4.53pm 16th January 2025 - <a href="https://golfbusinessnews.com/news/greenkeeping/">Greenkeeping & Agronomy</a> <br><a href="https://www.prestwickgc.co.uk">Prestwick Golf Club</a>, the birthplace of The Open Championship, is one of Scotland’s oldest and most famous courses. A machinery replacement budget allows Course Manager Dave Edmondson an injection of capital, annually, to add and replace machines.<br>“We made provision for the club’s 14-year-old <a href="https://wiedenmann.co.uk">Wiedenmann </a>Terra Spike XF6 to retire in 2023. However, it was still doing such a clean and efficient job that I knew it could easily finish a 15th year of service, so pencilled its replacement for December 2024 instead.<br>“At a demo mid-summer, it took only a few minutes to choose it would be followed by a <a href="https://wiedenmann.co.uk/terra_spike.html">GXi8 HD</a>. After watching it take a run across the practice chipping green on 12 mm tines, leaving such little surface disruption, I didn’t need to see anything else. The elderly XF6 was traded in very favourably; a good bit of business, all round.”<br>Edmondson joined the South Ayrshire club during 2020, appointed to his post from The Island Golf Club in Donabate, County Dublin, and heads a team of 11.<br>“Prestwick is a classic links site; there’s a lot of history here. We are very traditional in our management, low input, very little fertiliser, no pesticides, aiming always for minimum disturbance. I plan aeration to go once; usually the last week of January, conditions allowing. We’ll do greens, tees, aprons and sections of the fairways with 12mm tines.<br>“I chose the GXi8 on the basis it brings a choice to go again, maybe once or twice across the season, on the greens with smaller 8mm tines. I don’t want to disrupt golf, and this is the best machine to suit us.”<br>Stuart Cameron, Area Sales Manager at Fairways GM, Wiedenmann UK’s Scottish dealer and Wiedenmann’s lead demonstrator Andy Kerr, installed the machine for the Prestwick team.<br>Celtic Manor Resort in Wales has earned GEO certification for its Twenty Ten Course following the introduction of numerous new sustainability initiatives.<br>FootJoy has launched an all-new version of its popular Fuel golf shoe, which has been redesigned from the ground up to offer golfers a model packed full of comfort in an incredibly lightweight platform.<br>Troon International, the international division of Troon, has partnered with leading PR and marketing specialists Azalea to further its reputation across key markets outside the United States.<br><a href="https://twitter.com/home?status=https://golfbusinessnews.com/news/greenkeeping/prestwick-replaces-wiedenmann-terra-spike-after-15-years-of-service/" rel="noopener" data-via="eGolfBusiness" data-hashtags="GolfBusinessNews">Share on Twitter</a> <br><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://golfbusinessnews.com/news/greenkeeping/prestwick-replaces-wiedenmann-terra-spike-after-15-years-of-service/&title=Prestwick+replaces+Wiedenmann+Terra+Spike+after+15+years+of+service&source=GolfBusinessNews.com" rel="noopener">Share on LinkedIn</a><br>GolfBusinessNews.com (GBN) is for the many thousands of people who work in the golf business all around the world.<br>We cover the full range of topics both on and off the course. We aim to supply essential information both quickly and accurately in a format which is easy to use. We are independent of all special interest groups.<br><a style="font-weight: 600;" href="https://eepurl.com/bpOC9">Click here to sign up</a> for our free twice weekly golf industry news summary<br>View the <a class="gbn-latest-email" href="https://golfbusinessnews.com/weekly-emails/the-latest-news-from-gbn-38/">latest newsletter</a> here<br>5/7 High Street<br>Dorchester-on-Thames<br>Oxfordshire OX10 7HH<br>United Kingdom<br><a href="mailto:publisher@golfbusinessnews.com">publisher@golfbusinessnews.com</a><br>© 1999-2025 <a href="https://golfbusinessnews.com">e.GolfBusiness.com Limited</a> | All Rights Reserved. | <a href="/privacy-policy/">GBN Privacy Policy</a> <br><br><a href="https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMitgFBVV95cUxQY05pajZ5ZnhMeGhXZXR0NlRhS2JDamxmRGZvWDFBckVvVnJzam5ENmR5U1Y2aUdoeGNoR3lQT2l3UnhnR0JOb0RKYWluT083Sl91R1hvRS00a1NPZWxJeW5QeEJGdTRGR09nNV9nek11VlA1a3NCc2Uwa3lwVklNY3E5Ujh4V1VrQ1prWk5WWWxhQmotMjNHT1ExM2FaVVZtSzhIYUpidUxiSjFoM2xXVFZPUVoxZw?oc=5">source</a>
