Kevin Munt Golf Consultant

Weather to spray or not to spray that is the question

BTME Harrogate Product Review

I passed Weather for Golf’s stand with a casual glance over my shoulder, “are you interested in the weather sir” asked the booth’s occupier. “I’m British aren’t I “ I joked. “Then you will be” came the retort.

“I don’t have much time for your lot as you let me down in 1987 during the Suntory World Match-play at The Wentworth Club” Me bare a grudge, no. I though I would make this a tough sell. “I think you will find that was the BBC’s fault sir”. I was confused, so I got a lesson in weather forecasting for golf courses and the role of the Met Office. 

How green is your mower?

BTME Harrogate Product Review

Metallic orange is the new green, take a close look at it (left click on the pic). It doesn’t have a name other than Actioneco, which I think is the company name and not the machine name, a marketing faux pas if ever I saw one. There is however no denying that it makes you look, I am sure many of the visitors to BTME said what **** is that.

STRI tools for Putting Green surface trueness and firmness

BTME Harrogate Product Review

How often have you said that your greens were both firm and true? How do you quantify these statements, what are the scientific measurements that you use to back up these statements?

Well of course you don’t have any. You know because you have spent the past number of years gaining the art, (knowledge and skills) to provide your club with these key elements that make good greens into great surfaces.

The R&A’s new Benchmarking service

BTME Harrogate product review

So what is the R&A’s benchmarking service? Basically it is a simple way of logging a Course Manager’s key
operational data for his club so that they can then monitor resource inputs
such as chemicals, irrigation, machinery usage and labour for their maintained surfaces.

This data is then processed and a ‘benchmark’ graph line is produced that can be used to judge year-on-year trends. This benchmark can also be judged, anonymously, against national average figures for all golf clubs registered with the system.