GREENKEEPING
Jack Nicklaus courses at London Golf Club
benefit from Ventrac
ondon Golf Club has taken
L delivery of the new Ventrac 4520 all-terrain compact tractor and selection of attachments to assist in the maintenance of their two Jack Nicklaus-designed courses near Brands Hatch in Kent .
Lee Sayers is the Golf Courses and Estate Manager and heads a team of 27 full-time staff and 15 part-time including two head greenkeepers , a workshop mechanic , irrigation technician and a gardener with 21 members of the team working on the golf course .
Lee began his career in 1991 at Cottesloe Golf Club in the suburbs of Perth in Western Australia , before returning to the UK in 1994 to take the position of assistant greenkeeper at London Golf Club . Four years later he joined Hempstead Forest Golf Club near Cranbrook and in 2000 returned to London Golf Club as No . 2 to Peter Todd . In 2003 he joined Mid Kent Golf Club near Gravesend , where he spent 14 years until returning to take up his current role in 2017 .
“ That might seem a very large team to most people , but we have 500 acres of estate including two championship golf courses to manage and large areas of woodland ; it ’ s an intensive job ”, he says .
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“ Changing between the different attachments is quick and easy . There ’ s no three-point linkage to worry about or adjustments to make , you simply drive out of the current implement and drive into the next one .”
Members and guests expect a high level of presentation at London Golf Club
38 GroundskeepingJournal . co . uk | July 2022