The Sports Turf Research Institute - About STRI

STRI is delighted to announce the winners of the Golf Course Environment Awards 2009. These awards recognise the golf courses that have most effectively managed a sustainable programme to support the environment and wildlife. The award winners were chosen from applications from golf courses throughout the UK.

BBC cameras rolled into action at Bingley for an episode of Countryfile. The programme, which was broadcast on October 4th, provided viewers with a fascinating insight into how to create the perfect turf surface for every professional sporting need.

STRI Scotland will be promoting their full range of consultancy services for golf courses and sports grounds from their stand G12 at Scotsturf.

STRI Ltd invites you to an Open Day at Bingley to take a look at some of the work being carried out on compost.

In 2009 STRI began to look at ways to measure greens in an 'objective' way, rather than subjective, and ran a pilot study across 86 golf clubs to work out the best way to do this.

STRI (Sports Turf Research Institute) announced yesterday that we have tendered our resignation as consultants to Wembley, with the company due to depart our current position at the end of June 2010.

As the world's top golfers head for St Andrews they can look forward to facing perfect playing surfaces when they tackle the world famous course thanks to STRI's (Sports Turf Research Institute) groundbreaking Trueness Meter.

New Open Champion Louis Oosthuizen and his caddie Zack Rasego were not the only partnership celebrating on the 18th green of St Andrews last week. The St Andrews Greenkeeping staff, supported by STRI (Sports Turf Research Institute), celebrated a successful Championship

Over 100 greenkeepers, turf managers, agronomists and golf club managers attended the first ever Turf Science Live at the Sports Turf Research Institute (STRI) this week (Tuesday 27 July 2010). The event, which included an innovative approach of live demonstrations of some of the latest developments in turf agronomy, was hailed a great success.

The Aviva Stadium hosts its first action this week (31st July 2010) when the Combined Provinces Rugby Fixture between Leinster & Ulster v Connacht & Munster takes place on the all-new state of the art pitch. STRI worked closely with Populous, the lead architects for the new Aviva Stadium,