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THE UNIQUE ECOLOGY OF LUFFENHAM HEATH GOLF CLUB

I guess the main aim and objective of this feature was to introduce you to some of the most interesting hawthorn trees I have ever had the pleasure to hug, from a safe distance obviously as they are quite thorny, hence the name.
Read more

Apple Picking and Bottling – Shirley Golf Course Apple Juice

This year has been a bumper year for fruits and nuts country wide and Shirley Golf Course is blessed with a huge number of apple trees throughout the course. The trees were absolutely laden with apples of all varieties.
Read more

Rewilding our Academy Area Hawarden GC

Five years ago our club, Hawarden GC, in North East Wales, lacked members and was precariously underfunded. In 2025 the Club won the prestigious “Welsh Golf Club of the Year”, awarded by Wales Golf. Many ingredients contributed to this turnaround in fortunes but one essential feature has been the Club’s environmental record.
Read more

Building Beehives at Shirley GC

Shirley GC in Warwickshire have started a new project on their path to sustainability and the ladies have started building their own Warré Beehives. “The hives are really expensive to buy, as it’s a more unusual hive type - not as readily available as some of the conventional hives. So we thought, perhaps we could build our own and save some money,” Wenke Gold explains.
Read more

Reducing Chemicals through Data Collection

After one of our bi-yearly tree audits, several trees were identified as dangerous and therefore needed to be felled. This, and the collection of several old pallets, had left us with wood in need of re-purposing. As a result, the Redbourn Golf Club’s maintenance crew set out to find the best way to utilize the remaining wood.
Read more

Wood You Believe It? Up-Cycle Project

After one of our bi-yearly tree audits, several trees were identified as dangerous and therefore needed to be felled. This, and the collection of several old pallets, had left us with wood in need of re-purposing. As a result, the Redbourn Golf Club’s maintenance crew set out to find the best way to utilize the remaining wood.
Read more

The Woodland Cup: A New Trophy Highlighting Sustainability at Nevill Golf Club

Nevill Golf Club in Tunbridge Wells is an example of a club taking sustainability seriously and doing it in innovative ways. The Woodland Cup is a new trophy competition there, now in its second year. The competition is organised by the Nevill’s Sustainability Sub-Committee and is aimed at promoting sustainability to members.
Read more

Baby Tawny Owl Release at the Nevill Golf Club

Nevill Golf Club in Tunbridge Wells is an example of a club taking sustainability seriously and doing it in innovative ways. As part of an ongoing relationship between the golf club and the rescue centre, five gorgeous baby tawny owls were released on the golf course in September this year (2024).
Read more

HIBERNACULA FOR AMPHIBIANS

Common frog and common toad populations have been reported as being in decline since the 1970s. Common toad populations have declined across the UK by 68% over the past 30 years, which approximates to a 2.26 % decline per year.
Read more

Bat Boxes

Pleased to report 11 Chavenage bat boxes have been kindly erected by Steve Parker & Nigel Tranter in an ‘out of play area’ on the course to supplement natural roosting places which are becoming rarer.
Read more
Dead hedge - end of Day 2 22102019

Building a Dead Hedge

So, what is a Dead Hedge? “A dead hedge is a barrier constructed from cut branches, saplings, and foliage. The material can be gathered from activities such as pruning or clearing, and in traditional forms of woodland management, such as coppicing. Its ecological succession can be a beetle bank or hedge.”
Read more
Silver Birch Monoculture

WOODLAND MANAGEMENT at Cosby Golf Club

In September 2023, it was proposed to the Club’s Board, that we develop a comprehensive Woodland Management Plan (WMP). This initiative is essential to promote greater air circulation and ingress of light in areas of play that are currently heavily shaded.
Read more

LOOK WHAT WE’VE DONE

Hinckley Golf Club’s new Ecology Group reports to the club directors on its first few months Reproduced with kind permission of Hinckley Golf Club
Read more

BEETLE LOGGERY at RUTLAND WATER

Upright log piles can provide a habitat for many species of deadwood feeding (Saproxylic) invertebrates in public areas of woodlands, parks and Nature Reserves, in places where standing deadwood cannot be left due to safety reasons.
Read more

The Greenest of Greenkeepers

When I started green keeping 18 years ago I didn’t know anything about nature, or golf for that matter, I just wanted to work outside. Over that time, more and more focus has been put onto sustainability and working in ways to benefit nature, and rightly so.
Read more

Foxgloves in the Conifers

For the past five years a small team of volunteers at Market Harborough Golf Club have, with the support of the club’s board of directors, been following a series of environmental policies and projects ranging from single use plastics and recycling, to LED lighting and on course environmental enhancements.
Read more
Navigating the Energy Crisis - How Golf Clubs Can Swing Towards Sustainability with UtilityWorks and Greenergolf Featured Image

Navigating the Energy Crisis: How Golf Clubs Can Swing Towards Sustainability with UtilityWorks and Greenergolf

The energy market is in a state of flux, with businesses across all sectors grappling with rising costs and market volatility. Golf clubs are no exception. The challenges are manifold, from soaring energy prices to significant increases in water costs. However, amidst these challenges, there are opportunities for golf clubs to become more energy-efficient, sustainable, and resilient.
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Stonebridge Golf Centre's Journey to Sustainability with UtilityWorks Featured Image

Stonebridge Golf Centre’s Journey to Sustainability with UtilityWorks

Stonebridge Golf Centre, a renowned golf club, has been working with UtilityWorks for several years. UtilityWorks has managed their entire utilities portfolio, allowing Stonebridge to focus on their core business. The partnership has led to significant savings in time, money, and energy consumption.
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Making Homes for Slow Worms

Slow worms are neither worms nor, in fact snakes, but a small genus of snake-like legless lizards in the family Anguidae. Its identity is given away by its abilities and blink with its eyelids.
Read more
Hornet Moth

Introducing the Hornet Moth

The Hornet Moth (Sesia apiformis) is the largest of our region’s clearwing moths and also one of the rarest. There are currently only seven known colonies within the East Midlands (Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and Rutland).
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Badger Deterrents: A Case Study from Ullesthope Court Golf Club

As with many clubs, Ullesthorpe Court GC has experienced much badger damage in the last few years, particularly on and around our greens.  A couple of methods were attempted, using sprays and smells, but with no success.
Read more

Wildlife Conservation: Good or Bad for Golf Courses?

Wildlife on golf courses is one of those things that sparks very different reactions among golfers, and sometimes even golf club managers, excluding, of course, the enlightened readers of The Golf Club Secretary!
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Reviving the Black Poplar: Branching Out With the Tree Council

By the end of this year Cold Ashby Golf Centre will have planted about 650 new native trees. Our aim was to increase biodiversity, create wildlife habitats, strengthen the playing strategy required for some holes and reinforce its attractive landscape.
Read more

Making Homes for Newts

UPDATED JANUARY 2023: There’s a new Head Greenkeeper at Glen Gorse Golf Club: James Burberry, a passionate wildlife enthusiast, is working with the help of key members like Alan Herbert, on initiatives to benefit nature. The first, and the more unusual, is a project to restore and expand habitats for a local newt population.
Read more

MOREwoods and MOREhedges

The Woodland Trust is based here in Grantham and they have 2 schemes called MOREwoods and MOREhedges. You can apply to them for advice, funding and supply of saplings. At SGC we did this and received over 2,500 saplings, together with guards and stakes.
Read more

The Rachel Carson Bowl

At Market Harborough Golf Club we recognised the need to raise members’ awareness of our activities, especially when so much of what we are trying to do is, by definition, low profile or has a lengthy lead-in or incubation time. One way of doing this, and at the same time raising some funding, was to organise a new club competition.
Read more

NEW EQUIPMENT FLEET

12 months ago the main season equipment at The Leicestershire was on its last legs to say the least. With one fairway mower sent to the graveyard and the remaining over 20 years old… things had to change.
Read more

REMOVING TREES ATCHARNWOOD FOREST GC

MAPPING AND IDENTIFYING TREES FOR REMOVAL
Read more

Going Green at Longcliffe Golf Club

Long before the “green agenda” became a popular cause Longcliffe Golf Club was thinking “environmentally”. However, this was not entirely altruistic because “going green” can sometimes make financial sense as well as being good for the environment.
Read more

Sustainable Greenkeeping – Reducing Inputs and Chemical Usage

The world is changing around us and we are expected to become more sustainable and greener. But what does that mean for golf courses? Are they not all ready green? 
Read more

Building a Barn Owl Tower

As part of a larger project for Sleaford Golf Club, we obtained planning permission on an old barn on the course that served no purpose. This will give the club much needed  funds to take it forward. However, the barn itself had resident barn owls and as part of the planning conditions we had to make provision for a replacement home.
Read more

Greetham Valley Golf Club Composting

We started composting about 10 years ago when I suddenly realised that the ‘green waste’ top dressing that I was buying in for our weak fairways was something we could produce on site.
Read more
Greetham Valley Golf Club Bird Hides Featured Image

Greetham Valley Golf Club Bird Hides

To complement the wide range of activities we can offer at GVGC, and because of the BIRD FAIR held annually at Rutland water (no longer!), we set about building a couple of bird hides and a floating island. We mapped out a walk for our hotel guests to enjoy some of the wildlife we attract at our golf course.
Read more
Tree Nursery Or Not Tree Nursery at Lingdale Golf Club Featured Image

Tree Nursery Or Not Tree Nursery at Lingdale Golf Club by Peter Haddon

After a number of attempts to secure a delivery of trees, we were grateful to receive a box of "whips" from the Woodland Trust - 100 plus plugs tied in bundles of 10/15. An interesting point to make here is that a "whip" can be anything from 1ft (30cm) to 3ft (90cm).
Read more
Fulford Heath Golf Club - Biodiversity Featured Image

Fulford Heath Golf Club – Biodiversity Project

Fulford Heath Golf Club in Wythall, Worcestershire has had a long history of striving to enhance the biodiversity of their course with the inclusion of wildflowers, installing bird boxes, bug houses, introducing hedgehogs to the course and more.
Read more
The Hawk and Owl Trust Case Study Featured Image

The Hawk and Owl Trust at MHGC

Following a chance contact at a wildlife trust talk at Rutland Water, Market Harborough Golf Club made contact with the Hawk and Owl Trust, and its East Midlands regional officer, Simon Dudhill.
Read more

Wood You Believe It? Up-Cycle Project

After one of our bi-yearly tree audits, several trees were identified as dangerous and therefore needed to be felled. This, and the collection of several old pallets, had left us with wood in need of re-purposing. As a result, the Redbourn Golf Club’s maintenance crew set out to find the best way to utilize the remaining wood.
Read more

THE UNIQUE ECOLOGY OF LUFFENHAM HEATH GOLF CLUB

I guess the main aim and objective of this feature was to introduce you to some of the most interesting hawthorn trees I have ever had the pleasure to hug, from a safe distance obviously as they are quite thorny, hence the name.
Read more
Dead hedge - end of Day 2 22102019

Building a Dead Hedge

So, what is a Dead Hedge? “A dead hedge is a barrier constructed from cut branches, saplings, and foliage. The material can be gathered from activities such as pruning or clearing, and in traditional forms of woodland management, such as coppicing. Its ecological succession can be a beetle bank or hedge.”
Read more
Silver Birch Monoculture

WOODLAND MANAGEMENT at Cosby Golf Club

In September 2023, it was proposed to the Club’s Board, that we develop a comprehensive Woodland Management Plan (WMP). This initiative is essential to promote greater air circulation and ingress of light in areas of play that are currently heavily shaded.
Read more

LOOK WHAT WE’VE DONE

Hinckley Golf Club’s new Ecology Group reports to the club directors on its first few months Reproduced with kind permission of Hinckley Golf Club
Read more

BEETLE LOGGERY at RUTLAND WATER

Upright log piles can provide a habitat for many species of deadwood feeding (Saproxylic) invertebrates in public areas of woodlands, parks and Nature Reserves, in places where standing deadwood cannot be left due to safety reasons.
Read more

Foxgloves in the Conifers

For the past five years a small team of volunteers at Market Harborough Golf Club have, with the support of the club’s board of directors, been following a series of environmental policies and projects ranging from single use plastics and recycling, to LED lighting and on course environmental enhancements.
Read more

Making Homes for Slow Worms

Slow worms are neither worms nor, in fact snakes, but a small genus of snake-like legless lizards in the family Anguidae. Its identity is given away by its abilities and blink with its eyelids.
Read more

Badger Deterrents: A Case Study from Ullesthope Court Golf Club

As with many clubs, Ullesthorpe Court GC has experienced much badger damage in the last few years, particularly on and around our greens.  A couple of methods were attempted, using sprays and smells, but with no success.
Read more

Making Homes for Newts

UPDATED JANUARY 2023: There’s a new Head Greenkeeper at Glen Gorse Golf Club: James Burberry, a passionate wildlife enthusiast, is working with the help of key members like Alan Herbert, on initiatives to benefit nature. The first, and the more unusual, is a project to restore and expand habitats for a local newt population.
Read more

The Rachel Carson Bowl

At Market Harborough Golf Club we recognised the need to raise members’ awareness of our activities, especially when so much of what we are trying to do is, by definition, low profile or has a lengthy lead-in or incubation time. One way of doing this, and at the same time raising some funding, was to organise a new club competition.
Read more

NEW EQUIPMENT FLEET

12 months ago the main season equipment at The Leicestershire was on its last legs to say the least. With one fairway mower sent to the graveyard and the remaining over 20 years old… things had to change.
Read more

REMOVING TREES ATCHARNWOOD FOREST GC

MAPPING AND IDENTIFYING TREES FOR REMOVAL
Read more

Going Green at Longcliffe Golf Club

Long before the “green agenda” became a popular cause Longcliffe Golf Club was thinking “environmentally”. However, this was not entirely altruistic because “going green” can sometimes make financial sense as well as being good for the environment.
Read more

Building a Barn Owl Tower

As part of a larger project for Sleaford Golf Club, we obtained planning permission on an old barn on the course that served no purpose. This will give the club much needed  funds to take it forward. However, the barn itself had resident barn owls and as part of the planning conditions we had to make provision for a replacement home.
Read more

Greetham Valley Golf Club Composting

We started composting about 10 years ago when I suddenly realised that the ‘green waste’ top dressing that I was buying in for our weak fairways was something we could produce on site.
Read more
Greetham Valley Golf Club Bird Hides Featured Image

Greetham Valley Golf Club Bird Hides

To complement the wide range of activities we can offer at GVGC, and because of the BIRD FAIR held annually at Rutland water (no longer!), we set about building a couple of bird hides and a floating island. We mapped out a walk for our hotel guests to enjoy some of the wildlife we attract at our golf course.
Read more
Tree Nursery Or Not Tree Nursery at Lingdale Golf Club Featured Image

Tree Nursery Or Not Tree Nursery at Lingdale Golf Club by Peter Haddon

After a number of attempts to secure a delivery of trees, we were grateful to receive a box of "whips" from the Woodland Trust - 100 plus plugs tied in bundles of 10/15. An interesting point to make here is that a "whip" can be anything from 1ft (30cm) to 3ft (90cm).
Read more
The Hawk and Owl Trust Case Study Featured Image

The Hawk and Owl Trust at MHGC

Following a chance contact at a wildlife trust talk at Rutland Water, Market Harborough Golf Club made contact with the Hawk and Owl Trust, and its East Midlands regional officer, Simon Dudhill.
Read more

HIBERNACULA FOR AMPHIBIANS

Common frog and common toad populations have been reported as being in decline since the 1970s. Common toad populations have declined across the UK by 68% over the past 30 years, which approximates to a 2.26 % decline per year.
Read more

Bat Boxes

Pleased to report 11 Chavenage bat boxes have been kindly erected by Steve Parker & Nigel Tranter in an ‘out of play area’ on the course to supplement natural roosting places which are becoming rarer.
Read more

MOREwoods and MOREhedges

The Woodland Trust is based here in Grantham and they have 2 schemes called MOREwoods and MOREhedges. You can apply to them for advice, funding and supply of saplings. At SGC we did this and received over 2,500 saplings, together with guards and stakes.
Read more

Reducing Chemicals through Data Collection

After one of our bi-yearly tree audits, several trees were identified as dangerous and therefore needed to be felled. This, and the collection of several old pallets, had left us with wood in need of re-purposing. As a result, the Redbourn Golf Club’s maintenance crew set out to find the best way to utilize the remaining wood.
Read more

Reviving the Black Poplar: Branching Out With the Tree Council

By the end of this year Cold Ashby Golf Centre will have planted about 650 new native trees. Our aim was to increase biodiversity, create wildlife habitats, strengthen the playing strategy required for some holes and reinforce its attractive landscape.
Read more

The Woodland Cup: A New Trophy Highlighting Sustainability at Nevill Golf Club

Nevill Golf Club in Tunbridge Wells is an example of a club taking sustainability seriously and doing it in innovative ways. The Woodland Cup is a new trophy competition there, now in its second year. The competition is organised by the Nevill’s Sustainability Sub-Committee and is aimed at promoting sustainability to members.
Read more

Baby Tawny Owl Release at the Nevill Golf Club

Nevill Golf Club in Tunbridge Wells is an example of a club taking sustainability seriously and doing it in innovative ways. As part of an ongoing relationship between the golf club and the rescue centre, five gorgeous baby tawny owls were released on the golf course in September this year (2024).
Read more

Rewilding our Academy Area Hawarden GC

Five years ago our club, Hawarden GC, in North East Wales, lacked members and was precariously underfunded. In 2025 the Club won the prestigious “Welsh Golf Club of the Year”, awarded by Wales Golf. Many ingredients contributed to this turnaround in fortunes but one essential feature has been the Club’s environmental record.
Read more

Apple Picking and Bottling – Shirley Golf Course Apple Juice

This year has been a bumper year for fruits and nuts country wide and Shirley Golf Course is blessed with a huge number of apple trees throughout the course. The trees were absolutely laden with apples of all varieties.
Read more

Building Beehives at Shirley GC

Shirley GC in Warwickshire have started a new project on their path to sustainability and the ladies have started building their own Warré Beehives. “The hives are really expensive to buy, as it’s a more unusual hive type - not as readily available as some of the conventional hives. So we thought, perhaps we could build our own and save some money,” Wenke Gold explains.
Read more

The Greenest of Greenkeepers

When I started green keeping 18 years ago I didn’t know anything about nature, or golf for that matter, I just wanted to work outside. Over that time, more and more focus has been put onto sustainability and working in ways to benefit nature, and rightly so.
Read more

Sustainable Greenkeeping – Reducing Inputs and Chemical Usage

The world is changing around us and we are expected to become more sustainable and greener. But what does that mean for golf courses? Are they not all ready green? 
Read more
Fulford Heath Golf Club - Biodiversity Featured Image

Fulford Heath Golf Club – Biodiversity Project

Fulford Heath Golf Club in Wythall, Worcestershire has had a long history of striving to enhance the biodiversity of their course with the inclusion of wildflowers, installing bird boxes, bug houses, introducing hedgehogs to the course and more.
Read more

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