Pennard Golf Club的“Beauty and the Beasts”

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Pennard Golf Club位于威尔士斯旺西附近的高尔半岛，以壮丽自然景观与百年球场而闻名。文章以Greenkeeper Peter Lacey的日常工作为线索，讲述球场因牲畜与马匹在场内自由活动而面临的清理、修整与维护挑战。文章涵盖清理动物粪便、损坏球道草面、修复沙坑土面、应对湿季影响及肥料扩散对非演奏区的长期代价，并强调以更灵活的维护策略维持比赛体验。

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Pennard Golf Club的自然美景与动物来客

牲畜活动带来的日常维护压力

沙坑维护策略与损伤修复

肥料处理与长期影响

CourseFeature The course overlooks three bays -Pobbles,Three Cliffs and Oxwich-all with idyllic beaches;while playing the 7th hole you aim betweenthe 14th century castle,which gives the club its emblem and appearsin a lot of golf magazines and a similarly aged church;furthermorethe valley floor,also owned by the club,is a SSSI,with the looks of afilm set. Renowned American golf course architect,Tom Doak,ratedPennard as one of his all time favourites in his book"ConfidentialGuide to Golf Courses"while he also scored the course highly in the"Best finishing holes"and"Most hospitable golf club"categories. But if you are already jealous of Head Greenkeeper,Peter Lacey,itmust also be said that when the gun went to start the race for an easylife Peter must have been bending over to tie his shoe laces. Why? Well,while the course is owned by the club the deeds still containcommoners'rights to graze livestock and Pennard has always hadaround 30 horses roaming over the course.This has been arecognised feature of the course but since the Foot and Mouth # BEAUTY AND THE BEASTS Pennard Golf Club boasts one of the mostbeautiful settings in golf but,as ScottMacCallum found out,it also has more than itsfair share of four legged friends. When picturesque settingsfor golf courses were beinghanded out Pennard GolfClub,on the Gowerpeninsula,near Swansea,in south Wales,must havebeen very near the front ofthe queue.The Gowerpeninsula was the firstlocation in the UK to bedesignated a site of Outstanding Natural Beauty andthe 106 year-old cliff top linkscourse is as excellent as it it epidemic,however,farmers have been restocking and the golf coursehas had to entertain the overspill of cattle.This has resulted in 80head of cattle roaming over the course and munching their waythrough whatever they can find and,of course,planting their size ninecloven hooves wherever it takes their fancy. With 110 head of cattle and horse,calling the course home at anyone time you don't have to be David Attenborough to work out whatone of the main duties is each day for the greenkeeping staff. "The first job every day is clearing the mess and presenting thecourse for play.I have to set aside a full day for two men to do it.Ifthere is no damage it's a bonus and they can go on and do somethingelse but it uses up two men just from an animal point of view,"sighedPeter. Each green has a small fence around it with an electrified 12 voltwire-switched off between 7am and 7pm-but,although the horsesdo take notice of the slight shock they might receive if they venturetoo close,the cattle are more inclined to treat it as a minorinconvenience on their way to marching over the green. The Penard Team "Also,they eat everything in sight and this year it has beenparticularly bad because of the number of cattle weve got.We've gotno rough and getting any definition of play has been an issue for us.And then of course there is the mess and the damage,"explainedPeter,with the air of a man who takes this abuse of his golf course inhis stride. "We had an alliance meeting this morning,with 90 golfers teeingoff from 9am,and when we came in we discovered five greensdamaged by animals and another vandalised.Today it wasn't too badas it was basically animals walking on the greens and we just have toprise up the hoof prints and roll them and they don't generallyinterfere with the roll of the ball but if they break the surface and getinto the soil we've got to top dress them out and spend a bit of timeon them.Obviously it's a lot worse in wet conditions.If it's dry theycan walk on the greens and you don't even know they've been there." The other area of the course which does take a hammering,andwhich has resulted in a very pragmatic solution,is the bunkers. "I believe our bunkers are unique.Whereas most links coursesrevet their bunkers and leave a grass face on them to hold them inplace we have to strim off all grass cover and present them with asoil face because th

FAQs

Pennard Golf Club的动物问题主要来自哪些情况？

球场常有马匹与牛在场内活动，雨季尤易导致草面受损，增加清理与修整工作量。

Greenkeeper每天的第一项工作是什么？

每天首先要清理动物造成的“mess”，并把球场整理到可供比赛的状态，必要时安排人员进行修复与滚压。

沙坑维护为何与多数链接球场不同？

为了防止动物爬入并啃食草面，沙坑需清理掉草覆盖、改以土面呈现，从而减少因攀爬造成的进一步破坏。

肥料处理对球场的非演奏区有什么影响？

将肥料带入非演奏区域后会对偏好贫瘠环境的植被（如fescues、marram或heather）产生不利影响，导致长期稀疏与退化风险。

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