| The Making of Machrihanish Dunes
| Course's architect, head greenkeeper jump environmental hurdles to help create a natural gem
| | Golfdom | Just inside the seaside dunes in this speck of a town on the Mull of Kintyre in southwestern Scotland, a golf course is coming to life. To say it is being "built" is somewhat misleading. It's more as if Machrihanish Dunes Golf Club is being unfurled or, perhaps, revealed. |
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| The Making of Machrihanish Dunes
| Course's architect, head greenkeeper jump environmental hurdles to help create a natural gem
| | Golfdom | | Just inside the seaside dunes in this speck of a town on the Mull of Kintyre in southwestern Scotland, a golf course is coming to life. To say it is being "built" is somewhat misleading. It's more as if Machrihanish Dunes Golf Club is being unfurled or, perhaps, revealed. |
| | A Stately Honor
| Royal Birkdale's raw beauty tests the best in The Open Championship
| | Golfdom | | When the british open returned to royal birkdale this month for the first time in a decade and the ninth time in all, history favored an American or Australian champion. Only golfers from those two countries have ever held the Claret Jug aloft at the magnificent links layout on the coast of Lancashire, England. Names such as Arnold Palmer in 1961, Peter Thomson in 1954 and 1965, Johnny Miller in 1976 and Tom Watson in 1983 alternated with relative outsiders such as Australian Ian Baker-Finch in 1991 and Mark O'Meara in 1998, the last time the event was played at Royal Birkdale. |
| | Richard Jenkinson
| | Golfdom | | Richard Jenkinson will never forget The Old Course. He learned so much while working there in the 1990s, and he's grateful for the experience. |
| | Overseer of Oporto
| No one knows Portuguese course better than head greenkeeper Jose Granja
| | Golfdom | | As resort golf expands across Portugal with the majority of courses in the Algarve and Lisbon regions catering to tourists from places such as Great Britain, Scandinavia and Italy, Jose Granja does what he has been doing for nearly 50 years — working at Oporto Golf Club, Portugal's only links golf course, located about 20 kilometers south of Porto. For almost 16 years, he has been head greenkeeper — doing his best to bring back top-quality turf, which is out of sight and mind for most vacationers. |
| | BIGGA Impresses
| An American superintendent in England reports on his first experience of 'Harrogate Week'
| | Golfdom | | For the past 10 years, I've attended the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America's (GCSAA) annual conference, now called the Golf Industry Show (GIS), and have been rather comfortable with the ways things operate, both on the trade-show floor and with the overall atmosphere. That said, I really wasn't sure what to expect when I attended the British and International Golf Greenkeepers Association's (BIGGA) British Turf Management Exhibition (BTME) show in Harrogate, England, in January. What I found, however, was both surprising and refreshing. |
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| Parts Training Places Up for Grabs
| | Golfdom | | Leicestershire, England — John Deere is courting applications from dealers for places on the 2008/2009 Parts Tech training programme for aspiring parts apprentices. |
| | Myerscough Students Benefit From Express Study
| | Golfdom | | Lancashire, England — Having recently purchased a set of Express Dual and Anglemaster 3000's for their Turfgrass Education Centre, Myerscough College has been working with Bernhard and Co. for training and education programmes for their students. |
| | Toro's Student of the Year Returns With Professional Vigor
| | Golfdom | | Bedfordshire, England — Toro's Student Greenkeeper of the Year 2007 has recently returned from an eight-week educational trip to the United States, which he says was filled with academic theory to compliment his hands-on training. |
| | Expectations Hight for Hills/Forrest's First Foray into Russia
| | Golfdom | | Moscow — Russia's first golf resort-hotel development is beginning to take shape. Construction at the Forest Hills Golf Club will be completed this year. The Arthur Hills/Steve Forrest and Associates design sits on 550 rolling, wooded acres on the outskirts of Moscow, 45 minutes from downtown. |
| | Jacobsen Supports Czech Greenkeeper Exchange
| | Golfdom | | Cheshire, England — Six course managers from CZ Golf, a golf course operator and management company based in Prague, Czechoslavakia, visited The Tytherington Club and spent a week working with course manager Sandy Anderson and his team looking at best practices on a UK golf course. Ransomes Jacobsen supported the visit helping with the logistics and general travel arrangements. |
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