, using 16 holes from Gullanes famous No.1 [...]
The Koro Recycling Dresser has helped to solve a problem that has existed for decades at Portmarnock Hotel and Golf Links which is under the stewardship of Links Superintendent Fintan Brennan. The course which overlooks the Irish Sea was opened in 1995 with Fintan playing a part in its construction in 1993, and moving into [...]
Thatch and debris can be common problems on football pitches but Glen Campbell, academy head groundsman at The Academy of Light, has found a way to clean up his act. Using a Votex VT420 compact vacuum sweeper supplied through Greenlay our dealer for the North East, Glen maintains clean surfaces at the UEFA five star [...]
In June 2016 24 of Europe’s top footballing nations will compete across France in the UEFA European Championship on pitches that have been prepared using a Koro Field Top Maker (FTM) with Universe® rotor. The competition has expanded from its usual 16-team format for the first time, extending the tournament to accommodate the growing number [...]
