Telford Hotel & Golf Resort
Captain's Log

CAPTAIN: Trevor Allsopp

As Captain of Telford Golf and Spa Hotel I can report an excellent eight months as captain working alongside the staff at the hotel to ensure our members and our guests have a good time when at Telford. Our head green-keeper and his staff working hard to keep our course in excellent condition.

Telford winners of our home and away games against Little Hay (Hemal Hemsted) means we keep the shield for another 12 months. Telford is leading the way in the Triangular with our friends from Patshull and Worfield.

Captain Trevor Allsopp and Steve Brazier will represent Telford Golf and Spa Hotel in the Last 16 (from over 3000 entries) of the Daily Mail Foursomes finals at the Forest of Arden in October to be played over three Days.

Trevor Allsopp
Captain

Greenkeeper's Log: Matt Robbins

Course report
The remainder of 2009 will be spent preparing the course for the winter months ahead. This involves weekly leaf collecting, earthquaking of the fairways tees and rough. November and December are usually notorious for outbreaks of disease, we will try and combat this by regularly aerating the greens and keeping them dew free as much as possible. We will also begin the winter bunker maintenance programme, this involves edging and re distributing the sand around the bunker and topping up with fresh sand where required. If the rest of 2009 is anything like the last few years we will also still be cutting regularly right up until the Christmas period.

Personal profile
I started my greenkeeping career in 1993 at Stourbridge golf club as a trainee greenkeeper. I became full time a year later before eventually moving into a first assistant position in 1998, in total I spent 10 years working at Stourbridge before getting a break and taking over my own course in 2003. Calderfields golf club in Walsall was my new home for the next four years. I got the chance to come to Telford in 2007 as course manager, a chance I can only describe as a dream when I started out in greenkeeping back in 1993, it’s a championship golf course with a great reputation and our aim as a greenkeeping team is to keep enhancing that reputation.