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NEWSARCHIVES 2008 juni april maart februari januari 2001 juni 2000 januari LATEST NEWS Sinds 1990 worden in Greenkeeper tal van onderwerpen besproken die de moeite van nalezen zeker waard zijn. Via deze pagina kunt u razendsnel teruglezen welke artikelen over een bepaald onderwerp gepubliceerd zijn. U kunt ook artikelen zoeken. WHICH SPECIES ARISAEMA  1-6-2008 Which species Arisaema » read more GREENKEEPER EU  10-4-2008 Here you find the first issue of GREENKEEPER.EU. GREENKEEPER.EU contains articles by the most respected greenkeepers, scientists and golf course consultants on green and golfcourse management. They will share with you the latest insights on greenkeeping in a practical and accessible way. » read more IT IS LONELY AT THE TOP  9-4-2008 Managing a champions course like Gut Kaden is not a 9 to 5 job. There are various ways in which you can perform as a greenkeeper. You can arrange that your members and guests that play on your course can play their game under optimal conditions, or you can go for the absolute top. In fact the management all the year round then is focused on presenting an absolute top course to a select group of top golfers for a couple of days. The professional magazine Greenkeeper interviews the brand new head greenkeeper Sebastian Schultz of the Hamburg golf course Gut Kaden. » read more THE GOLF COURSE AND THE PLAYERS ALWAYS COME FIRST  8-4-2008 Interview with Bob Hargreaves, head greenkeeper at Haus Treudelberg, Hamburg. Everywhere exist huge differences in the number of played rounds. Still in many cases courses with busy traffic look very good. Craftsmanship and consistent management seem to be the key words. Professional magazine Greenkeeper visits Bob Hargreaves of Haus Treudelberg, a golf course belonging to hotel Treudelberg near Hamburg. » read more PROMISING, BUT LITTLE ATTENTION TO DETAIL  7-4-2008 Wittenbeck decides for fescue. As a designer of a new golf course you have to deal with a huge dilemma. Construction costs money. Therefore as a proprietor you will try to open the course as soon as possible in order to recover at least a part of the costs. Then there is always the danger that you open too fast. At a moment that the desired quality has not been obtained yet opening only leads to bad publicity. Greenkeeper EU went to Wittenbeck Golf in the Eastern German village with the same name on the Baltic Sea near Schwerin. » read more PENN A4 DOES NOT SOLVE ALL GREENKEEPER’S PROBLEMS  6-4-2008 Udo Rohbeck of Winston Golf in East-Germany goes his own way. When the Iron Curtain fell in 1989there were only a few golf courses in East-Germany. With the growth of prosperity and tourism a very few additional courses were constructed in the thinly populated eastern part of Germany. Up till today the majority of the courses are located in the western part. Especially as a result of the growth of tourism and the attractive prices of land and labor, some migration to the East has developed in the recent years. Professional magazine Greenkeeper pays a visit to Winston Golf and talks to head greenkeeper Udo Rohbeck. » read more TREES AND GOLF DO MIX!  5-4-2008 Lischka turns the Hamburg woodcourse Falkenstein into a visual and golftechnical showpiece. What happens if you visit a golf course with 8 colleague greenkeepers? Mostly you get a whole lot of well meant advice. But not if the course you visit is called Falkenstein near Hamburg. The course the GREENKEEPERS EU delegation found there astonished 8 cocky greenkee¬pers. The most important questions: ‘How do you manage to get such a difficult course in tip-top condition with only seven men and is the old saying among golf architects ‘golf and trees do not mix’ really based on the truth? » read more THE ROLE OF THE BUNKER IN GOLF COURSE DESIGN  4-4-2008 Improving Bunkers – Renovation, Restoration or Redesign? From the early days of golf, the sand bunker has been one of the defining hazards which the golfer has had to avoid in order to reach the green. On the early links courses the first bunkers emerged in areas of exposed sand to form an interesting and penalizing hazard. The severity of the bunker affected the playability of the ball – giving the bunker a significant function and role in the strategy of the golf hole. The early links bunkers, as we see them on the British links, were later on formalized and given a stabilising, revetted edge. Since the end of the 1800s many types of bunkers have emerged – from small sand traps to gigantic ‘American’ style bunkers. » read more PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS USED IN TURFGRASS MANAGEMENT  3-4-2008 Classification and user guide for PGR’s. Plant growth regulators (PGR’s) are an organic compound, natural or synthetic, that when present or applied in small amounts results in a change in plant growth and development. They are increasingly being used on golf courses to suppress seedheads and vegative growth of desirable turfgrasses, enhance turfgrass quality and manage Poa annua growth and development. Depending upon the turfgrass and situa¬tion, PGR’s may reduce mowing costs, prevent scalping, increase turf density and decrease the need to mow steep slopes. PGR’s were initially developed to slow turf growth and suppress seedheads in low maintenance areas such as highway roadsides, airports and golf course rou¬ghs. Their use on high-quality turf was limited because of potential phytotoxicity, unpredictable turf response and differences in activity on cool- and warm-season turf. » read more GROWING A PROFESSION  2-4-2008 The game of golf is now being played in some 38 Countries within Europe, with some 4,270,000 registered golfers enjoying the game on courses prepared by a very committed Greenkeeping profession. » read more media dates contact fieldmanager.nl greenkeeper.nl turfgrass bookstore Free e-mail newsletter