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Prime 11 in ALBAS final

Eleven SRUC students and apprentices from a range of subjects and campuses have been selected as finalists in this year’s Awards for Land-based and Aquaculture Skills (the ALBAS).…

SRUC
26/01/2024

Nordic golf – with a snow handicap

Norway isn’t usually associated with golf, but that is where Golf Course Management student Nathan Carmichael has been based for the past 13 years.…

SRUC
04/11/2021

Get the par-fect swing at Elmwood golf coaching sessions

Professional Golf students at SRUC will swap learning for teaching when they lead coaching sessions for children and adults.…

SRUC
07/10/2021

Golfers enjoy fair days on the fairway

Golfers swung into action at Elmwood Golf Course in Fife after Covid-19 restrictions were lifted to allow players back on to the fairway.…

SRUC
04/06/2020

Back to earth

After visiting her sister on Jura last year, Greenkeeping student Laura Sayer-Hall fell in love with the Inner Hebridean island and quit her job to move there full-time.…

SRUC
07/05/2020

Putting Community First

The running of the Oatridge Golf Course at the Scotland’s Rural College at Ecclesmachan, near Uphall in West Lothian, has transferred to the Binny Golf Club.…

SRUC
09/04/2020

Going for green

A review of the Greenkeeping curriculum in the UK and Ireland is one of two SRUC-led projects being funded as part of a £650k initiative.…

SRUC
10/01/2020

Best greenkeeper par none

Former Elmwood Golf Management student Kyle McClung has been named as top student greenkeeper in Scotland.…

SRUC
17/12/2019

African Turf Academy celebrates its Fife roots

The African Turf Academy, which was developed in partnership with Scotland’s Rural College, has been celebrating its ten-fold growth at an international conference.…

SRUC
25/11/2019

Long distance learning

A New Zealand-based greenkeeper is taking distance learning to a whole new level after signing up to study Golf Course Management at Scotland’s Rural College – more than 11,300 miles away.…

SRUC
30/09/2019

Berry big ambitions

When Craig Berry left school, his love of golf led him to study for a National Certificate in Greenkeeping at Scotland’s Rural College.…

SRUC
17/09/2019