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Meet the course manager: Paul Armour
Paul Armour, course manager at Gullane Golf Club in East Lothian, discusses the realities of introducing autonomous mowing, how his team responded and why he believes the technology will be a familiar sight on golf courses in the years ahead.
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A guide to integrated pest management for winter turf
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.
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Dennis and SISIS coverage extends across East of Scotland with Thomas Sherriff expansion
Haddington-based dealer Thomas Sherriff & Co can now supply the full Dennis and SISIS ranges throughout Midlothian, East Lothian, West Lothian and the Scottish Borders, completing its coverage from North Yorkshire to the Forth Bridge.
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John Deere’s largest independent UK turf dealer, Double A, celebrates 30 years
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.
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The Grove signs 10-year Toro deal with full fleet renewal and course-wide irrigation
The Grove in Hertfordshire has extended its 22-year relationship with Toro and Reesink UK through a new decade-long agreement, investing in a complete machinery fleet update, a wall-to-wall irrigation system and a suite of digital turf management technologies.
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Baroness expands East Anglia coverage with G&J Peck dealer appointment
Baroness has appointed G&J Peck Ltd to its UK dealer network, giving customers across East Anglia access to the full Baroness mower and maintenance range from the firm’s three depots in Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk.
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This is Swaffham Golf Club’s measured route to better turf
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.
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Every Mallorcan GEO-certified course is at the same resort
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.
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John Deere supports back-to-back championships at Birkdale and Lytham
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.
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How The Belfry is watering a Tour venue in a drought
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.
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Kress puts autonomous mowing to the test at Portugal Invitational
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.
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Husqvarna robotic mowers take on the Brabazon ahead of 2026 British Masters
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.
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Fine fescue and firm surfaces – Bernardus readies for the Solheim Cup
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.
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The Scandinavian Golf Club opens up its fleet buying, picking Baroness
The Scandinavian Golf Club’s course manager Russell Anderson explains why abandoning package deals in favour of open testing led the Top 50-ranked Danish venue to four LM551B fairway mowers.
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Drought leaves greenkeepers defenceless as badgers tear up irrigated turf
Golf courses across England have reported damage caused by badgers recently, because irrigated turf is now the only diggable ground on many sites. With no soil-acting insecticides available and nematodes unviable in these conditions, course managers have almost no options.
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Warwick Racecourse relies on Mansfield Sand for year-round track consistency
Warwick Racecourse head groundsman Guy Woodward explains why Mansfield Sand’s rootzone and fibre-reinforced products are central to keeping the jumps track raceable through winter rain and summer drought.



