Seamus Rotherick
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In one 18 month period, the club increased its full male members by 75, lady members by 30 and social members by 67.
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Described as the one ‘they all want to play’, the West Course, or Burma Road, is arguably Britain’s most famous golf course.
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The business of managing fine turf for good putting green speeds is demanding and at nearly all courses these days it is a 365 day-a-year operation with around 2.5 hours of triple mowing undertaken per day as an average for 18 holes.
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The parent company of TopGolf, which runs driving ranges in England, has been named as one of the Daily Telegraph’s ‘Top 1,000 Brightest Businesses’.
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More than 11,500 golfers have entered the inaugural HowDidiDo order of merit which runs until the end of this October.
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Nominees for this year’s golf industry awards have been announced by Golf Tourism Scotland (GTS), the industry’s national trade body.
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Probably the biggest area of turf supply is the finishing off of tee constructions and bunker refurbishments during the winter months. The turf will vary depending on the type of surface and the situation.
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One of the most famous golf clubs in the world – The Belfry – has begun marketing itself to beginner golfers.
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Douglas Valley Golf Club in Bolton has applied to its local council to install two wind turbines on its golf course.
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The Bristol Golf Club in Almondsbury has abolished its dress code – and even tee times – for one of its courses, in a bid to attract more beginners to the club.
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You can become an expert in the field of stock control.
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Summer preparation requires planning when the inevitable need to restore and replenish the playing surfaces through renovations is being considered.
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The process of making your golf club accessible starts by first identifying how your course and clubhouse present the barriers that make a person’s impairment disabling.
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“We don’t try and compete with Sunningdale or Wentworth.”
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What is needed to run a course well?
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The club has become part of a modern hotel and resort, but its bond with the past remains as strong as ever.
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Late December and early January are not very nice times of year for grass.
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The Goodwood House is currently home to Lord March, who took over the management of the Goodwood Estate Company, and chairmanship of Goodwood’s main golf course, from his father.
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To keep turf healthy and maintain continuity of service, greenkeepers need to do everything possible to ensure that their courses can cope with prolonged wet weather and sudden influxes of water.
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“For the Open championships, enormous security measures are always put into operation.”
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Parc Garnant, a council-owned golf club in Carmarthenshire which was costing its county council £150,000 per year to run, has been handed over to a private firm to run, under a 25-year lease.
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There are a number of reasons why compost, produced from garden waste such as grass cuttings, prunings and leaves, has such good water retention properties and can be of considerable benefit.
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One of Britain’s top agronomists has said that golf clubs should renovate their tees, greens and fairways as far ahead of winter as possible.
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The R&A has announced that the Old Course at St Andrews, officially the oldest golf course in the world, will host the 2015 Open Championship.
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A National Lottery programme has given a grant of £2,000 to a Nottinghamshire golf club to help it work more with juniors.
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The actor, author and television presenter, Stephen Fry, has been granted honorary life membership at Connemara Golf Club in Ireland.
