Independent agronomy consultancy for golf courses, football pitches and prestige landscapes — performance-driven advice built on two decades of hands-on superintendent experience.
HNC in Golf Course Maintenance from Elmwood College in St Andrews, Scotland, and turf management studies at the University of Guelph, Canada — irrigation, course design & construction, soil science.
More than a decade as Chairman of the Bulgarian Golf Greenkeepers Association and board member of FEGGA, the European federation — current with the industry through BTME (UK) and GIS (USA) every year.
Maintenance managed as an investment, not a cost centre: decisions based on data and measurable effect — never on tradition, habit or supplier interest.
Fully independent — no product commissions, no supplier bias. Clear written reports, practical recommendations, and a collaborative approach with your in-house team and contractors.
For member-owned clubs, resorts and tournament venues.
For professional and semi-professional clubs and academies.
For high-profile private estates, hotels and landscapes.
Sports turf maintenance is one of the largest operating costs of any golf course or sports complex — yet it is often run on inertia: tradition, habit and reaction to problems. My role is to turn maintenance from an expense into a managed investment with measurable effect.
None of this is how I work — it is what an audit uncovers. These habits quietly drain more maintenance budget than any single line item:
The costly habit"We always do it at this time" — regardless of what the surface actually needs.
The costly habitInvesting in a product or technology with no baseline to compare against.
The costly habitActing after a problem appears instead of preventing it strategically.
The costly habitSpend justified by tradition rather than by return.
Decisions based on data and analysis, not subjective judgement. Baselines first, so every intervention can prove its effect.
The same operation can have double the effect at the right moment — and almost none at the wrong one.
Focus on the interventions that reduce future costs and risks, not the ones that merely look busy.
Diagnostics and rapid optimisation — find the leaks, fix the timing, set the baselines.
Structural improvement — programmes, budgets and team practices rebuilt around measurable return.
Long-term transformation — a surface, a team and a budget that perform predictably, season after season.
No one knows everything — and I don't claim to. On complex or specialised cases I work in partnership with established specialists across Europe and the USA: leading university and research groups, internationally recognised sports-surface experts, and best practice exchanged with top golf courses and sports venues. An extra layer of assurance behind every strategic decision.
Instead of more activity — more effect. Instead of experiments — measurable results. Instead of cost — return.
Independent second opinions, budget justification and long-term agronomic masterplans you can defend to members and owners.
Event preparation and conditioning programmes that peak on the right week, to professional tour standards.
Pitch audits, recovery planning and hybrid advisory for stadiums, training grounds and academies.
Turf and soil health programmes where presentation and visual quality carry the brand.
Not a career of advising from a distance — a career of running the surfaces myself, under budgets, weather and expectations.
Championship golfThirteen years running Bulgaria's 18-hole Peter Harradine championship course — with driving range, short-game area, three football pitches and the resort's hotel landscape under the same budget, team and standards.
GolfFive formative years helping manage one of Bulgaria's pioneering golf developments — building maintenance standards and a professional greenkeeping culture in a young golf market.
InternationalTwo seasons on a high-altitude American mountain course — where the US school of greenkeeping set the working standards I still hold surfaces to today.
I have spent more than twenty years with my hands in turf — starting as a seasonal greenkeeper on a mountain course in Vail, Colorado, and finishing thirteen years as superintendent of Bulgaria's Peter Harradine championship course at Pravets, before founding Turf Vision to advise clubs, venues and estates independently.
Alongside the day job I have spent over a decade as Chairman of the Bulgarian Golf Greenkeepers Association and serve on the board of FEGGA, the European federation — which keeps me connected to the people and science shaping this profession, from Harrogate to the US Golf Industry Show, every single year.
What I bring to your venue is not theory. It is two decades of managing turf under pressure — budgets, staff, tournaments, weather — and an honest, independent opinion, even when it is not the one you were hoping to hear.
Tell me about your venue and what is bothering you about it.
