GREENSKEEPING
Up for The Cup
at Gleneagles
Gleneagles held a unique position in golfing history when the biggest event in women’s
golf concluded on the 9th to the 15th september, they became the first venue in Europe
to have hosted both The Solheim Cup and The Ryder Cup (in 2014).
s the Gleneagles and
volunteer greenkeeping
teams led by golf courses
manager Craig Haldane, together with
director of agronomy and estates Scott
Fenwick, put the finishing touches
to the Jack Nicklaus-designed PGA
Centenary Course, John Deere and
local dealer Double A are equally busy
behind the scenes.
A
biennial edition of The Solheim Cup.
The company has a long association
with professional golf, having been a
title sponsor on the PGA Tour, official
supplier to the PGA Tour for over 25
years, official supplier to the Ladies
European Tour and a partner at
numerous Solheim Cup events.
In addition, John Deere is partnering
Gleneagles by exclusively providing golf
course maintenance machinery and
ancillary equipment for use across all
three championship golf courses.
“We are very grateful for the support
from our local dealer Double A as we’ve
The greenkeeping team at Gleneagles
has risen to 100 people, with
tournament standard conditioning also
extending to The King’s Course, which
is hosting The Junior Solheim Cup, and
The Queen’s Course, which remains
open for member and VIP visitor play
during that week.
John Deere is the official golf course
and turf maintenance machinery event
partner to Gleneagles for this 16th
“
Typically we aim to maintain
all three courses at a very
high level all year round, but
we’ve upped the ante for The
Solheim Cup.
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GroundskeepingJournal.co.uk | Sept/Oct 2019