T and Country Club in Rocester , Staffordshire is
GOLF COURSES
JCB Golf and Country Club adopts a Sustainable approach with the help of OAS
he prestigious JCB Golf
T and Country Club in Rocester , Staffordshire is
preparing to host the LIV Golf UK event next week , from 26-28 July 2024 , replacing Centurion Golf Club in Hertfordshire as LIV ’ s UK LIV stop .
JCB has hosted events in the last two years on the Legends Tour , the DP World Tour ’ s veteran circuit . They now join an ever-growing list of UK golf courses in connection with LIV Golf and its financial investment in the professional game .
The new Golf and Country Club opened less than five years ago in September 2019 and its testimony to Golf Course Manager Callum Wark and his 33-strong team that this is already a tournament standard course , having hosted events on the Legends Tour and the DP World Tours veteran circuit .
Previously from Loch Lomond Golf Club , Callum joined the original JCB Course Manager Euan Grant as a Senior Greenkeeper in June 2016 , along with another 15 people who were all instrumental in the construction and grow-in of the course .
Kerr Hunter from Origin Amenity Solutions ( OAS ), which encompasses Symbio , Headland Amenity , Rigby Taylor , and Turfkeeper , has dealt with Callum since his inception at the club . Callum explains , “ JBC wanted an organic and sustainable course . Euan had been working with Kerr from his former club and wanted the same results . With the active ingredients in fungicides being slowly removed from the market we wanted to proactively manage our greens moving forward and wanted to adopt a biological programme that required less input from us .”
In 2018 Euan became the General Manager and Callum was promoted to Golf Course Manager . He oversaw the official launch of the JCB Golf and Country Club , which was designed to reflect the bold , ambitious vision of Lord Bamford , Chairman of the iconic construction and agricultural equipment manufacturer JCB who wanted nothing less than the creation of a tour-ready contemporary masterpiece in course design .
Internationally renowned Robin Hiseman of European Gold Design was commissioned to create the stunning , contemporary layout in beautiful rural Staffordshire . The 7308-yard par 72 course has been designed to challenge elite golfers
48 GroundskeepingJournal . co . uk | September / October 2024