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Bath Rugby bagged a handsome trophy recently as its pitch management team were voted 2023 Professional Rugby Union Grounds Team of the Year at a glittering Oscar-style awards dinner at Headingley Stadium.

Wiltshire-based Ecosol Turfcare, who provide the grounds management for Bath Rugby, were commended by the industry body, Grounds Management Association (GMA), for the excellence of the Rec pitch and Farleigh House training surfaces in what are often very testing circumstances. Grounds manager Bretton King, head groundsman Nigel Harvey and assistant groundsman Steven Barber, travelled to Leeds for the event and were naturally delighted to be announced as the winners by Premiership Rugby’s Head of Operations, Catherine Hall, who presented the award.

All hands went on deck last week to tackle a major drainage and renovation job at Swindon Town FC’s hallowed County Ground pitch.

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South west London’s slow-draining clay soil profile has been causing almost total course closure for 2-3 months every winter at Malden G.C. “This is obviously unacceptable for our members,” says Head greenkeeper  Josh Thorley, “so this year we decided to invest in primary drainage throughout most of the course.”

Ecosolve’s Gareth Phillips recently visited Ayr and Musselburgh racecourses in Scotland at the request of the Clerks of the Course to undertake an agronomic inspection of both racecourses. It is a British Horse Racing Association requirement that all racecourses must have an independent agronomic report each year, this includes looking at the condition of the track, sward cover, density and grass health, before undertaking soil profile sampling to ascertain the condition of the topsoil around the track.