Aqua-Aid penetrate the European market
Over the past two-years Aqua-Aid has had phenomenal success in breaking into the European Golf market, thanks to the unrivalled performance of soil enhancing products such as the new 3Dimensional Oars PS and HS range, Verde-Cal, the new, and Worm Power.
A major factor in this achievement is the combination of new scientific developments resulting in highly sophisticated products to improve soil conditions for healthy plant growth, and a renewed understanding of the importance of plant available calcium in the soil. Alongside this is the expertise that accompanies these products and a strategy to inform turf professionals through seminars of the exciting changes to greens care in Europe and the US.
With over 30 years’ experience in lawn care, landscape, golf, manufacturing and the sales industry between them, Jim Miller of Aqua-Aid USA and Hans De Kort from Aqua-Aid Europe (pictured above) presented the latest facts to 250 greenkeepers in four days across Spain, Belgium and The Netherlands at seminars such as the one held at the Millennium Club, in Antwerp in March of this year.
Hosted jointly by the Belgium and Dutch Greenkeepers Associations it was attended by over 120 top greenkeepers from golf clubs across Belgium and The Netherlands. Other similar seminars have since been held in Sweden and the United Kingdom, explaining how Aqua-Aid tackles drainage, compaction and aeration issues through precisely targeted soil management.
A number of high profile European golf courses that use products in the Aqua-Aid range including “The Kennemer” and “The Dutch” both host for the KLM Dutch open; La Fregate in Marseille, France, St. Leon-Rot & Gut Kaden in Germany, Portmarnock, Dunmurry, Portlaoise & Waterville in Ireland, and many more in Spain and other EU countries, have already seen the vast benefits to their courses, including improved drainage/reduced black layer, firmer playing surfaces, and over all healthier soil plus a reduced maintenance cost.
Niall Richardson, Irish greenkeeper and golf course superintendent at Netherlands based The Dutch Golf Club (which this year hosts the KLM Dutch Open), has been using both 3D Oars PS – penetrating surfactant – and 3D Oars HS – hydrating surfactant – on the course, with outstanding results.
The success of the product comes from the patented multi-branch technology. Both Oars HS and PS control soil water repellency while providing uniform soil moisture, with the former ensuring increased moisture retention, and the latter providing uniform soil moisture for a longer period of time.
The success on the newly improved Oars products has been followed by the Verde-Cal range, with the unparalleled effectiveness of Verde-Cal and Verde-Cal G being seen by every greenkeeper who has used it.
This is largely down to the sophisticated nature of both products and the time spent developing them, be it concentrating on the positive effects of calcium on soil with Verde-Cal, or the difference gypsum can have against black layer and improving drainage using Verde-Cal G.