HEADLAND PROGRAMME REAPS
REWARDS, AND AWARDS, FOR
HAMWORTHY SPORTS CLUB
The significant improvement in the products, their Sportsturf specialist on our golf greens, to deliver more
condition of the multi-sport facilities at Alex Hawkes stopped by and we got uniform water distribution, which has
Dorset’s Hamworthy Sports Club has on straight away. He took some soil helped us cope without an automatic
largely been put down to a nutritional samples and spent time going through irrigation system.”
regime suggested by Headland the product range to formulate a Amenity. Such is the progression programme that would be effective in uniformity and quality achieved site-wide.” pitch, together with Multigreen®
For Gavin, one of the biggest challenges fertiliser, which we apply once early
has been to create a programme to in the season and then again in
improve surfaces, while sticking the autumn. The beauty with the
to a very tight budget. “Alex fully programme we have is, though it has
understood that we needed versatility largely remained the same in the
from the products, that could perform last few years, we have the flexibility
not only on different playing surfaces, with Alex’s knowledge to make
a half years and is solely in charge but adapt to weather conditions and adjustments here or there if we think
of the turf maintenance - a busy site other environmental pressures.” we can achieve even better results. We
across the football, cricket and golf
surfaces that Head Groundsman Gavin
Fisher has been awarded Dorset FA
Groundsman of the Year and Dorset
Cricket Groundsman of the Year - for
the second season in a row!
Gavin has been at the club for six and
that’s home to Hamworthy Cricket
Club and Hamworthy Recreation FC. Key to the programme has been
“When I joined the club, the feeding Health strategy.
programme I inherited clearly wasn’t
Headland’s ‘20/20/30’ Enhanced Plant
working” he explains. “We apply this tank-mix across both
“The golf greens in particular were every month. It is used in
suffering from disease, patchy conjunction with various analysis’
coverage and just a general lack of Xtend® slow-release fertiliser
of growth. While I had no previous which we can tweak as the seasons
experience of Headland or their change and TriCure AD™ Granular
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the golf and cricket surfaces
“We also use Xtend® on the football
temperature-controlled release
are now reaping the rewards of our
investment, having made real strides
with the health, appearance and
playability of our sports surfaces.”
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