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Semillas Fito – results for Bermuda Riviera

Semillas Fito is proud to announce the excellent results obtained in the conversion made of Golf Tolcinasco in Milano(Italy) from cool season grasses to Bermuda Riviera.

This outstanding Bermuda grass seeded variety has been the main choice for tees, fairways and rough in many golf courses in the Mediterranean basin because of the excellent performance, overall quality, cold tolerance, disease tolerance and drought and stress resistance.

Golf Tolcinasco is in the North of Italy proving that the variety can be used successfully in the heart of Europe when the purposes are input savings, keeping the best playability and quality.

Riviera is the most important Bermuda grass seeded variety used in Golf courses along the Mediterranean.

Semillas Fito also announces the release of 2015 Turfgrass Catalogue with new varieties such a Festuca arundinacea variety Golden Gate and Lolium perenne variety Rinovo.

For more information go to www.semillasfito.com

AHA de Man in partnership with The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews

AHA de Man has started a partnership with the Greenkeeping Team of The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews.

The purpose of this partnership is the exchange of knowledge between AHA de Man and St. Andrews. As a first step, Remy de Milde (Head Greenkeeper at De Hooge Rotterdamsche Golf Course) and Milan den Dikken (Bentwoud Golf Course) went to Scotland at the beginning of October to work for a month with the greenkeeping team at The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews. For the first three weeks, Remy and Milan worked mainly on the Old Course and New Course under the guidance of Gordon Moir (‘Director of Greenkeeping’), but also worked at times on the Jubilee Course. During the last week, they worked together on the Castle Course.

This work placement month forms part of an exchange programme that was recently started between St. Andrews and AHA de Man. Next year will be the turn of several greenkeepers from Scotland to come and work on a course that AHA de Man maintains. Their experience will be to keep an 18-hole course in top condition with a small and compact team, something which Gordon Moir describes as a very instructive opportunity.

For more information go to www.ahademan.com

Jackin Seed – New creeping bentgrass cultivar

Ignite is a brand new state-of-the-art creeping bentgrass cultivar currently used at a number of golf courses worldwide. Ignite is receiving excellent reviews under multi-state putting green trials in the United States.

Ignite is the OECD name for V8 and is a hybrid between two pre-existing bent varieties, selected specifically for:

• Close-cut tolerance for a high quality smooth putting surface
• Dollar spot disease resistance to greatly reduce the quantity of fungicide required
• One of the finest leaf textures of any creeping bentgrass with medium dark green colour
• Ranked #1 most dense bentgrass available today according to NTEP report
• Greens up in the spring earlier than Penncross for additional weeks of golf play and colour persists well into autumn with better than average frost tolerance
• Adapts well to a wide range of putting green mowing heights, as low as 2.5 mm with smooth recovery from aerification

For more information on Ignite (V8) or management guidelines, please visit www.jacklin.com

Profile Products supplies Flexterra HP-FGM to Fureso GolfKlub in Denmark

The Fureso GolfKlub in Denmark is seeing plenty signs of life – at least on two-thirds of the course. The second phase of a three-phase renovation was recently grassed, thanks in part to Flexterra HP-FGM from Profile Products.

Design firm MacKenzie Ebert selected Flexterra HP-FGM, a high-performing hydraulic mulch, for the project due to its proven success in establishing vegetation and preventing erosion on severe slopes. The Fureso GolfKlub features a number of environmentally-sensitive areas, including several water features, all of which had to be protected from soil erosion and sediment loss.

The project, which began in 2013, will be completed in 2015 ahead of the course re-opening.

The hydraulic seeding was done by Contractor John Greasely Ltd over five hectares on the course, with Flexterra used at a rate of up to a rate of 340g per m2 on the critical areas. Photos show the successful grow-in just 32 days after application.

For more information go to www.profileproducts.com

Three Nelson&Vecchio courses to open in 2015

2014 has been a busy year for David Nelson’s project teams with three exciting course opening scheduled for summer 2015.

First to open will be Pärnu Bay Golf Links in Estonia – one of the most highly-anticipated European golf course openings of 2015 – with the opening scheduled for early June. The Lassi Pekka Tilander designed course sits on 80 hectares of pure sand just meters from the Baltic Sea.

Next up will be the nine-hole extension at Langesø Golf Club in Denmark. The picturesque woodland course will offer outstanding golf as it becomes the latest addition to the impressive portfolio of courses designed by Philip Spogárd. Course owner Hans D.C Berner will strike the first golf ball in the middle of June.

The third course to open will be Golf Club Föhr in Germany. The twelve new holes designed by Christian Althaus and shaped by Mick McShane will open on the 13th of June and will feature some of the most dramatic bunkering ever built, making the course a must-see destination for golf architecture fans.

For more information go to www.nelsonvecchio.com

Blinder lining up for a busy winter

With the Autumn/Winter seasons upon us, Blinder Bunker Liner & Eco Path installations are well underway.

UK-based Profusion Environmental are delighted to be working with existing customers on their bunker renovation works as well as assisting new contacts around Europe in their pursuit for problem-free bunkers.

Completed installations to date this season have seen a second phase of works at Burhill Golf Club, St George’s Hill Golf Club and Bearwood Lakes Golf Club.

New installations include Boyce Hill Golf Club, Lancaster Golf Club, Hallamshire Golf Club & Surbiton Golf Club.

The popularity of the Blinder system continues to grow as course managers extol its many benefits. USA licence holder Alan Fitzgerald completed the installation training process for Blinder products this autumn and returned to the states equipped with the knowledge and experience needed to ensure Blinder is a success across the Atlantic.

Beware of imitations. A rubber crumb bunker liner is only the tried, tested and original Blinder if it is supplied and installed by Profusion, the official approved licence holders.

For further information visit www.theblinder.com or www.profusion-enviro.com

Everris

For more information go to www.everris.com