Noel Mackenzie: How to get value for money on seeds and fertilisers 0
Seed purchases need to be carefully thought through.
Seed purchases need to be carefully thought through.
Planning for summer is a means by which the goals for the course are reached.
The popularity of golf is on the increase and a whole new generation of golfers, including women and children, are queuing up to tee off.
Europe’s largest ever survey of sport and active recreation rates golf the seventh most popular sport in England.
The current, longer, growing season has begun to have some very important implications in relation to machinery, budgeting and purchasing.
Merchandising is the art of silent selling, it is the ability to display your most profitable products to their best advantage and it is about making money.
It really doesn’t matter that you know how to read a profit and loss account, a balance sheet and a break-even point if you haven’t generated any profitable income in the first place.
Hankley Common, Beaconsfield and Royal St George’s golf clubs have been praised for their quality of ecological stewardship.
Cowglen Golf Club in Scotland has received £11,000 after it examined its water costs and usage in detail to ensure best value.
The landscape of a golf course should be unique; every course has its own character and charm.
Broughton Heath, in the Derbyshire countryside not far from Dovedale in the tiny village of Church Broughton, is an 18-hole golf course with 18 par three holes.
It is no use existing clubs fighting each other for members: unattached golfers – ‘nomads’ – have to be converted into members – and that means clubs must provide what they want.
As winter draws closer, the number of visiting parties decrease and the frequency of member visits to the course start to decline, it is a time of year when thoughts should be turning to winter work.
As the sun gets lower in the sky and daylight hours shorten so the plants on the golf green receive less light and heat reducing the ability of the grass to maintain condition under low cutting heights.
“Kids here are encouraged to take part in the club’s affairs. They get a handbook, bi-monthly newsletters and noticeboards which keep them informed. They’re not treated differently.”
There was a time when simply having a bar and dining facility at a golf club guaranteed that members and visitors would stay post round and use the facilities.
Neil Sjoberg, the manager of Epping Golf Club who built his club from scratch, has revealed that he uses glass for sand in his course’s bunkers, as part of his club’s environmental strategy.
During the Easter holidays Epping Golf Club hosts its annual ‘Mighty Masters’ golf tournament.
In one 18 month period, the club increased its full male members by 75, lady members by 30 and social members by 67.
Described as the one ‘they all want to play’, the West Course, or Burma Road, is arguably Britain’s most famous golf course.
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.
Drainage and irrigation both depend on a few similar phenomena such as gravity, hydraulic laws, the behaviour of water molecules and so on.
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.
One of the most famous golf clubs in the world – The Belfry – has begun marketing itself to beginner golfers.
Douglas Valley Golf Club in Bolton has applied to its local council to install two wind turbines on its golf course.
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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