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A new approach for
Minchinhampton Golf Club
INCHINHAMPTON Golf
M
Club’s championship
Avening and Cherington
courses near the
village of Avening in
Gloucestershire and The Old Course on
National Trust-owned Minchinhampton
Common are renowned for their yearround
immaculate presentation.
Testament to this is that within just
seven years of The Cherington Course
opening, the R&A chose it as the southwest
venue for its Open Championship
Regional Qualifying tournament from
2002 to 2007. The Avening Course has
since been chosen to host the same
event between 2018 and 2023 (now
extended to 2024, since this year’s Open
Championship at Royal St Georges was
postponed to next year).
Just one of the 12-strong greenkeeping
team led by courses manager Adam
Matthews, including workshop manager
Will Harris, was furloughed during
the coronavirus lockdown, for health
reasons.
38 GroundskeepingJournal.co.uk | Summer 2020