Mark Smith

@MarkSim93794378 @MonmouthshireGC Great numbers mate no better approach, the numbers don’t lie 💪 👏

LOI organic matter results have landed, another fantastic year with a further reduction with our last hollow core carried out over 3 years ago now 🧐 Nearly 5 years since my appointment and have hit 🎯 with a data driven turf management approach #biology @MonmouthshireGC

@J_Merchant1 Hope you had a great day pal. 🎂🥳

Happy 50th Birthday to me! 🥳 Great day out with the family now time for 🥃

@graham_pickin Yes a good clean out lol!. Leaves are dropping atm where the trees are stressing from the drought mate.

@APezza3 100%. Thanks Andy

@marks_sm1th Too much water and you risk shallow rooting, your watering regime seems spot on, broken or not 👌😊

One thing about a broken irrigation system all year and dry weather. I don’t think the roots have had much choice but to search down aeration holes. #greenkeeping #turflife

@Jamesheele19423 Ain’t got a choice lol 😂. Enjoy Switzerland pal 🇨🇭 ⚽️ 👩

@marks_sm1th I'll let someone else do it next week 🤣🤣🤣

@Jamesheele19423 Tbf Jim you’ve done a stonking job with hoses everyday 😊

@marks_sm1th It's all my watering 🤣

@graham_pickin It’s the polite word but your right mate 😂

@graham_pickin I remember those days mate. You was making massive headways on them I’ve just picked up where you left off…after a small Lull in between haha

@IanJosephHarri5 100% agree with that sentiment Ian. Poa loves its feet wet 👍

@marks_sm1th Begs the question if golf courses HAD to use less water it would be a car crash for many in the short term, however in the long term better drought/disease tolerant grass species would dominate.

@IanJosephHarri5 That was my surprise Ian. Every cloud and all that mate

@marks_sm1th Nice 👌 at a time when roots tend to diminish....

@graham_pickin they do mate…can’t please them all but we’re here to do our best 💪

@graham_pickin 1st mate. Even 7, 10 amd 17 Looking so much better now we’ve installed drainage to them bad greens. Profiles starting to match up around the course now and sulphur levels way down now they can let water go and breath a little 😃

@craigrodwell They never coped this well before the compost tea addition to the program 5 years back. Every year they are more resilient. Lost automation back in April and coping well….rest of the course not so much 🤣

@marks_sm1th Great to see the soil health improving year on year. Life must be alot easier 👍🏻

@brownstuff1984 🤬🫩

Happy club championship weekend 💔 Genuinely don't know what goes through people's heads. I hope they got hit by a car when they left the site. Little pricks 🤬

⛳️European golfing royalty mixes with budding pros and amateurs at the final qualifier for next month's @TheOpen Piece with @OlisullivanGolf of @PhoenixGolfClub who is hoping to make it third time lucky at Dundonald Links tomorrow ⬇️ yorkshirepost.co.uk/sport/other-sp…

Driest spring since the war 🌵 drought conditions with scorching temperatures end of June 🥵 Greenkeepers will be doing all they can to keep surfaces alive, battling the challenges Mother Nature throws at them🔥 Please support your staff & remain patient @MonmouthshireGC

@graham_pickin @MarkSim93794378 @MonmouthshireGC Some of the brews I’ve made it’s more like pisto 🤪 🍺

Saturday afternoon brew ☕️ ensuring optimum timings ⏰ for maximum soil health benefits 🧪🤓😁 #compost #biology #turfmanagement @MonmouthshireGC