The life of a sports turf agronomist is often challenging, usually varied and always interesting. When I started working for myself as an independent consultant in August 2005, I had thought that the majority of my work would be in golf. This turned out not to be the case and it was, in fact, football and winter games, in particular the carrying out of feasibility studies and the preparation of specifications for new pitch constructions, that provided most of my income during those early years.

Since then, there has been a certain amount of ebb and flow among the various types of work undertaken and, as I write this, almost ten years later, there appears to be a rise in the amount of golf work we are doing, whilst winter games, on natural turf at least, may be diminishing.

via Natural Turf Golf Greens – Are they on their way out? | Pitchcare Magazine.