RELIABILITY IS KEY
With an eighteen hole golf course and a 112 bed luxury hotel with extensive conference facilities set in 150 acres of prime estate near Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, Hilton Puckrup Hall has got to be one of the finest Golfing facilities in the West Midlands.
Supporting a membership in excess of 500 and many fee-paying guests and large corporate organisations who are utilising the extensive facilities throughout the year, Course Manager, Richard Jones and his team of six greens staff are kept very busy maintaining the entire gardens, grounds and 18 hole Golf Course in nothing less than perfect condition.
“With so many visitors using these facilities, we really have to be on our game. commented Richard Jones. “we just have to have the most reliable equipment and back-up available because we can’t afford to have breakdowns.”
Richard Jones and his team run mainly John Deere cutting equipment, supplied and backed-up by local John Deere dealer Tallis Amos Group at Hinton-on-the-Green, near Evesham. The dealership has a team of Golf machinery specialists, who are dedicated to professional grounds care sales, aftersales service, maintenance and parts back-up.
“John Deere made their name with reliable, user-friendly tractors, said Richard “and we have a twenty-two year old model 1070 that we use for general duties but it’s still reliable and still going strong and proves the point. But we also use a wide range of cutting equipment including a 2653B Surrounds Mower, 7700 Precision Cut Fairway Mower, and we have some of their latest professional grounds-care models such as the 2500B Greens mower which I really love. It’s so easy to use especially when setting the cutting height. It does an amazing job, but most of all, I am really impressed with the new cutting head unit”. “I totally trust John Deere for their reliability, enthused Richard, “and in the unlikely event of getting a problem or malfunction, I can trust the excellent service I get from Tallis Amos, I just can’t fault them.
They always go out of their way to help if we have an issue and are always at the end of a phone in an emergency. They have a brilliant team of support staff and always maintain a competitive edge. Which is just like the philosophy that we hold here at Hilton Puckrup Hall.”
