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Lydney Golf C lub Applications are invited from suitably experienced persons to fill the post of

H E A D G R E E N K E E P E R at our nine hole golf course situated in Gloucestershire.

Salary would be by negotiation.

Please reply with full CV to: L. Ellerington, Hon Secretary, 12 Lancaster Drive,

Pr imrose Hill, Lydney, Glos GL15 5 S N Closing date: Monday August 22nd 1994

Bristol and Clifton Golf Club requires a

HEAD GREENKEEPER Applications are invited from experienced greenkeepers who possess the necessary management and supervisory skills with

appropriate greenkeeping qualifications and detailed knowledge of the use and

maintenance of modern machinery. Salary negotiable

No accommodation available. Replies in writing with full CV together with

name and address of two referees to: The Managing Secretary

Bristol and Clifton Golf Club Beggar Bush Lane, Failand,

Bristol BS8 3TH

Southerndown Golf Club requires an

EXPERIENCED HEAD GREENKEEPER for an 18 hole championship downland links course.

Applicants must be suitably qualified and have a proven record in all aspects of course management and

machinery maintenance. The ideal candidate must have the ability to lead and

motivate staff, organise work programmes and maintain healthy and safety requirements.

Salary negotiable but will be commensurate with the importance of this position.

No accommodation available. Apply in writing with full CV to:

The Secretary Southerndown Golf Club, Ewenny,

Nr Bridgend, Mid-Glamorgan CF32 0QP

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THE LONDON GOLF CLUB "Simply Europe's Best'

requires qualified

ASSISTANT GREENKEEPERS

The London Golf Club is a multi-million pound private members club with the finest maintenance facility in Europe. Comprising of

two 18 hole golf courses, built to USGA specifications: The Heritage Course, designed by Jack Nicklaus, seeded with

Providence 1019 creeping bent; and the International Course, designed by Ron Kirby of Golden Bear Design, seeded with

colonial bents and fescues. We are situated on 560 acres in the heart of Kent, but only 25 miles from central London.

The London Golf Club officially opened on 10th July 1992 and we now look to complement our greens staff team with highly

motivated, enthusiastic greenkeepers to maintain the high standards that have been determined.

The ideal candidates will be suitably qualified (spraying certificates would be an advantage), hard working and conscientious. The

salary will be negotiable according to age and experience.

Apply in writing, enclosing CV to: Stephen Marsden, Courses Superintendent,

Greenkeepers Compound, The London Golf Club Pic, South Ash Manor Estate, Ash, Nr Sevenoaks, Kent TN15 7EN

Zeewolde Golfc lub requires a

HEAD GREENKEEPER

The Zeewolde golf club in the Netherlands, founded in 1984 in the reclaimed Flevopolder, wishes to appoint a Head Greenkeeper to replace the present holder of this position who is leaving the club on 1 September 1994.

The existing 18 hole course and a 9 hole pitch and putt course are situated in attractive rural surroundings about 30 miles east of Amsterdam. In the next few years the 18 hole course will be extended with another 9 holes in woodland.

Applicants should be fully qualified with experience in modern greenkeeping methods, irrigation systems and the management of personnel and maintenance contractors. Experience in course construction and maintenance in the growing-in phase is an advantage.

The club will assist in finding accommodation and the salary and other benefits are negotiable.

Please apply in writing with full CV to: T h e Secretary , S t ich t ing O p e n b a a r Gol f Z e e w o l d e , P o s t b o x 47 , 3 8 9 0 A A Z e e w o l d e , T h e N e t h e r l a n d s

Diisseldorfer Golf Club e.V.

DEPUTY HEAD GREENKEEPER Required for 18 hole course in Germany. Applicants must be experienced in all aspects of greenkeeping maintenance and

have a good knowledge of modern machinery.

Salary negotiable. Accommodation available.

Apply in writing with CV to: Mr C. Irvine, Diisseldorfer Golf Club e.V.

Rommeljansweg, 40882 Ratingen

Birchwood Golf Club Ltd require a

DEPUTY HEAD GREENKEEPER Applicants must have suitable qualifications and be experienced in

all aspects of course management. The ability to motivate and direct staff together with a practical

knowledge of modem greenkeeping practices and equipment maintenance is essential.

Accommodation is not available. Salary negotiable. Please reply in writing with full CV to:

Mr Peter Baume, Birchwood Golf Club, Kelvin Close, Birchwood, Warrington WA3 7PB

ASSISTANT COURSE MANAGER Salary negotiable

Harborne Golf Club (B i rmingham)

ASSISTANT GREENKEEPER

Required to join an enthusiastic team on this well known Midland Course. Applicants should have approximately four years experience and will be expected to attend

Greenkeeper Courses as relevant.

Apply in writing to: T h e Secre ta ry , H a r b o r n e Gol f C l u b ,

4 0 T e n n a l R o a d , H a r b o r n e , B i r m i n g h a m B 3 2 2 J E

W e s t Park is a flourishing 36-hole parkland and lakeland course of superior construction. We are committed to maintaining the highest

standards of course quality. We seek an Assistant Head Greenkeeper or person with several years

experience in a similar role at an 18-hole course (or larger). You should have the necessary qualifications, (including PA2 for spraying) along with a good understanding of Automatic Irrigation Systems and an

ability to control staff. In return we offer a good salary, fringe benefits and career

potential. Please apply in writing with current C V and salary to: Mark Smith, Course Manager,

W E S T PARK Golf & Country Club, Whitt lebury, NrTowces te r , Northants, N N I 2 8 X W

CONTRACTS MANAGER IRRIGATION

The lead ing spor t s turf i r r igat ion contractor in the N o r t h East u rgen t ly requires an exper ienced contracts manager .

If y o u feel y o u h a v e the fo l lowing skills, w e ' d like to hear f r o m you:

• A p r o v e n track record of exper ience in the i n d u s t r y

• The ability to m a n a g e projects large a n d small

• The skill to get the best f r o m the t e ams y o u m a n a g e

• The tenaci ty to w o r k w i t h dedica t ion , e n t h u s i a s m a n d efficiency

If successful , y o u wil l be joining a c o m p a n y w h o s e s teady a n d g r o w i n g success ha s been buil t on service.

Salary a n d benef i t s will be c o m m e n s u r a t e w i t h y o u r exper ience a n d ability.

If y o u w o u l d enjoy this chal lenging o p p o r t u n i t y f o r w a r d y o u r CV to:

David Franklin Par 4 (Irrigation) Ltd

Unit 18, Camphill Close, Dallamires Lane, Ripon, North Yorkshire HG4 ITT

Servewel l G r o u n d s Ltd require the following staff for 18 hole

Northants Golf Course

GOLF/SPORTS TURF MANAGER

Experience and/or qualifications in Golf Course Management/Maintenance essential,

particularly sand constructed greens. Management experience essential to

develop this part of the business.

HEAD GREENKEEPER

Enthusiastic and motivated with knowledge of turf culture and experience of sand

suspended greens. Would suit first assistant greenkeeper wishing to progress.

Both positions offer an attractive remuneration package and good prospects.

Apply with full CV to:

Mr M Lusty, S e r v e w e l l G r o u n d s L imi ted , Her r ia rd Park G a r d e n s , Herr ia rd ,

B a s i n g s t o k e , H a m p s h i r e R G 2 5 2 P L

Loch Lomond Golf Club

GREENKEEPERS REQUIRED

The 18-hole Loch Lomond Golf Club, designed by Tom Weiskopf, requires enthusiastic Greenkeepers to join their Golf Course maintenance team. Construction of the new 18-hole course designed by Jack Nicklaus is due to start in the spring of 1995.

Also

QUALIFIED GOLF COURSE MECHANIC

We are seeking an enthusiastic, well organised individual to oversee the equipment maintenance operation for our facility.

The successful applicant will play a key role in setting up and managing the following:

1. Planning and construction of the maintenance facility 2. Setting up preventative maintenance program for all machinery 3. Organising parts inventory 4. Evaluating all new equipment to be purchased by the Golf Club.

If you are interested in either position, please send CV to

Ken Siems, Loch Lomond Golf Club, Rossdhu House, Luss, by Alexandria, Dunbartonshire G83 8NT. Tel: 0436 860223

Rigby Taylor Ltd require a

TECHNICAL A growing force REPRESENTATIVE

in leisure to m a n a g e the Welsh terr i tory

Appl icants mus t be well organised and self mot ivated with a background in golf course or sports turf main tenance .

Basic salary plus commiss ion and usual c o m p a n y benefi ts will be of fered .

Appl icat ions and C V to: J o h n Holt, Rigby Taylor Ltd,

Gars ide Street, Bolton B L 1 4 A E

^ = B O U R N E = AREA SALES MANAGER HANTS/SURREY

Due to continued expansion of our Amenity Division we require an experienced salesperson to market our high quality range of sportsturf and amenity products in Hants/Surrey. We already have an established, comprehensive client base in Kent and Sussex and are the South East's distributor for top of the range products e.g. Dunlop Sports Sands and

Fendress. The ideal candidate will be experienced in selling into the amenity

marketplace particularly local councils, and a knowledge of amenity contracting would be an advantage. A good salary with commission and a company care are offered to the right person, preferably resident in the

sales area. To apply write enclosing a CV to: Dick Reid, Amenity Director, John Bourne & Co. Ltd., Head Office, Newenden, Cranbrook, Kent TN18 5QG

YOU SAY Send your letters to The Editor, Greenkeeper International, Aldwark Manor, Aldwark, Alne, York Y06 2NF or fax them on 0347 838864

Why practical knowledge beats the theories A month in hospital has enabled me to catch up on the last year's articles. Compaction seems to be dealt with monthly! Cure, aspirin for a headache, no cost effective workable answers. No one addresses the fundamental causes, or produces remedies, that are cost effective.

What has eventually really made me write to you is your March issue (Tom O'Brien at Royal Birk-dale) How he and so many very good men like him can manage to carry on with nothing else but con-tradictory theoretical advice is quite amazing.

The following practical thoughts you may find interesting, the con-dition of many playing surfaces, and new golf courses in particular, are of very poor quality. However I do believe that Performance Stan-dards have a vital role to play in specifying the construction of an installation.

My views are based on many years of practical experience creat-ing playing surfaces. Unfortunately too many projects are specified by agronomists with an abundance of theory but little understanding of the practical aspects of what is required. Agronomy and its nev-erending tentacles are the main factors that are responsible for standards, inadequate specifica-tions and, seemingly, a total mis-understanding of what grass really needs to grow and perform to high standards, when subject to severe use and extremes of weather.

Those who doubt this should look closely at the golf courses constructed over the last few years, and the condition of 92 clubs in the Football League. Almost with-out exception, there is water in excess, mud in abundance, com-paction and overall yearly deterio-ration. This is a worldwide problem. Mud is everywhere, whether we look at Australian Rules, Rugby, American Football or other sports, we have mud.

As I have said on many occa-sions before, today's agronomists are yesteryear's brilliant pupils, but many are so full of theory that they are still at the top of their theoreti-cal trees. The trouble is that the practicalities of what the industry fundamentally needs have not yet been written. So how can they learn, and the trees keep falling down.

The owner/customer. The patient who needs good practical,

cost-effective help and advice. The architect. The qualified golf

course architect. Most architects presume that they know; they pre-sume that their brief is to create. Wrong, very wrong. Theirs is not to alter our beautiful countryside. We have more than enough cham-pionship golf course blots on the landscape, half finished poor ideas - most like battlefields. We need membership courses and pay as you play courses, to be enjoyed by the majority with greens, tees and fairways that blend into the land-scape. More trees should be planted for the next generation and golf courses should be virtu-ally hidden, evolved from the landscape, not made.

Contractors. The reputable contractors know what to do, but they are supplied with a hotch-potch of information; a specifica-tion, part architect, part suppliers, part agronomist, all thinking that compatibility is something between them and their neigh-bours' wives. No thought is given to soils, sands etc which may or may not grow good grass. Most contractors know that with earth moving it's not what you do, but how you do it, and when. I have seen no specification mention that the operation depending on the soil moisture content etc.

Woe betide the contractor who says we must stop now because of poor ground conditions. No! Time is of the essence; it's too costly to stop. Earth moving - oh what a bore! Strip, stockpile, store and hope to God that when it comes

out it will be better than when it went in. No chance! Deprived of air, organic matter ignored, com-pacted beyond all recognition, it is often rolled into submission.

Soil for stockpiles should be pre-pared, (whoever heard of such an exercise?), have additives included and be resuscitated when it is replaced. There are ways to do this cost-effectively. Soil treated this way will make good fairways etc.

Now we come to the subject of worldwide debate.

Greens. Our friends the agronomists now come into full bloom, waxing lyrical but again nearly all completely ignoring compatibility. Their pet theories abound; like a party political broadcast, fact is submerged by theory. Percentages of sand/soil mixes vary like the daily rainfall forecasts. There is no thought that little grows easily in sand or that sand is inherently unstable. That sand is the main ingredient for concrete is never allowed to linger. After so many years we really need to ask some fundamental questions about what we are trying to achieve.

We wish to grow grass to be abused, to tolerate strange condi-tions, and to function effectively. Where and how do we start?

Many take the easy road, propri-etary topdress mixes or the like, which are basically a concoction of sands, silts and clays, or in the case of the pack leaders a mix of unsta-ble sands, and pray.

We need three basic ingredients

in our structures: 1 Air (rarely mentioned, often

totally ignored); 2 Moisture. 3 Nutrition and natural organic

matter. All three must be compatible,

easy to maintain and improve annually. The structure must by definition be permeable and sta-bilised for heavy traffic.

It is now possible to produce high quality, free draining, mud-free, non-compactable, stabilised rootzones for each and every sport wishing to use natural grass inten-sively. I know, I have done this and am doing it cost-effectively. After two decades it still works.

Finally, our overworked and under-informed greenkeepers and groundsmen. Let education con-centrate on the structures they have to work with. Everything else is of little import if the structures are inadequate.

It is now possible to restructure surface soils cost-effectively. Sur-face soil, for those still in doubt, is the area below the grass that varies from 150 mm (6in) to 300 mm (12in) in depth. That wonderful area produced by poor specifica-tions; the area for thatch, black layer and various degrees of com-paction.

Our ultimate aim is to ensure that this layer performs to its best ability and the starting point to achieve this aim is to set out the performance standards that we want to attain, not in isolation, but as a basis from which we can draw up our construction specifications. Dixie Thompson, Chester Moor, Co Durham

Message for all A word of warning to fellow green-keepers: if ever you are tempted to leave off any safety equipment - it may be uncomfortable on a hot day, for example - my advice is don't!

My safety boots saved me from losing my foot in an accident. Don't think the unexpected won't happen to you.

My thanks to Richard Whyman and all at Devon and Cornwall sec-tion for the basket of fruit sent to my hospital bed, the phone call from BIGGA HQ and the good wishes from everyone. Peter Stringer, Isle of Scilly Golf Club

South Turf was excellent, but... What a show! I refer of course to South Turf. Can I congratu-late the British and International Golf Greenkeepers Association's South East section on an excel-lent exhibition.

Gem Professional had a won-derful show and met many new customers. David Wood and the team were exceptionally helpful and the weather they provided was second to none. I hope this is to become an annual event and ensure you of our support in the future. Sadly I have two complaints, neither aimed at BIGGA, that I feel are worthy of mention.

Firstly, I would question the quality of Southern pork pies (negotiations are under way to obtain licence to provide Lan-cashire pies next year) and, sec-ondly, I must protest at Ron Jobson's inhospitable approach when asked for the loan of his hat during the heat of the after-noon! (Who said this was a friendly industry?)

In conclusion my thanks again to the BIGGA and in particular David Wood and his team for an excellent, well run exhibition. AW Hardie, sales manager, Gem Professional, Oswaldtwistle

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