Multi Sport Complex Manager at Phoenix GC ⛳️ 🇬🇧, HNC Golf course management. Quantitative data geek 📈📉. Dad to Ronnie & Rory. Opinions not of my club
Rotherham
Joined March 2012
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One thing about a broken irrigation system all year and dry weather. I don’t think the roots have had much choice but to search down aeration holes.
#greenkeeping
#turflife
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⛳️European golfing royalty mixes with budding pros and amateurs at the final qualifier for next month's @TheOpen
Piece with @OlisullivanGolf of @PhoenixGolfClub who is hoping to make it third time lucky at Dundonald Links tomorrow ⬇️
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Driest spring since the war 🌵 drought conditions with scorching temperatures end of June 🥵
Greenkeepers will be doing all they can to keep surfaces alive, battling the challenges Mother Nature throws at them🔥
Please support your staff & remain patient
@MonmouthshireGC
Thanks for great review No2 glad you enjoyed. Been a battle with the irrigation so far but I knew the great British summer would turn up eventually ☔️ 😂
No.2 Having A Knock With The Shadow @StewartGolf At @PhoenixGolfClub See Watt Me old pal @marks_sm1th been Doing With The place Watt ☺️👌 #Golf @BIGGALtd #golfcourse
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No automation on the irrigation for weeks now. Not doing too bad the #Ateam keeping the greens ticking over through the day and regular sprays switching between f42 and tricure with compost teas. Fixed soon hopefully as nothing tipped for while @PhoenixGolfClub ☔️ 🙏
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When a golfer tells you one week the course is perfect, but the following week you have ruined it! A wise man once said: “perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence”. Leave us Turfies to it, we’ve got good hands! 🤘⛳️🤘 #greenkeeper
Influxer doing its job on the misty drizzle and dew. @GBRTechAmenity @Nathan_Scarff90
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Shout out to all greekeepers in the area! Wakefield Golf Club shed’s broken into last night, new Kubota tractor trailer taken and various other machines damaged.
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Timeline... 10th November 2017
I was surprised how clean and virtually free of casting 🐛
Much more difficult today to achieve this with little chemical control 🤔
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So around 5 years ago we as a club made the decision to stop all warmups/training from taking place on the pitch
This decision meant I could focus more on improving the pitch rather than just repairing the pitch
👇Small changes can make a big difference⚽️🌱👌
#Grassroots
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Don’t forget guys it’s Thank a Greenkeeper Day! If you see your Turfies out on your course get over there and give them a pat on the back for another solid season on the course!
Share this post to your story and spread the word about #thankagreenkeeper 🤘⛳️🤘 #greenkeeper
#Clipvol over the weekend has gone mental. Going to need a bigger jug 😂. Hopefully no more misty drizzle so disease pressure should drop a little 🙏
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That time of year where we knock down the ecology roughs @PhoenixGolfClub. Should keep them improving year on year. Will also free our collector up ready for the leaf season that’s just starting 🌾 🍁
These idiots are not there for the right reasons, just a thieving loot spree. Protest right and for the right reasons or stay at home ffs 😥.
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Please have patience this morning @PhoenixGolfClub. Sand, seed, procore and sarrel. Last one for a month at least with golf calendar through august. Please pick up if machines are on the green and expect sand on top until we get round with the brush,Can’t be everywhere 🐙 😂 ⛳️
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As it’s the final round of #TheOpen in Royal Troon, Scotland today, here’s the incomparable Robin Williams discussing how golf was invented in Scotland. Genius. ⛳️ 🏴
I’m not the first to say it on this platform…but how green is this July. Lots of growth after the rains that’s for sure.
A little short staffed most weeks for while now and our 11 pitches are now being marked every week so lads and artisans doing amazing. #Ateam #greenkeeping
