Archive for December 2010

GCSAA 2011 plan and budget

December 30, 2010 By
Jim Fitzroy, CGCS, president of GCSAA, just sent out a tome of an email regarding the 2011 GCSAA plan and budget. The entirety of that email is below. Look for Golfdom to be covering much of what Jim talks about ...

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Miller talks end of LPGA agronomist, beginning of field staff

December 29, 2010 By
I’ve had the good fortune of knowing John Miller, CGCS, soon-to-be former GCSAA LPGA staff agronomist, for a few years now. I even had the pleasure of shadowing him while he was on the job at the 2008 Kraft Nabisco ...

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Leach says woman sat in 35-degree water for two hours

December 28, 2010 By
So much for a slow Monday after Christmas, Greg Leach, assistant superintendent at Lubbock (Texas) CC, said. Leach arrived at the course around 7 a.m. and was enjoying what he called a “slow Monday after Christmas” at the course when ...

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Assistant super rescues woman from pond

December 28, 2010 By
Greg Leach, assistant superintendent at Lubbock (Texas) CC, made the news by rescuing a woman from a vehicle crashed into a course pond. “First I thought she was dead,” Leach told KCBD News in Lubbock. http://www.kcbd.com/Global/story.asp?S=13745340 ...

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Tragic news out of Texas A&M

December 27, 2010 By
Dr. J. Chris Stiegler, assistant professor of turfgrass science and ecology at Texas A&M, and his wife, Jenny, both died in a car wreck on Christmas Eve near Waco, Texas. Their infant daughter Emily has been upgraded from critical to ...

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Happy holidays from your friends at Golfdom!

December 22, 2010 By
Hi everyone! In case you haven’t heard yet, there’s a new editor-in-chief of Golfdom magazine… and yeah, it’s that guy sitting on the couch wearing the Chiefs jersey right there… that’s me, Seth Jones. (GO CHIEFS!!!) I’m excited to be ...

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