 Gwedi, fel amddangos i gyd pan fydd gennym ar y Greinkeawerd Cronol, yr hyn sy'n gweithio'r gwaith, ac yn oed i'n gofyn i'w gwneud i gyd yn gweithio'r gwneud i'r gwaith. Rwy'n gyfan yw John McLaughlin. Felly, i gŵr John, gweithio'n gweithio'r cymdeilig. Yn gyfnod gweithio'r gweithio ar Warrington Golf Club, yw'n gweithio'n gweithio'r gwaith i gweithio'r gweithio'r gweithio ar y pensiwn. Cymru, mae'n ddigon nhw i ddweud. Rwyf i chi am всё eichther, rhai bod'r gwahanol eich gwahanol er mwynhau a chael i ddygu'. I spirit gyda'r awd hynny'n gweithio chi'n hanes gwrs, rhai dew i'ch gennym nhw'n rhai 4 o 5 mae'n hawdd eich gwahanol. Yr ydw i dyma er mwynhau a chael eich gwahanol eich gweithio. Ac fe fyddwch chi i dda i fynd, John. Rwyf, mae'n hawdd eich wahanol o'r gwahanol. Yn holl fo'ch cyd- wedi'u i ddweud allan o'r ymddangod, And in decent in it, I could' to make about 12 months, 18 months later already john was starting to make some big changes and we're four years in and we're going to have a chat about where he is now but first couple of easy questions before I go up A18 pacim on you career so far mate, where have you been from? Yeah, so I sort of I had always been interested in golf since I was 30 and all I've done really is play golf I'll ask you now as well you're pretty decent playing aren't you? Felly, wrth gwrs, rym ni'n fwy gwrth i'r ysgol yma, a'i gwasanaeth i'r ysgol i'r methu mewn. Felly, 25 rydych chi'n gweithio. Felly, ychydig ym ni'n cynnwys. Felly, mae'n gweithio gweithio. Mae'n gweithio i'r gyrdd, mae'n gweithio gweithio, ond mae'n gweithio'n gwahanol o gair. Felly, mae'n gweithio'n gwahanol o'i gweithio. y gofyn, yng Nghympeitio, yw'r dyfodol yn gweithio. Rydym ni'n gwybod i'r gofyn, dwi'n ddysgu'r pro a'r tîch yn pro, i'n dweud o lawer o'r tanthuig o'r bobl o'r gwybodaeth. Fyddwn ni'n ddweud o gweithio, i'n gwybod, yno, yw ddwy'r tanthuig. Felly, rwy'n gweithio'r Lanchysiart Unig yn 1998, ac rwy'n gweithio'r prysgol i'r 18 mlynedd a'r Glyn-Eagles. Ond rwy'n ddwy'n gweithio'r cyffredin yn 1998. 2000 a glynigol. So, mae gennym ni'n gweithio i'r ddisguidio, ond mae ydych chi'n gallu y dweud mewn gofyd yma 7-8 yr ysgol, a ddim o'n ddod rwy'n ddweud cyfrannu gwneud i'r edrych a'r hwn i'r leches Ond mae'n rhai ddim yn gweithio'n gweithio'n gwasanaeth. Rwyf. A oed oedd gwybod i gwybod o glynigol a i'n sy'n dweud i'n cyd-gwamio, bwyd itawn, i ni'n grains i gyda'r gweithredu, a'n fathio ddim yn ôl ar eich falo a bydda'r gweithredu. Mewn gwneud hynny'n dweud i fel y ein dau a yw bachiaf oherwydd yn dda i'r Tyfwyr winter, felly mae'n dweud i'r gweld, ac rwy'n nhw i'r colleg iawn i bwyd i gweld i'r Gwenn Ddwygol, i wneud wedi am wneud yn fwyaf i'r gynghwyl i'r cyfiwn, the membership went buserk and shut 79 in the fourth round but he won it by a shot yeah the greens with that underneath they were fast he could just set it up on the greens so when I lived in Melbourne for pretty much a year then I was touring from Australia for four years then I went back out I worked on the Australian Open in 2003 at the Australia golf club which is one of Australia's most prestigious courses so spent a fair bit Cyfweld, enw i chi i ei arbennig yn gweithio, ac ydych yn hwn i gweithio, a wnaethef yn ddweud hogywyd a gweithio. Ac mae'n gwybod fel oedwch ac rhai olaf i gynnig a gweithio'n Dreadd, o'ch ddweud hynny. Dun ymddangos ymeg ar gyfer y Maes benedig i ddechrau yma? Dyna, mae'n gweithio a'r ddechrau yn dweud yn gweithio, oedwch ar yr olau yn 2000, a eu cyfleoedd Radnod newid. Felly byddwn i'r gweithio gwelladech chi. Ac wneud yng NgorCHEI Uneddon Children Maid i'r gwerthu Lleidys Gweithgrannu fel amser 12 yma o ymdуд i'r gwerthu oligodau a'r olygu. Yn gyfnod y cwestiynau, rwy'n rosell mwy o'r gweithgodi ar y bobl wych yn ymdeithasol, mae yna wnaeth chi addoddoddoddog hynny, ac yn gêmio'n gweithstaeth o'r Gwyl Portrush. Yna'r gweithio'n gweithreta ei chwil eich gweithreta i'r Gwyl Portrush. Fe gennym i chi'n gyntaf o'r bwysig i gyfaluoedd yn gwahodraeth. Fe gennym i chi'n gwahodraeth, mae gennym i chi'n gwybod ar y bwysig i fynd i'r thwyngau. Felly dyna wneud o'r bwysig i'r thwyngau. Felly mae gennym i chi'n gwahodraeth o'r bwysig i fynd i chi. Mae unrhyw o'r gweithio ddefnyddio gyda'r ddefnyddio. Mae gennym i chi'n gwahodraeth o'r ddefnyddio ar y bwysig i gyfaluoedd, Ac mae gennym i chi i gael gwahodraeth, Rwy'n teimlo yn eu hunain, Ac wnaeth yn gwybod hwnnw i'ch gweithio i'n brofi a gennym hwnnw mewn gleneol yn lŷf. Ac yna'r pennyddian nhw'n graf hwnnw. Felly mae'r gwahodd ar gwellio yma o bobl mewn awr. Mae'r idea efallai sydd wedi ziwyddeisio ei ddau. Nid yw'r unig i'r Fyrnu Cyfu, Eir Llywodraeth, Rhyng Hymryd Fawl Gwyan. Ac mae'n cyfrifio i gael'r eithaf ar y lŵr ce emo'r Llywodraeth. a'r plant y gallwn syran sydd bunch, calwch, понимаю ar ei gyfer, oryntwch ddenol datblyniadau yn ei maelio petrum yn gyflogdoedd. Fa rhoi Wallum' i ni, gwylio ti'n hoffio, i atwmwhof ar hy reddar ol o'n du, yn rhoi'r new Gundarbon cagell yn cael hyn o bau staffywar, eu bod masbyddiaeth yn credu a llyfrstock. Warrington golf course, how would you say? Parkland course? Yeah, so when I took over sort of four years ago, it was very much parkland, it took a parkland field to it, it was sort of a lot of plant that had gone on in the tree plant in the 70s and 80s. So we played typical parkland, although the site is actually a Heathland site, obviously, we're only sort of half a mile from Stockton Heath and obviously the name here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we are in pretty much Stockton Heath, which they wouldn't have called it Stockton Heath if the area wasn't resembled a Heath. So from my very first times at the club, I pretty much realised that it's sort of a very fast, fair and playing golf course, and it's a acidic grassland as well, and it's quite unique the sighting, we're dominated by five fescus, and we're on sandstone, so we're very free draining, and the old photos of the course and reading the history books and looking into it, they used to call the golf course the blasted heath. So back in the 40s and 50s it was very barren and windswept, and just reference into that small quote, the blasted heath, we knew we were on some kind of Heathlands in the UK and definitely in the northwest minimal, so in the north-west of England you've basically got to have a mate standing home. Have you returned a bit then? Yeah, so over the last four years we do a lot of forums and speak to the members and from day one I'd sort of said to them this should be an unbelievable heathland, it shouldn't really be a parkland, it's lost its character, we still had the acid of the grassland and it still played fair, so over the last sort of four years we've have started to return it to more of a heathland because the site's fantastic, so we are making amazing progress, we're starting to grow a lot more rough and we're encouraging the fescus, the green complexes were quite tight and quite small, so we've opened up them massively, we've been in the swells and run-offs of what a heathland would be really, we're transplanting some heathers around the site and then we're also looking to encourage our oaks and our scots pines and some of our beaches that would be more characteristic for a heathland in the northwest of England. How long will it take to see the real noticeable change for that? So we've made great progress in the last two years so we've almost got a heathland feel and we've got a lot of the fescus around the fairway bunkers, around the old green side bunker and we're really farming up the site, we're farming up the aprons, the fairways, we're bringing in the fescus, so it's all ready now yet, so it feels a lot more heathlanding now, we're probably 18 months, two years away to have that real true heathland feel but we're well on the way and the feedback we're getting on that is really strong. So you've done a lot in the four years, I know that, I look at the Twitter accounts of both yours and the clubs and again you see the developments, it's fantastic the work that goes on here. Biggest achievement or bigger achievements, what a noticeable change around the course or what would be the course? So we have made good progress, the site's always been fantastic and Midori's managed the greens well and the bank presses were coming in but the one thing that I'm proud of is more how we develop and inspire the staff, so it's not if someone's to say what was your biggest achievement of four years at Warranton, it wouldn't be the course, the course is still, we've still got two, three years to go to get the course where it needs to be but what we have achieved is we've really developed and inspired the staff and our level of staff operation so we've brought in some management philosophies and we get inspiration from other industries so we look at maybe the aeronautical industry, what hours they work, how they operate, look at the army, how they're structured, even study a lot of football managers, see how they inspire and develop the team so we've brought in a lot of sort of management philosophies and brought in a new approach to developing and inspiring staff so we've now got a team at Warranton that operate on a very high standard and the operator at a world-class level so obviously the course isn't at a world-class level yet because we're still working on that and to be world-class takes a hell of a lot but with the staff and the operational side of things we're at a standard which I believe is sort of world-class already. Fantastic, fantastic. I know that and I'm going to have to read this for a bit in terms of the you've been nominated in the final of the golf environment awards and this is the second year that you've been into the final so how have you achieved that? So one of the big things that I'm really fond of is sort of health, wellbeing and sustainability and environment and ecology so one of the things when I started four years ago was I wanted to bring in a lot of environmental awareness and how we operate and our carbon footprints so we pretty much started that straight away so we compost every day, every week we generate sort of 60 tonnes of compost a year so it saves 600 tonnes, we save £3,500 a year in important soils because we create our own with tons of composts, we have our own honey beehive so we generate 20 to 30 jars of honey every year, we have a herb garden that we supply the chef with herbs for some of the meals where we're a paperless department, basically paperless club now so we don't deal with everything from health and safety to our everything's on softwares that we're managing develop so I actually work remotely so I don't really need an office I go and we sort of it's all on the cloud in different cloud-based systems so. Pretty much running a course of the future really isn't it? Yeah so it's more ahead of its time maybe. It's in other industries what we are doing is commonplace so it's not you're brilliant. Yeah so we're not we're not doing anything new really it's just we're linking it together so we're even our cleaning products our enzyme base so we don't use any chemicals to clean any our machines even our hand washes and enzyme based and yeah everything gets recycled nothing goes to landfill from the department and pretty much from the club so we even have clothes recycling stations we recycle all our metals we shred all our paper and that goes into compost so we have a sort of a sustainable operation which saves us a lot of money we have electric hand dryers so we're not using paper unnecessarily so yeah so we also operate a lot of our maintenance fleet is electric now so we have the latest tarot hand mowers which are electric or streamers and small machinery is electric some of our runarounds are electric and we're looking to bring in we're doing a partnership with still next year to bring in their electric mowers so their autonomous mowers so yeah to run sort of one of their electric mowers you only use the 35 pounds of electricity a year and you could be cutting a hectare of grass without always so saving on emissions and fuel is amazing so it's very good to see let's hope you win well yeah so fingers crossed we're up against St Andrew's and some of the really good clubs what we find out in January if we become the most sort of ecological sensitive and sustainable club in the country in January because look with that one good look with that it's fair to say that this is how I describe it from looking in anyway John has been very much on modern thinker forward thinking in terms of the processes let's say that have been used and I've seen a little clip on Twitter this week of a piece of machinery that was drilling down into a green and what was all that about is that new or so pretty much yet we're we're sort of looking at what something we do need to work on and that we're looking looking at is improving our greens so we are the green swore compositions fantastic but the the can soften up in the winter and we do get a lot of play so we're always driving to see how we can maintain our greens better and create better standards so in the last 18 months or last last year we're looking at the latest technology with low disturbance to get our greens performing and draining as cutters anywhere in the world so over last year we've done some drilling so we've drilled down to 12 meters and inserted some rods into greens that's worked fantastically well that was a big science in America that's just come over to your place right we've done some sand injection that's worked really well and then this week on Tuesday we had sort of one poor performing green is that the machine they've seen on so yeah so this on Tuesday we brought in a new machine which drills down to 700 mil injects high pressure air into the green and then follows that up with an injection of a teramo which is a drainage substance which helps the green drain so we it's only been done on a couple of clubs probably in Europe if not the world so we sort of almost at the forefront of new products so how would you know when that's if well we've done that on Tuesday we injected where we put 300 holes into one green we put 300 kg of this drainage material into the green and into the fishes and injected it in that was Tuesday we've had almost an inch of rain now on Tuesday and that green normally today would be unplayable today it's back on the green and it's never been so firm so that was only so yet within two days the green has gone from the softest on the course to almost the firmest and that is in two days so happy with that so yeah so it's it's early science we have to monitor that over over the winter period and over the next summer see how it performs but that had sort of in one day we had four guys working on it we had 40 men I was put into that green on Tuesday and then would you get out and then yeah so now and then results within 48 hours we've got a green that's performed and we've connected the the top profile into the subsubso which is sandstone and we've got some areas of sand so it's performing already 48 hours and the green's been closed onto back playable so we will look to take Clegg readings on that and we can monitor firmness and moisture levels so we do daily readings to see how that will perform over a long period of time and if that was to be successful with something we could roll out across the course over two three years and we know we're going to have greens that are playable all year all year yeah so I mean I'll throw some images over now we're going to walk out onto the course um just an hour or so ago this is uh December the 20th is it today yeah December the 20th what you're looking at the condition this course one notable thing from four years ago on a first gorye on it this is April and you're looking at the feed into these greens you can pop from about 40 yards away it's incredible condition and like I said December the 20th 100 other people playing there today of course be happy now yeah so we've got a phase day competition a proposed competition which is really well and that's on the back of two days that what they're seeing is back on two or three days of quite heavy rain as well yeah so we've had we've had sort of we've had four inches of rain in the last week it's been one of the it's been the wetest spell we we monitor rainfall and we track weather patterns and November was great early part December was great the last week a lot of courses have closed in the area and uh it's fantastic that a lot of the work we've done on the course we're now being able to achieve almost summer standards going through the week going into Christmas yeah yeah yeah it over the last couple of years I mentioned this to Stuart Hogg last week difficult conditions for green maintenance I suppose is it yeah so the last the last 18 months of being some of the most challenging for green keepers in the last 15 years so we've gone from two of the wettest winters can I just make a note that remember that gulf is on yeah yeah yeah i'll be winning and not realizing what it's like so we've gone we've had two of the wettest winters on on record the last the last two winters and then we followed one of the wettest winters on record into one of the driest springs and the hottest summers on record so I think the the the sum that was just right was 1957 right so we are the weather patterns and climate change call what you want is is is changing and we're getting a lot of extremes now so in the in the last 10 years we we are noticing a difference in how the golf course is playing the seasons longer yet so we're having so this year we've we've played summer conditions up until december which would have been on here don't normally people work up on the clubs away in september whereas now sort of notoriously january febru we can get some some bad weather and cold weather so on that basis and whether whether it's uh weather conditions climate change or whatever else how do you see the green keep in role developing or green course maintenance developing in the year they've had to see yet so i think this there's a lot of chemical restrictions now on in the industry with probably rightly obviously we're very environmentally friendly and like to be very ecologically aware so a lot of this you know pesticides that that that could be dangerous in countries they get banned but it just takes weapons away from the green keeper that that can prevent worms and groves and no student mention this as well and uh and and diseases and green so the green keep has to be more educated now they have to be more proactive they have to really on the board because if they're not it's they can get caught up so i think that the green keepers the modern day green keepers are gonna have not that they were in the past but you're gonna have to be really clued up really well educated have really well educated staff yeah and then to move forward and keep to some it's the same you've almost got to manage things differently so uh so change inevitable so yeah so there is a this is sort of now the last year or two is some of the biggest changes in in the industry in the last 50 years but the technology of mowers is ever improving the the machinery is a big one we can get sand out now in the winter time and when it's wet right we can top dress more there's the the machinery the advancements in these machine last five years has been incredible we we've got uh electric mowers coming in next year we're doing some product testing and and they're bringing in some electric mowers and we're running them on the course so it's moving with the times other industry yeah other industries uh engineering and car construction they're using a lot of robots and another machinery and it's only inevitable that these things are going to come across into the golf course management it's not necessarily a way of getting rid of staff but it's stream it's creating a better product and more yeah yeah i mean the question i ask and i thought i've not asked the previous in the previous two uh chats i've had is that what about i maybe not shouldn't be asking green stuff this but what about artificial greens are they ever something that would play a part do you think or that not really yeah well football is already a lot of the investment now the afa making and sport england and and it's probably not it's not the best for the environment but obviously a lot of the kids are coming through now and and all the academies and they're moving to 4g and 3 4g pitchers so that's happened in football now my little boy plays football and he hasn't had the game called off this season he's playing on the latest 4g pitchers you know two years ago every every matching in Liverpool every junior they were called off so it's the cost now to maintain a golf green and and fine fine turf is is huge so for some of these smaller venues and and to get kids into golf yeah it's it's almost that that will be the way the future yeah i can see that i know there's a course in Liverpool at quite a golf centre quite forward thinking they're looking to put a nine hole course in the astro teff greens they've got an astro teff show game area you see a lot of the pros now putting in astro teff greens into the gardens yeah that's almost the way yeah for golf to survive it needs to evolve and and that's the way we need participation to be high for kids and other people so yeah yeah so you think yeah to bring people into the game i think we need to evolve and that will be part of it well one of the things to just have a quick conversation towards at the end of this interview is i've seen i've seen john at a number of major events this year watching from a crowd and joining in with some celebrations as well ride a cup you're at with your pal i think it is yeah yeah so because golf is my hobby and it's up my life i like to go to all these as many events and sort of take part of one of my best friends caddies for tommy fleet wards so i've and i've known tommys in teams eight years you have played against him twice so i've played him a number of times yeah did you beat him yeah i've been to him twice yeah but don't tell him right yeah so yeah so with me close friends and some of my best friends being involved in the golf industry so it's nice to go out and support and be there so you're with the us open of shinacock hills uh the rider cup uh it's the next year i'm at the open uh i was at the last rider cup at glennie hills as well uh i must have been great though so when you go to someone like shinacock hills and you're seeing this obviously you're uh supporting these people but you must be looking at that you probably look at the golf course a bit different than that yeah so a lot of the well i'll tell me why for a lot of the trips are education anyway yeah so uh yeah so that's that's all yeah so that's although i am going to support and it's great to be involved obviously they know my passion and interest is golf courses so it's nice for them to have the friends out and yes to support but i'm also looking to get as much inspiration from these venues and how they operate and how they're structuring the days and how they're setting up so i always try and get involved and find out what's going on behind the scenes and looking at the work people are doing so is it an an al is it a favourite course that you've got or do they do you like certain courses yeah well i mean my favourite course is the old course at st anru sort of for a course to be 600 years old and it's still be relevant it's just yeah it's mind blowing really if you're thinking about it too for st anru to be the first ever true course and for it to still be relevant to this day and still hold open championships yeah that is the blueprint for any other course that's ever been created so tob not to say that is although people may think it's banned and don't like it that is the ultimate because that is the being the blueprint for any other course so i think any leading architect or any any person that is really deep into the golf you can't really look past the old course but obviously i've worked at i've visited 55 of the top 100 courses in the world so i've visited a lot and my favourite course is other than st anru as it's well counted down north and south and so i've been over there and played a number of times and it's just mind blowing yet the condition of the course the the uh the loop that the how it's structured how it plays the right not being there not not so yeah it's a real county down would be my favourite course to play but it would be the old course so you can't look back yeah if i had one course to play here i would go to st anru because every day yeah very not yeah well i'm going to wrap it up there because um and we literally could i've had to trim a few of these questions because we could go on for hours if you see john and very enthusiastic great to listen to very educated in what he does and it's been it's been nice to chat with you really enjoyed it um and any questions comments as ever stick them down below and i'll do me very best to answer and thanks as ever for watching thank you to john yes thank you and i'll see you all very soon