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Conor Nolan BAgrSc (Land Hort), MSc Marketing (Hons)
Turfgrass Agronomist - Ireland & Northern Europe
Conor joined the STRI’s Advisory and Consultancy Team in June 2001 as Turfgrass Agronomist for the Southern-half of Ireland and is one of the golf specialists amongst the team. With the continued growth of golf within Ireland he has offered advice to a wide array of surface types and operations amongst which are some of Irelands leading links destinations.
This year Northern Europe has been added to his area of golf course coverage, a region he is keen to bring his knowledge/expertise to having enjoyed many formative years there prior to joining the STRI. In Europe he predominantly worked in the area of golf course design, construction, grow-ins and regular maintenance in a wide array of countries; Austria, Slovenia, Switzerland, Hungary and the United Arab Emirates. He also took time away from project work to gain hands-on experience of old annual meadowgrass/creeping bent greens management in the demanding New York metropolitan region.
He has a special interest in the aesthetic and ecological development of sites arising out of his time spent as on-site designer working under the strict environmental requirements of the Austrian and Swiss authorities.
Conor is a graduate of University College Dublin with a degree in Agricultural Science specialising in Landscape Horticulture and also obtained a Masters degree in Marketing at the Dublin Institute of Technology. He has played Senior Cup for both club (Greystones Golf Club) and university, and he remains an active soccer player. Outside of work he is passionate about golf swing analysis, contemporary landscape design and is a regular attendee at Leinster rugby matches. Working with the Institute has fulfilled many teenage ambitions to walk out onto premier stadia, with auger in hand!!!
Included among his Irish clients are Connemara GC, Cork GC, Dooks GC, Douglas GC, Dun Laoghaire GC New, Elm Park GC, Killarney Golf and Fishing Club, Kilkenny GC, Lahinch GC, Seafield G&CC, Tralee GC, Tramore GC, Leopardstown Racecourse, Old Belvedere RUFC, Home Farm FC and Kenilworth Bowling Club
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