Have you ever played a great game of bowls when everything on the green was perfect; you read every twitch on the rink and it seemed like you had finally got the green the way you wanted it. The disappointment when you return to the green the very next day, prepare the rink in completely …
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Save £1800 with Do Nothing Greenkeeping
It's hard to believe that a bowling club could easily save £1800 in greenkeeping costs every year whilst actually improving the green. Do nothing greenkeeping is my name for this phenomenon and I estimate that 98% of UK bowling clubs could benefit from it, starting this year.
Performance Greenkeeping Tasks for September
Greenkeeping Tasks for September and October have become to some degree a bit repetitive. This would be fine if the desired results followed, but in the majority of cases this can't be said to be true. This month John explains the science behind the perfect autumn renovation plan to get your green started down the road to consistent high performance.
Bowling Green smoothness and trueness
Bowling green smoothness and trueness are measurable concepts and the data can be used to ensure that the ideal maintenance program is followed to make your green perform to previously unattained levels of excellence.
Performance Basics-Watering the Green
The watering of bowling greens is one of those critical issues in bowling that splits opinion across the game. Some purists would see no artificial watering of greens regardless of how dry the weather gets. Some are in favour to different degrees; some would argue that the green should only be watered enough to keep …
Bowls Green Maintenance
A very general title for today’s article, but it reflects the current industry desire for a fix all solution to achieving a good bowling green. Most clubs are unhappy to some extent with the performance of their bowling greens. This leads to an open ended search for solutions where the searcher i.e. the bowling club …
Green Surface requirements for high performance.
Following on from yesterdays post on Performance Green Properties, the ideal bowling green then, will be uniform in terms of appearance, pace and consistency of play over the whole green and over the season. We will probably see an increase in pace as the summer progresses, but we shouldn’t see too many fluctuations in this …
Thatch on the bowls green
After LDP there is probably more information on this site about Thatch than anything else. Thatch production by grass plants is a natural process. Thatch is the layer at the very top of the green surface between the green grass blades and the brown soil beneath. Simply put; the bigger the distance between the green …
Performance Bowls Greens the key to Bowls Club Survival
The quality and consistency of the playing surface on your green and your club’s chances of long term survival are inextricably linked, why? Well if we consider the sport of bowls as a business for a minute it is clear, at least in the UK , that there is a vast over supply in the …
Think laterally for bowls green speed
Green speed is always a hot topic at this time of year and the most popular methods for achieving increased speed are usually to turn off the water and set the mower down; both of which can cause long term damage to the green. Mowing the green regularly below 5mm can really start to harm …