Golf Course Architecture - Issue 65, July 2021

65 Photo: Kevin Murray in 2019 and, more recently, hosting a Faldo Series event. In April 2020, when the UK went into its first national lockdown, which included the closure of golf courses, Kedleston’s general manager Robert Simpson said the club entered “survival mode”. “We recalibrated the budgets to make sure that the club could survive and obviously, when golf reopened in the summer, like many clubs, we got a bit of a boom,” said Simpson. “We took various measures, including following advice from BIGGA [the British and International Golf Greenkeepers Association] to have three greenkeepers during lockdown. But as soon as we could get our full 10 back, they were back in.” Having experienced a better year than they originally forecasted in April 2020, the club brought in Mark Ganning, northern Europe area Kedleston Park has completed multiple projects since 2013 in an effort to improve the golf course and facilities