 St Ives greens | |
| Formation | 1929 |
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| Founded at | Bingley St Ives |
| Headquarters | Bingley St Ives |
| Coordinates | 53°50′51″N1°51′28″W / 53.8475°N 1.8577°W /53.8475; -1.8577 |
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) | Mark Godfrey[1] |
| Staff | 75 (2013) |
| Website | strigroup |
STRI, formerly theSports Turf Research Institute researches, advises, constructs and maintainsturf andartificial sports surfaces.
It is headquartered at a 10 hectares (25 acres) research site[2] on theSt Ives Estate nearBingley, UK and has research and design hubs in Qatar, and at the Redlands Research Station inQueensland, Australia.[3][4] In 2019, STRI opened an office in Hong Kong.[5]
STRI have contributed to the:-
STRI was established in 1929 with financial support fromThe Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews.[2] It rented rooms in the mansion at St Ives, before moving into new buildings on the estate.[8]
In June 1961,Prince Philip became patron of the Institute.[9]
From 2014 to 2018, STRI assisted theCommonwealth War Graves Commission on turf related matters for theFirst World War centenary.[3]
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