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March 2020
TOP GRASS Prestigious North Yorkshire club has invested in new set of mowers ahead of hectic schedule
Ganton geared up for busy spell GANTON GOLF CLUB has in invested in a new set of mowers in preparation for a busy couple of years that will see the North Yorkshire club host a series of high-profile events. One of the world’s top 80 courses, Ganton ranks among the very best of Britain’s inland courses and has staged many amateur and professional tourna-
ments, including the Walker Cup in 2003 – so joining Royal Birkdale, The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers at Muirfield and Royal Lytham & St Annes as one of only four venues to have also staged the Curtis Cup and Ryder Cup matches. Ganton will also be holding an England v France international in
May this year and is scheduled to host the English Men’s Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship for the Brabazon Trophy and also the R&A Women’s and Girls’ Home Internationals in 2021. The sandy, gently undulating site was Ganton Golf Club’s greenkeeping team, left to right: Tom Todd, deputy head greenkeeper once a North Sea inlet, Mathew Wormald, head greenkeeper Andrew West, Ray Johnson, Adam Mayren, so it has all the characAndrew Jennett, Jonathan Priestley and Ben Sixsmith teristics of both a links and a heathland course. encouraged us to consider following hectares of aprons and collars altogethAnother striking feature is over 100 Royal Birkdale’s example, noting er, which really can’t be managed with bunkers, some huge in size. improvements to the course presentatriples,” Andrew explains. Head greenkeeper Andrew West tion and finish and complimenting the “But with quite a low height of cut says he has always had a vision of contribution John Deere’s 8000AE required at 7mm on these areas during opening up more areas of the course to PrecisionCut fairway mower had made the playing season, this was proving give it more of a links feel, and he is there.” difficult to achieve with our previous now beginning to achieve this more Ganton’s new hybrid mower fleet five-gang mowers and we were always effectively since the club invested in a now includes two 8000AEs as well as struggling to hold the cuts. new set of John Deere hybrid electric two 2500E triplex and three 220E walk“However, I always felt we could E-Cut mowers. These were supplied behind greens mowers. These were do this job better and in a reasonable by dealer F G Adamson & Son on a joined by a 4049R compact tractor with time frame with the right machine, so five-year finance lease deal with annufront loader, two HPX diesel and two we spoke to our course consultant al repayments from John Deere TE electric Gator utility vehicles, as Gordon Irvine and he really influenced Financial. well as a Charterhouse Verti-Drain our thinking. Both he and the STRI’s “We’ve got some very challenging 7416 aerator and top dresser. head of agronomy Alistair Beggs undulations here and around two Got a story that needs telling in next month’s Yorkshire Golfer? Send your story and photos to mike@yorkshire-golfer.com
