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The future of bowls at club level has probably never been less certain than it is today. With many clubs struggling to attract new members and meet the cost of basic bills, the effects of the recession on club revenues and the costs of maintaining and running a club going up rapidly, it is time to apply some lateral thinking to the future of the game in the UK.

Following the successful release of our ebook Performance Bowling Greens, a practical guide by John Quinn earlier this year we are currently putting the final touches to a new and complementary publication called Bowling Club Turnaround and Survival.

This book is targeted at individual clubs and will offer a cohesive strategy to help them assess and quantify their current situation, develop a strategy for turning their fortunes around and finally to implement that strategy effectively.

Bowling Club Turnaround and Survival lays down a step by step plan that clubs can follow to ensure that they are making the best of every opportunity presented to them.

This ground breaking new ebook will be available here from the end of August 2010.

You can register your interest using the form below. This will ensure that you are among the first to be alerted to the book’s release.

Localised dry patch…again

Localised dry patch is a disorder found in many bowls and golf greens. It can devastate the surface of greens and render them unplayable in extreme cases. Even mild cases will have a serious affect on green performance. John looks at the causes and cures in this article.

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Performance Bowls Greens

You might have noticed that the website has a had a re-vamp. Although this has been in planning for a while we thought we would bring the new site forward to coincide with the launch of John’s new book Performance Bowling Greens, which will be available here from Monday 15th February.

There has been a lot of interest in the book this week as John has been sharing some of his insights about bowling green maintenance with us. We would like to thank all of you who have filled out the pre-booking form and apologise for not getting back to all of you personally, but this would have taken too much time out of an already busy week. We have now compiled a list of pre-bookings and will be in touch as soon as the book is available on Monday.

Meantime if you would like to be added to the pre-booking list please fill out the form below and you will get priority notice of the book’s availability. We are doing this to try to make sure the site isn’t overloaded with requests on Monday.

So have a great weekend and we will be back in touch soon.

Ice Age… Free!

18012010(002)We have received a lot of enquiries over the past few days asking for advice on dealing with the snow and ice fusariumon bowling greens and the aftermath:

The main concern during and after snow cover is the potential for the outbreak of snow mould which is caused by the same fungal pathogen as fusarium patch; and indeed, fusarium might well be encountered after the snow has melted. Although many clubs will have applied a preventative fungicide in the Autumn, this might not have provided total protection, but should have minimised the risk of attack.

When the snow has gone you might well find active areas of Fusarium and this should be treated with a curative fungicide containing the active ingredients iprodione  or chlorothalonil applied as per the manufacturer’s advice.

Many of the enquiries we have received have been related to the actual snow cover and Read more