Jakes Journey Greenkeeping

 Sustainability at Rosslare Golf Links Below, I will be writing a blog on some of the key factors that go towards Rosslare being a highly sustainable golf course. In this developing time in our industry, it is of high importance to be as sustainable as possible and to help combat global warming. Be that from using less fossil fuels, to using IPM practices to reduce the amount of chemicals used on a golf course. Our own Turf Nursery. Having our own fescue turf nursery allows us to be sustainable in regard to sodding and resodding areas on the course. It allows us to produce our own turf and to fill in the used parts when they have been harvested. It reduces the amount of fossil fuels of transporting the turf. Electric Buggies. The addition of electric buggies in recent years, it has allowed us to reduce the amount of fossil fuels that we use. Previously, they had diesel-powered buggies which were very loud and used alot of fuel. Now we have reduced our noise and carbon pollution sig...

  With the College, we attended a trip to both Currcloe and Darcys sandpit in County Wexford. We first went to the new grow-in at the new Currcloe golf course, and we saw all the new areas they had seeded in. They also mentioned the fact that they used a method of hydroseeding in certain parts of the grow-in, which was very interesting to me as I had never heard of this method of seeding. They mentioned what they had sown the greens with, primarily fescue-based greens with a small amount of creeping bent.  We also got to see the rough outline of the bunkers that will be present, and I thought they were massive. They also mentioned that they are only hand-cutting greens now and into the future. I was also surprised by this as the surface area of the greens was considerably big, especially to be hand-cutting them. We also got to see their fleet of machinery, which was quite limited as the site is still in its novel stages, and the headman mentioned that they will be getting all ...