Golf Business News – Praia d'El Rey works with R&A Sustainable Agronomic Services
The Praia d'El Rey Marriott golf and beach resort in Portugal has been united with R&A’s sustainable agronomic services to further strengthen its commitment to deliver performance and conditioning in a sustainable way.
Located between the Atlantic Ocean and protected natural landscapes, Praia d'El Rey is a unique position to advocate high-quality playing surfaces in an environmentally sustainable way. This visionary partnership will bring R&A’s renowned expertise and innovation directly to Praia d’El Rey in performance agronomics, and a tailor-made program is designed to enhance the effectiveness of all areas of certain maintenance while protecting and enhancing the wider environment.
The key objectives of the partnership include improving turf health through soil science, data-driven agronomy, to inform maintenance operations, implement effective water retention practices and effective water usage, and to advise strategic investments in machinery and infrastructure – all of which provide a high-performance Turf condition while providing a high-responsible resort in the environment.
António Ferreira Da Silva, director of golf at Praia d'El Rey, explained: “R&A's guidance on how to manage soil infiltration and physical conditions on the greens is helping us improve performance throughout the year. Performance. Performance of performance. Performance measurement, combined with laboratory organic analysis, in terms of organic analysis, our decisions are both of quality and certain. Our maintenance simultaneously optimizes environmental sustainability.”
Paul Woodham, head of European agronomics at R&A, added: “Ongoing investments – especially in maintenance workshops such as new grinders, tremolo machines for improving fairway penetration, and autonomous Husqvarna Fairway Mowers – represent the major innovations.
Ferreira Da Silva added: “By partnering with R&A, we have not only invested in the long-term health of our courses, but also brought efforts to the future look of Portuguese golf.”
