SETTING UP SERAPONG

Sentosa Golf Club will be thrust into the international limelight when it stages next month’s Barclays Singapore Open, the richest national Open in Asia. In an exclusive article for Asian Golf Monthly, Quality Golf’s Tony Taylor discusses how his team has been preparing the Serapong Course for its biggest assignment. Picture by Tharm Sook Wai.

Make no mistake. Offering record prize money of US$3 million, the Barclays Singapore Open at Sentosa Golf Club has announced itself as the Asian Tour’s ‘Major’ championship.

SEAISLE 2000 GOES TEE-TO-GREEN

SeaIsle 2000, originally marketed for golf greens and tees in salt-challenged environments, has proved to be well-suited for fairways and roughs, allowing it to be used effectively as a “wall to wall” golf turf. Sahara Golf Club in Kuwait and Nanea Golf Club in Hawaii both have 18-hole facilities planted totally in SeaIsle 2000. Many high-end international and domestic courses have SeaIsle 2000 on greens and tees.

BREAKING NEW GROUND WITH CLUB MANAGEMENT VENTURE

Quality Golf has signed its first club management contract, with Pattana Golf & Sports Resort in Chonburi Province. Located in the heart of Thailand’s Eastern Seaboard, within 1.5 hrs drive from Bangkok, this luxurious, modern Resort is surrounded by a scenic mountain range and offers the following facilities:

AGREEMENTS SIGNED WITH SENTOSA GOLF CLUB & AMATA SPRING COUNTRY CLUB

''We are truly delighted to have formed agreements with two of the Region’s premier Clubs to provide maintenance consultancy services. By being selected to perform these assignments, I have truly reached the pinnacle of my career'' said Tony Taylor.

SETTING GOLF COURSE POLICY GUIDELINES & STANDARDS

Before you can satisfy expectations of members and guests at your golf coursed facility, it would be prudent to determine their exact nature so that you can accurately identify which goal or purpose you are working towards. Setting written standards with the committee and/or owner of a golf course goes a long way to creating reality and agreement on where your priorities lie, and only then can you focus your energies to achieve some mutual understanding and perceived benefit for the Club.

TRADITION OF EXCELLENCE IN KEEPING THE GREEN
(Part Three)

Golf Courses throughout Asia share common ground when it comes to maintaining greens - we are all fighting Mother Nature’s fury in the monsoon season, with the goal of keeping fine quality turf alive and playable. Turf decline starts to occur during the intensive rains and extremely low light levels. Then, and often for days on end, it is nearly impossible to grow healthy greens grass and still keep putting surfaces playable for our members and the golfing public.

TRADITION OF EXCELLENCE IN KEEPING THE GREEN
(Part Two)

International golf tournaments and television viewing by millions of golfers worldwide has certainly raised the bar in terms of what the average golfer and private club members expect for putting green quality. The double-edged sword is that they now demand speed and good-looking turf colour. What they fail to realize is that most of the courses shown on TV are meticulously maintained for months in advance and usually have large budgets at hand to have the greens peak for the tournament week.