GOLF COURSES
Centurion Club thank George Browns and Baroness for support during successful LIV Golf Tournament
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H partners to Hertfordshire ’ s Centurion Club for a number of years , George Browns recently played a pivotal role in the successful delivery of the LIV Golf League London event in early July . The supply of additional equipment and service training was the result of six months of intricate planning between Course Manager Andrew Garland , Stuart Gray from Baroness and David Fisher , Area Sales Manager at George Browns ’ Chesham branch . The result , says Andrew , was “ outstanding support and a perfect playing surface from start to finish !”
Nestled into rural countryside to the west of St Albans , the Centurion Club delivers a mixture of open , undulating holes combined with challenging woodland-lined holes , delivering a feeling of maturity to the club which opened to members and the public in 2013 . “ Our relationship with George Browns was cemented roughly four years ago after we fell victim to the theft of our tees mowers ” explains Andrew . “ David lent us their demonstration Baroness mowers to get us out of a really tricky situation at the time , and the team ended up liking the mowers that much that we purchased them ! Since then , any time we ’ re in the market for a new machine , we ’ ll get David in and nine times out of ten , that ’ s the machine we purchase .”
Andrew and his team of 12 currently run a fleet of Kubota tractors and RTV utility vehicles , three fairway and four tees mowers from Baroness along with a Redexim Top- Brush and Verti-Drain – all supplied by the Chesham depot of George Browns .
“ We started preparing for the LIV Golf League event in January . I sat down with Stuart and David to draw up a list of what we ’ d need – not just extra equipment but ensuring that the machinery already in the
48 GroundskeepingJournal . co . uk | September / October 2023