{"id":685,"date":"2022-07-28T10:23:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T09:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/?p=685"},"modified":"2023-03-09T15:16:32","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T15:16:32","slug":"penwortham-gc-opts-for-super-smooth-wiedenmann-gxi8-hd-to-access-all-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/penwortham-gc-opts-for-super-smooth-wiedenmann-gxi8-hd-to-access-all-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Penwortham GC opts for super smooth Wiedenmann GXi8 HD to access all areas<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A busy Lancashire Golf Club which wants to target excess thatch on fairways and rough has chosen a Wiedenmann Terra Spike GXi8 HD deep aerator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Preston\u2019s Penwortham GC is a fine parkland course, situated on the banks of the River Ribble. The northwest club is part of the prestigious<em> Classic Lancashire Tour. <\/em>It has an active year-round membership and a full-time greenkeeping team of five.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Head Greenkeeper, Steve Hemsley, has been in post since June 2021, and already is starting to tick off key projects on his list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOurs is quite a clay-based site, relatively flat and reasonably wet. &nbsp;The recently established USGA greens are doing well. Elsewhere, fairways and roughs are just a little too thatchy, so we needed to develop a regular aeration programme. We brought contractors in last winter, but it made sense to have a machine of our own,\u201d said Steve Hemsley<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following a successful demo with local Wiedenmann UK dealer, Balmers GM at Burnley, the club\u2019s machine arrived at the end of April.&nbsp; Wiedemann\u2019s lead demonstrator, Andy Kerr, along with Balmers\u2019 salesperson, Ben Cooke, returned to give a thorough session of induction training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIts first task, early May was to spike the fairways and some choice areas of rough with 20 mm diameter tines,\u201d continued Steve. &nbsp;\u201cOur fairways aren\u2019t huge but with a 1.8 m wide machine we easily got finished in around 2 \u00bd days. When the contractor did the fairways, they went to 150 mm without issue, so with the new machine we targeted around 175 mm, getting more air into the profile and decompacting the surface underneath.&nbsp; Ideally, we\u2019ll go again in September and, conditions allowing, during the winter again, so three times yearly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI had the GXi8 at my previous club, Bolton Old Links GC, so was aware how much time we would save compared to the long-serving machine we retired. The shock absorption and the speed set it apart. The spring systems mean no shock is delivered to the tractor or the operator, so it is an entirely smooth operation. Speed for me though is the biggest thing. It\u2019s just easy to set up and go, just much less time out on the course interrupting play.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Penwortham\u2019s greens also had deep aeration in May to encourage deeper rooting. \u201cAfter the fairways, we switched to 8 mm needle tines to do all greens. I\u2019ve renovations booked in for mid-August so they will be done again then, but the priority is elsewhere in the course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDuring Autumn, with 20 mm tines we\u2019ll get back to the spiking the fairways to break up the surface underneath. Then we\u2019ll target the roughs and finally the fairways again in winter when conditions allow.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A busy Lancashire Golf Club which wants to target excess thatch on fairways and rough has chosen a Wiedenmann Terra Spike GXi8 HD deep aerator. Preston\u2019s Penwortham GC is a fine parkland course, situated on the banks of the River Ribble. The northwest club is part of the prestigious Classic Lancashire Tour. 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