Turfgrass appoints new Senior Agronomy Consultant
(Wicklow, Ireland) 4th August 2017. Turfgrass, the specialist golf course project management and agronomy company, are pleased to announce its recent appointment of Trevor Norris as Senior Agronomy Consultant. Trevor will be working alongside the Director of Agronomy, Julian Mooney and supporting the Managing Director, John Clarkin on numerous Golf projects across the company’s client portfolio.
Braemar Golf have teamed up with the industry leading Turfgrass, to assist Golf Club de LaLargue with their vision to elevate their golf course to one of the best conditioned and presented in their region of France and Switzerland.
Golf Club de LaLargue, a Swiss Club but located in the Alsace region of France, have recently appointed a new General Manager, Graham Stewart, and developed a strategic business plan to develop and enhance the club into one of the top clubs in the region and the country. A major part of this is to review and improve the condition and presentation of the golf course.
Golf Course Architect Christian Lundin (left) with Henrik Stenson
Last summer, Stenson, the Champion Golfer of the Year and winner of the Race to Dubai 2016, announced the beginning of a new era when he formed his own golf course design firm and at the same time signed his first contract in the design business to do a major redesign of Österåker Golf Club outside Stockholm, Sweden.
Today marks the launch of DPSM Consultants, a new specialist executive search company working exclusively within the EMEA golf industry and focused on senior appointments across the resort, club, equipment and machinery, manufacturing, apparel and golf travel sectors. Continue reading
The Golf Club de Genève project has taken off with phase I under way, and Mother Nature was very kind to us up until the beginning of December with only 3 rainy days since the start of works making it one of the driest Autumn months on record. Continue reading
Vidauban has now completed its full restoration of the course. The greens have improved dramatically with the percentage of bentgrass now at about 80%. This was helped by a record hot summer with more than 50 days in a row of over 35 degrees Celsius. This, however, did not help with the seeding of the Fescue and MJ Abbott returned in October to finish the seeding. Continue reading
The 2015 Solheim Cup will be remembered for many reasons both sporting and otherwise but from a turf management standpoint none more so than the weather which constantly threatened the tournament.
To coincide with our recent restructure and rebrand, Turfgrass has launched a new website to demonstrate our company’s evolution.
The renovation of Golf Club de Genève is about to get underway. We very much look forward to commencing our Project Management role, working very closely with the team from Golf Club de Genève including Charles Charmot, Head Greenkeeper and François Lautens, Director. Continue reading
With less than two weeks before the first competitive round, Golf Club St. Leon-Rot is nearing championship condition.
Preparations for The 2015 Solheim Cup commenced more than 3 years ago, with the programme of works currently culminating in the delivery of a world class golf course. Architectural improvements were completed last autumn when European Golf Design were appointed to redesign hole 18 and make adjustments to 13. The brief presented to Jeremy Slessor and Dave Sampson was to present strategic playing options for Solheim Cup and the membership of Golf Club St. Leon-Rot thereafter. Continue reading
