GreenTek Solutions on the ball for Royal Liverpool

GreenTek Solutions Limited has secured an agreement with Royal Liverpool Golf Club to supply equipment to prepare for the 151st Open Championship this summer. This is the 13th time the Hoylake course has hosted the championship and the team know what it takes to maintain their greens’ performance for the best players in the world.

James Bledge, Course Manager at Royal Liverpool Golf Club has used GreenTek products over the years and have always been extremely impressed with the results. “When looking for a supplier who could help create perfect greens in the run up to such an important and prestigious event as the Open Championship, GreenTek was an obvious choice.”

RLGC has chosen the Dyna-Seeder and Dyna-Corer from the Dynamics turf care range and Micro-Groomer, the newest addition to GreenTek’s Thatch-Away greens care system.

All three pieces of equipment can be quickly attached to a triplex mower, enabling overseeding, micro-coring and grooming operations on all 18 greens to be completed in just a few hours. The precision of these machines is what sets them apart. Dyna-Seeder accurately meters seed into thousands of consistent holes for maximum germination. Whilst the coring depth can be precisely adjusted down to 25mm with the Dyna-Corer.

But it is the MicroGroomer that takes greens to the next level of refinement. Laserengineered blades with over 2,000 extra fine tungsten tips deliver approximately 39,000 surgically precise microcuts per square metre. This latest development in turf improvement technology works the upper leaf area to deliver faster and truer putting surfaces.

The agreement is the latest endorsement of the quality of GreenTek’s equipment – with 90 out of the UK’s top 100 courses currently using the company’s machines.

“We’re extremely proud to have been chosen by Royal Liverpool Golf Club in this way,” said Ian Ellis, GreenTek Managing Director.

“It’s a very important year for the club hosting the Open Championship and the fact that they’ve come to us is a clear endorsement of the quality of our machinery and the trust they can place in us to deliver.”

$1m of kit to help Turkey earthquake tragedy

Doosan Bobcat will provide equipment worth around $1 million for relief and recovery activities in the earthquakestricken areas of Turkey. Construction equipment will be promptly delivered through Doosan Bobcat’s dealer network to be of practical help in lifesaving activities in affected areas and to help restore critical infrastructure such as collapsed buildings and roads. The equipment being supplied includes skid-steer loaders and excavators to remove and clean debris, and portable generators and lighting towers to be used at sites with power supply issues. By providing equipment that can be used immediately for relief and recovery efforts, Doosan Bobcat hopes to help residents of the affected areas in Turkey to begin to recover their daily lives as soon as possible. The donation will be financed in cooperation with Doosan Bobcat’s mother company, Doosan Group, which has supported previous major disasters with equipment and donations, such as hurricanes and earthquakes in the U.S., China, Haiti, Japan and Nepal over the past 20-plus years.