Unmissable education coming to your area

18 October 2018 Announcement
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R&A Chief Executive Martin Slumbers spoke at the BIGGA Scotland Conference in 2018

Each year BIGGA's regional conferences bring leading speakers and some of the top names in the golf and turf management industry to your doorstep.

Things are no different this time around and the Membership Services Manager in your region has been working hard to put together a fantastic programme of education.

Details of the regional conferences for winter 2018/19 can be found below and on the events section of the BIGGA website.

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Gordon McKie

Gordon McKie, course manager at the Old Course at St Andrews, will be speaking at the Central England conference on 7 November. 

He said: "Attending regional conferences gives you the opportunity to network with colleagues that you may not otherwise come into contact with on a regular basis. They also provide you with the opportunity to gain some quality education closer to home. It means younger members or those who perhaps haven't engaged with BIGGA before can get a taste of what it's all about.

"It's important to hear the different stories from different parts of the country to broaden your knowledge from those areas. It allows you to learn about other ways of doing things that you may not have come across before.

"To maximise your conference experience, take as much as you can from each speaker and network and make contact with people that you may not have come into contact with before. You never know who you might meet and where you may end up!"

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The speakers at the SW&SW conference in 2017

For more information and to book your place at a conference, click on the links below:

Central England Conference

Kings Norton Golf Club, Wednesday 7 November 2018.

Martin Ebert, Mackenzie and Ebert Golf Course Architects; Philip Russell, assistant director of sustainability, The R&A; Gordon McKie, course manager, The Old Course, St Andrews Links Trust; Matt Roberts, 59 Club.

South East Conference

Gerrards Cross Golf Club, Thursday 8 November 2018.

Dan Lightfoot MG, Syngenta; Michael Mann, course manager, Walton Heath Golf Club; Richard Elwell, Ethical Influence; Perennial; Stella Rixon, STRI; panel of greenkeepers and specialists for a Q&A session.

South West and South Wales Conference

Somerset County Cricket Ground, Wednesday 14 November 2018

Jon Wood, Castle Course, St Andrews Links Trust; Bjarni Thor Hannesson, Jeilir GC, Iceland; Craig Cameron, Golf Club St Leon-Rot, Germany; James Edwards, EDI Golf and Jason Brooks, Torquay Golf Club

Northern Conferences

Cleveland

Middlesbrough (Brass Castle) Golf Club, Wednesday 14 November 2018

Adam Newton, the STRI; Ian Pemberton, Cleveland Golf Club; Dave Edmundson, The Island Golf Club; Helen Waddington, Perennial; James Hutchinson, BIGGA.

North West

Details coming soon

North Wales

Details coming soon

BIGGA Scotland Conferences

Perth Concert Hall, Tuesday 5 March 2019

Details coming soon

Author

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Karl Hansell
BIGGA | Head of Marketing and Communications

Karl has been head of communications for BIGGA since March 2016. His duties include editing the monthly Greenkeeper International magazine, in addition to other communications activities for the association.

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