Last week I was busy undertaking some mystery shops for Green Flag Awards, both in Staffordshire and along the Wales / England borders of Powys and North Shropshire. As a Green Flag judge, we undertake a few mystery shop visits…
The organisers of the GroundsFest exhibition that took place last week at the Stoneleigh show ground have now released the attendance figures for 2026. In an official statement they say, “A total of 10,664 unique visitors attended the fourth edition…
PICTURED ABOVE: Pete McArthur, director of Strathbogie Scotland and HRN Group’s groundcare sales director, Wilson Morrison Dealership Strathbogie Scotland, with support from Redexim and its Scottish dealer partner HRN Group, is launching a specialist machinery hire service for golf courses and…
STIGA’s partnership with England Rugby recently provided a closer look at the technology and infrastructure beneath the newly renovated Allianz Stadium playing surface. The new natural-grass rugby pitch at Allianz Stadium has been built with a substantial amount of infrastructure…
BIGGA is launching a new women’s network to help women working across the golf and turf industries build confidence, develop professional relationships and support one another throughout their careers. The BIGGA Elevates Women’s Network will begin with a five-session pilot…
The nine-person gardens and grounds team at Worcester College, University of Oxford, has been trialling STIHL’s new ALLPRO battery system across its approximately 11-hectare site. The grounds include sports pitches, formal lawns, topiary and meadows, creating a wide range of…
Ferndown Golf Club in Dorset has added a Jacobsen Eclipse 360 ELiTE greens mower, supplied by dealer Wildwood Machinery. Course manager Danny Murray said the club had not been actively looking for a replacement greens mower but was interested in…
I could not help but notice the phenomenal amount of robotic, remote-controlled and autonomous mowers and line markers that were on show, at GroundsFest recently. Some prime examples included: Segway Navimow who now have a substantially broader robotic-mower range than…
Show time again! September signals the start of our autumn and winter industry trade shows, with GroundsFest one of the first on the calendar – to be followed later by SALTEX and BTME. Therefore, last week I and my colleagues…
England Golf, BIGGA and the Golf Club Management Association are urging every golf club to contribute to a major national study that they say will establish the most detailed picture yet of water use and resilience across the golf sector.…