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North Yorkshire course has invested in an schedule for the former Ryder Cup venue
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.
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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 tournaments, 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 once a North Sea inlet, so it has all the characteristics of both a links Ganton Golf Club’s greenkeeping team, left to right: Tom Todd, deputy head greenkeeper Mathew Wormald, head greenkeeper Andrew West, Ray Johnson, Adam Mayren, Andrew Jennett, Jonathan Priestley and Ben Sixsmith and a heathland course. Another striking feature is over 100 hectares of aprons and collars altogethencouraged us to consider following bunkers, some huge in size. er, which really can’t be managed with Royal Birkdale’s example, noting
Head greenkeeper Andrew West triples,” Andrew explains. improvements to the course presentasays he has always had a vision of “But with quite a low height of cut tion and finish and complimenting the opening up more areas of the course to required at 7mm on these areas during contribution John Deere’s 8000AE give it more of a links feel, and he is the playing season, this was proving PrecisionCut fairway mower had made now beginning to achieve this more difficult to achieve with our previous there.” effectively since the club invested in a five-gang mowers and we were always Ganton’s new hybrid mower fleet new set of John Deere hybrid electric struggling to hold the cuts. now includes two 8000AEs as well as E-Cut mowers. These were supplied “However, I always felt we could two 2500E triplex and three 220E walkby dealer F G Adamson & Son on a do this job better and in a reasonable behind greens mowers. These were five-year finance lease deal with annutime frame with the right machine, so joined by a 4049R compact tractor with al repayments from John Deere we spoke to our course consultant front loader, two HPX diesel and two Financial. Gordon Irvine and he really influenced TE electric Gator utility vehicles, as
“We’ve got some very challenging our thinking. Both he and the STRI’s well as a Charterhouse Verti-Drain undulations here and around two head of agronomy Alistair Beggs 7416 aerator and top dresser.
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March 2020
Morris earns partial LET playing rights
A TOP-60 place in the Ladies European Tour Qualifying School earned Woodsome Hall’s Rochelle Morris partial playing rights for the 2020 season.
Morris had to contend with both strong winds that uprooted trees at La Manga and illness, but can now look forward to playing up to 11 events on the LET as well as 6 LET Access Series tournaments.
She said: “It’s the worst week on the golfing calendar, even if you gain full playing rights, an emotional rollercoaster and incredibly draining five rounds of golf under the most pressure to determine which events you will play in the coming season.
“My prep running up to the week wasn’t fantastic as I had a cold and a bad chest, so a lot of short and productive practice had to be done with lots of rest, sleep, Vick and paracetamol! YORKSHIRE Union of Golf Clubs’ secretary Jonathan Plaxton is hoping for a strong attendance by clubs at the Annual Meeting of the Council, which will be held at Pannal Golf Club on Wednesday March 18 and includes two free seminars.
The meeting starts with coffee being served at 9.30 am before the R&A’s senior agronomist Adam Newton delivers his speech on the impact of climate change, pesticide regulations and resource constraints on golf course management.
This will be followed at 11.15am by a seminar on the important initiative of Safe Golf by Will Evans, who is Head of Delivery for England Golf.
Clubs may send delegates to the Council meeting at least one of whom should be either a member of the club committee or the club secretary/manager. GIRLS GOLF ROCKS is back with a bang thanks to an unprecedented number of club applications for the 2020 programme. Four clubs in Yorkshire – Hessle, Abbeydale, Filey and Sand Moor – have already been selected to deliver the programme with more to be announced.
Up to 200 clubs across the country will be tasked with staging two six-week coaching sessions for beginner girls predominantly, but not exclusively, in the 7-14 age bracket.
To receive notice of when sessions are available to book That setback wasn’t going to stop me or put a dampener on the week though.
“I made the top 60 so overall it was not a bad week at La Manga. My game is so much better than last year, which is the most encouraging thing. I’m hitting the ball further; my ball striking is better and mentally I am feeling better under pressure. All good stuff going in to the 2020 season.”
In association with Underpin Sports, she will be hosting an ‘Evening with Rochelle Morris’ at the Woodman Inn at Thunderbridge, Kirkburton on March 12 (6.00pm).
“I really hope as many people as possible can join us on the evening,” she said.
“The night will include a Q&A with myself, tips and advice for your own golf game and we will also cover different
YUGC inviting clubs to annual meeting at Pannal
topics such as the mental and
Those attending both the seminars and the afternoon Council Meeting are invited to be guests of the Yorkshire Union of Golf Clubs at a buffet lunch from 12.30pm before the Council meeting begins at 2.00pm.
Plaxton said: “I’m keen to engage directly with all clubs in Yorkshire and as we had 15 more clubs attend last year compared to 2018 and to make sure we can accommodate everybody, I’m asking all attendees to confirm their plans with me ahead of the meeting and to indicate morning/afternoon or all day.”
He can be contacted by email – secretary@yugc.co.uk –and clubs are asked to confirm names and the golf club, or by telephone on 01904 468442 or 07484 730349.
Further details are available
Rocking back with interest
at www.yugc.co.uk. online, register your email address at girlsgolfrocks@englandgolf.org. Four greenkeepers from Yorkshire have been named in the volunteer support team to assist with course maintenance during the Open Championship at Royal St George’s in July.
James Dawson from Oulton Hall, Ryan Fiander of Lees Hall GC, Scott Thomson from Wetherby GC and Rotherham’s Jeremy Ward will be given unprecedented access to golf’s greatest championship by supporting every match with bunker-raking duties. physical sides of the game, plus an insight into life on Tour
“It’s free to attend and I will be talking to you about my amateur and professional career so you will also gain tips and advice from myself and Duncan McCarthy, my performance coach, on how to improve your own golf game.
“The main goal of the evening is to raise funds for my upcoming season on Tour. The cost of a season is around £20,000 and this is without giving myself a wage. I work two jobs on top of practice and training to try and help towards these costs and unfortunately I missed a few tournaments last year purely down to me not being able to afford the trip.
“If you intend on coming then please RSVP to the event by sending me a quick email –Roch_Morris@hotmail.co.uk –so we have an idea of numbers on the night.”
Quinta do Lago’s new Yorkshire-born golf course superintendent Mark Tupling Tupling is in new role on the Algarve
MARK TUPLING, Quinta do Lago’s new Yorkshire-born golf course superintendent, has switched to the Algarve as he targets an environmentally responsible approach to the new role.
After nine years as agronomy manager at Jumeirah Golf Estates in Dubai –where the Earth Course hosts the European Tour’s season-ending DP World Tour Championship –Tupling is determined to focus his efforts on sustainability to maintain Quinta do Lago’s position as one of Europe’s leading resorts. Rockliffe Hall has been named in two leading magazines’ Top Golf Resort rankings.
National Club Golfer has featured Rockliffe in its Top 10 UK Golf Resorts, alongside Gleneagles and The Belfry, and it ranked 37th in Golf World’s Top 100 UK Golf Resorts.
