Full review of the 2011 GCMA conference 1
The GCMA’s captain, John Dinsdale, and chief executive, Keith Lloyd, opened the event by talking about the importance of sharing ideas.
The GCMA’s captain, John Dinsdale, and chief executive, Keith Lloyd, opened the event by talking about the importance of sharing ideas.
The Equality Act 2010 is the single largest piece of anti-discrimination legislation to be created in the UK.
How do you prolong the life of turf maintenance machinery?
A golf club in Mansfield has written to its local council to oppose the building of a major new golf venue in the area.
A ball lies in a rabbit scrape and is under a tree. A free swing of the club is possible to send the ball at 90 degrees to the left of the tree, but there is no direct line to the target.
Several golf courses in the UK suffered from the exceptionally dry spring that broke so many records for the lack of rainfall.
W Allan Osborne is the former secretary of Bathgate Golf Club.
Here we will review three frequently asked questions pertaining to bunkers.
Wetland features are found on many golf courses in Britain, and can be natural or man-made.
Once upon a time there was a handicap system. It was brutal, but effective.
This membership allows juniors to have unlimited golf at every De Vere venue throughout the UK.
For years now, the notion of golf clubs providing their members and visitors with the prospect of booking their tee times online has been a topic bubbling away under managers’ and members’ surfaces.
A joint undertaking has been entered into by the National Golf Clubs’ Advisory Association and the English Golf Union to consider the impact of disability legislation on golf clubs and with specific reference to the use of motorised ride on buggies.
Nearly all businesses have the need to borrow funds from time to time. In the case of golf clubs, the amount of finance required can be very significant (particularly if the club is considering a capital project such as redeveloping a clubhouse).
Jonathan Wall, an assistant greenkeeper at the Royal Hong Kong Golf Club, has won Myerscough College’s best student award.
Loch Lomond Golf Club course superintendent David Cole and his greens’ staff use a range of green machinery on the course, which also boasts some enviable green credentials.
The Equality Act applies to all golf clubs in England, Scotland and Wales.
An expelled member of Dullatur Golf Club in Scotland has been reinstated by one of the most senior judges in the country.
All the questions are taken from the 2009 GCMA Conference. The answers are still relevant today Question: The wording accompanying the draft Rateable Value for 2010 appears to indicate that the Valuation Office (VO) will be sympathetic to appeals, is
Ardglass Golf Club has been named as Ireland’s ‘Links Golf Course of the Year 2011’ following a 20 per cent increase in business.
I’m afraid I can see no benefit for our clubs in golf becoming an Olympic sport.
Loch Lomond Golf Club in Scotland has won the ‘Overall Achievement Award’ at the STRI’s Golf Environment Awards 2011.
St Andrews Links has been awarded the Golf Environment Organisation (GEO) Certified™ eco-label in recognition of its sustainability commitment and achievements.
Someone once referred to me as a ‘control freak’. Now whilst I readily admit to being the latter I dearly would like to claim to being in the former state!
Many reach positions of head greenkeeper / course manager through hard work, reliability and the ability to organise a team to carry out the required turf maintenance.
A golf club manager who has found himself at the centre of a storm over an email he sent to an army colonel over disabled access at his golf club has said he was joking.