GroundsFest Academy has continued to expand its free educational programme following a successful wildflower-focused event held in partnership with DLF Seeds, combining expert-led classroom sessions with practical demonstrations.

Faced with a failing 1991 irrigation system and the added complexity of working on a protected historic site, Sutton Coldfield Golf Club’s course manager Chris Roberts led an in-house overhaul – cutting hand watering, easing staff workload and transforming how the heathland course is managed.

At The Els Club Vilamoura, Wayrobo and local partner Alvorada Tech deployed WayPick 2 on the driving range for real tournament-time ball collection – part of the company’s wider push into the Portuguese and European golf markets.

Joshua Thomason MSc, BSc (Hons), technical manager at Agrovista Amenity, provides a straightforward guide to feeding turf through the colder months, using the Winter Prime package within an integrated pest management programme, and applying Maxtima and Insignia when disease pressure requires fungicide support.

Fife-based dealer Double A has grown from demonstrating a single Groundsman aerator around Scotland’s golf and bowling clubs in 1996 to become John Deere’s largest independent turf equipment dealer in the UK, employing 56 staff across three outlets.

Swaffham Golf Club course manager Colin Hutt on managing free-draining chalk profiles with limited irrigation, and why soil sampling and annual programme reviews matter as much as the products themselves.

Mallorca’s largest golf resort has added autonomous fairway mowing at Son Muntaner, a closed-loop orange grove and carbon-neutral status at its Sheraton – all steps towards a 12 percent cut in golf emissions by 2028.

Course managers Sean McLean and Paul Smith on tripling their teams, 4am starts, a full-time dealer technician on site and the electric greens mowers that arrived just months before The Open.

With drought squeezing water resources across the UK, The Belfry’s greenkeeping team is presenting a DP World Tour championship course using nothing but treated wastewater from the resort – and says the surfaces are as good as ever.

As official partner of the inaugural event at The Els Club Vilamoura, Kress brought 75 turf professionals to the Algarve to see robotic mowers working on a live course – not on a demo stand.

Fifteen CEORA robotic mowers will cut The Belfry’s championship fairways overnight during the 2026 Husqvarna British Masters, supported by a dedicated team working 8pm to 6am. Seven units are already maintaining the venue in the build-up, alongside battery-powered handheld equipment used across tees, bunkers and course detailing.

Bernardus’ superintendent Niall Richardson on why the Dutch venue’s final preparations for September’s Solheim Cup are about expressing an identity built since 2018, not reinventing a course for one week.