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SALTEX: Charterhouse will highlight the Graden

SALTEX: Charterhouse will highlight the Graden Updated

🕔05:28, 11.Oct 2017

Charterhouse Turf Machinery will be highlighting the Graden GBS1200 at SALTEX this year. As always, it will also be showcasing a vast array of equipment for the care of both natural and artificial sports surfaces as well as landscaping products

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Why it’s important to clear a golf course of fallen leaves

Why it’s important to clear a golf course of fallen leaves

🕔04:48, 11.Oct 2017

Your course is a living organism that requires both air and sunlight to create food and grow.

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BTME has sold out

BTME has sold out

🕔03:20, 11.Oct 2017

The BIGGA Turf Management Exhibition (BTME) in January 2018 has completely sold out, its organiser has revealed. This has been achieved with still 100 days to go to Europe’s largest turf management exhibition. Within two months of BTME 2017 in

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SALTEX: ATT to appear under MTD branding

SALTEX: ATT to appear under MTD branding Updated

🕔23:25, 10.Oct 2017

Established under the new MTD ownership as the CubCadet INFINICUT® and the ATT TMSystem™, visitors to stand F041 will be able to see some new features on this unique mower range as well as a new face in northern territory

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New head greenkeeper for Park House

New head greenkeeper for Park House Updated

🕔13:26, 9.Oct 2017

The West Sussex-based, luxury country house hotel and spa, Park House, has appointed Jonathan Day as its new head greenkeeper. With over 23 years greenkeeping experience, Jonathan was most recently the course manager at Woking Golf Club in Surrey, a

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SALTEX: Germinal to showcase Cabrio

SALTEX: Germinal to showcase Cabrio Updated

🕔06:20, 8.Oct 2017

Grass seed and turf care specialist, Germinal, will be showcasing Cabrio, its latest ultra-fine perennial ryegrass cultivar for cricket pitches and tennis lawns, at this year’s SALTEX show. Cabrio Ultra Fine Ryegrass is the most recent addition to Germinal’s portfolio

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IOG SALTEX 2017 less than a month away

IOG SALTEX 2017 less than a month away Updated

🕔14:14, 6.Oct 2017

SALTEX 2017 has attracted some of the sector’s biggest names, ensuring that visitors can expect to see an impressive line-up of world-class innovation for use by greenkeepers when the event opens its doors at the NEC, Birmingham on 1 and

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The Machrie Links uses premium grass seed for renovation

The Machrie Links uses premium grass seed for renovation Updated

🕔04:50, 5.Oct 2017

With 20 years’ greenkeeping experience at major Scottish golf courses, Dean Muir was “looking for something a little bit different” three years ago when he upped sticks for The Machrie Links. And he’s certainly succeeded in his ambition. As one

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New appointment for manufacturer of the TMSystem™ and Infinicut™

New appointment for manufacturer of the TMSystem™ and Infinicut™ Updated

🕔19:05, 4.Oct 2017

MTD Specialty Turf Products, manufacturer of the ATT TMSystem™ and the Cub Cadet Infinicut™, have announced the appointment of Dougie Archibald as territory sales manager. Dougie is an established name within the industry, gaining a wealth of experience having worked

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New national account manager at Bayer

New national account manager at Bayer Updated

🕔22:14, 3.Oct 2017

Bayer Environmental Science has appointed a new national account manager for its turf and amenity products. Lewis Blois brings over 10 years of experience in the amenity sector to the Bayer Turf Solutions Team. He started his career with Bayer

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Call for golf clubs to plant more trees

Call for golf clubs to plant more trees Updated

🕔11:27, 2.Oct 2017

A councillor in Yorkshire has written to his local golf clubs asking them to plant more trees in a bid to boost woodland. Matthew Robinson, from Harewood Parish Council in Leeds, wrote to every golf club across his ward, along

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Scholars revealed for Continue to Learn at BTME 2018

Scholars revealed for Continue to Learn at BTME 2018

🕔09:16, 2.Oct 2017

BIGGA (the British & International Golf Greenkeepers Association) and ICL have disclosed the five successful recipients of the second ICL Continue to Learn scholarship. The ICL Continue to Learn scholarship offers five BIGGA members the opportunity to attend the Continue

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Drill n Fill used to prevent winter closures this year

Drill n Fill used to prevent winter closures this year Updated

🕔22:53, 1.Oct 2017

Drill n Fill is a smart choice for slow-draining golf greens this autumn, as clubs look to minimise closures during the winter. The legendary aerator is perfect for greens which suffer with puddling, compaction, thatch, black layer and poor grass

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Toro offers four ways to finance purchases

Toro offers four ways to finance purchases Updated

🕔15:48, 1.Oct 2017

With flexibility at the core of them all, Toro Triple Finance and the Buy Now Pay Later scheme offer customers four ways to finance their Toro machinery. Toro Triple Finance is a firm favourite for Reesink Turfcare customers, offering three

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Xpedite solves Downside’s flooding pitch problem

Xpedite solves Downside’s flooding pitch problem Updated

🕔04:49, 29.Sep 2017

Downside School, attached to Downside Abbey in Somerset, has had particular problems with the banks on the site causing issues with drainage on some of the site’s key sports areas. Headland Amenity’s Xpedite has helped Steve Eade, head of grounds

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Manor House Golf Club achieves anti-slip solution

Manor House Golf Club achieves anti-slip solution

🕔15:23, 27.Sep 2017

Opened for play in 1992, The Manor House is a golf course like no other. The mature oak and beech trees that line the magnificent fairways together with the immaculate greens and the River Bybrook meandering through the middle bring

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Letterkenny GC invests in first Wiedenmann Super 500

Letterkenny GC invests in first Wiedenmann Super 500 Updated

🕔05:31, 27.Sep 2017

Head greenkeeper, John Neilly, and his team at Letterkenny GC, are the first recipients of a Wiedenmann Super 500 in Donegal. The hugely versatile 3-1 collector, scarifier and verticutter was an easy choice for those who maintain the testing parkland

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Over 500 golf clubs have now installed non-slip surface

Over 500 golf clubs have now installed non-slip surface Updated

🕔21:31, 26.Sep 2017

What do slip accidents on your course actually cost? Cost to a golfer or staff member: Loss of income Pain from injury Reduced quality of life Worry and stress Cost to your club: Insured costs (injury, ill health, damage) Loss

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Apprentice greenkeepers pass first stage of work

Apprentice greenkeepers pass first stage of work Updated

🕔10:48, 25.Sep 2017

Two teenage employees at Castle Stuart Golf Links in Scotland are not letting the grass grow under their feet after completing the first part of a greenkeeping qualification. Reece Haspell and Kerr Edgar, both 17 and apprentice greenkeepers at the

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Javelin Aer-Aid ‘essential’ for turf management

Javelin Aer-Aid ‘essential’ for turf management Updated

🕔05:29, 23.Sep 2017

Following extensive trials conducted by the STRI, it has been concluded that the SISIS Javelin Aer-Aid tractor mounted aerator would be an essential tool within any integrated turf management programme. Over a four month period, extensive STRI trials led by

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Valderrama purchases new type of golf cars

Valderrama purchases new type of golf cars Updated

🕔03:16, 20.Sep 2017

Real Club Valderrama, host of the 1997 Ryder Cup, is the first golf club in Spain, and one of the first in Europe, to purchase a fleet of the recently launched E-Z-GO ELiTE golf cars. Local dealer Greenmowers made the

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