Golfers at the upcoming Open Championship will face a Royal Birkdale course that has been lengthened and altered since Mark O'Meara's victory there ten years ago.

With some of the most radical shaping seen on a golf course, achieving good grass coverage on the newly-opened Castle course in St Andrews was a challenge for the construction and grow-in team.

Syngenta has expanded the scope of the UK and Ireland version of its Greencast Web service for greenkeepers and turf managers.

Richard Goodale travels the byways of Ireland in search of the legacy of the country's most important golf designer.

All golfers know of the Old Course but only a lucky few people actually visit St Andrews and play it.