{"id":164,"date":"2018-09-10T16:34:26","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T15:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/?p=164"},"modified":"2019-02-27T16:37:12","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T16:37:12","slug":"through-the-season-wiedenmann-wins-it-for-nelson-gc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/through-the-season-wiedenmann-wins-it-for-nelson-gc\/","title":{"rendered":"Through-the-season Wiedenmann wins it for Nelson GC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Head\ngreenkeeper Gary McKie at Nelson Golf Club, Lancashire had a very specific\nreason for choosing a Wiedenmann Terra Spike GXi8 HD in April.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe main\nattraction was to be able to aerate during the season knowing it caused little\ndisturbance.&nbsp; You want golfers not to notice.\nWe\u2019ve been out mostly with 8mm tines so far. They\u2019re good to use in season.&nbsp; If you are out on a Monday, by Tuesday people\ncan hardly tell. Crucially you can still get down 10\u201d and the job\u2019s been done,\u201d\nhe said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gary took\nover his post in May 2017 at the Dr Alister MacKenzie designed course which sits\non a plateau over Nelson and Burnley, and boasts breath taking panoramic views\nacross both Lancashire and Yorkshire. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At his previous\njob with Pleasington GC, Gary became familiar with the GXi8 HD, so was well\nversed in the speed and efficiency it could achieve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe machine\nwill be in use regularly, not just on tees and greens but walkways and\napproaches. We\u2019ve been out three times over the green and once on the tees so\nfar. On a long day we can get around all 18 greens or we can just leave two for\nthe next day, it\u2019s that quick.&nbsp; We\u2019ve\nbeen varying the depth and if we want to put a little bit of heave we can, by\njust making one adjustment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLater in\nthe year, probably towards the end of October, we will hollow core a couple of\nspecific areas. Our agronomist has suggested sections on two of the fairways\nthat have a little bit of moss. That\u2019s where the flexibility of the Wiedenmann\nworks well &#8211; you can deep tine and hollow tine equally easy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Local Wiedenmann\nUK dealer to Nelson GC is Balmers GM with ground care specialist Andrew Meeks,\nproviding after sales service and support from their Burnley depot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ends<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head greenkeeper Gary McKie at Nelson Golf Club, Lancashire had a very specific reason for choosing a Wiedenmann Terra Spike GXi8 HD in April. \u201cThe main attraction was to be able to aerate during the season knowing it caused little disturbance.&nbsp; You want golfers not to notice. We\u2019ve been out mostly with 8mm tines so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166,"href":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}