Archive for April 2017

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Assist the assistants

April 27, 2017 By Seth Jones

The path to promotion is longer than ever for assistant superintendents. Is it time to rethink the hours they work and the pay they receive? Kris Negley takes his job seriously as senior assistant superintendent at the Clubs of Cordillera ...

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PBI-Gordon adds to its marketing team

April 26, 2017 By Golfdom Staff

PBI-Gordon hired Jay Young as herbicide product manager on its marketing team. Young will be responsible for planning, developing and directing product strategies and marketing programs for the company’s herbicide brands. Young brings almost 20 years of experience in the ...

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Learning about the GreenKeeperApp.com

April 26, 2017 By Golfdom staff

To help get his research findings into the hands of superintendents, Bill Kreuser, Ph.D., a turfgrass scientist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and his colleagues at UNL developed GreenKeeperApp.com. Spoiler: GreenKeeperApp.com is a website, not an app. ...

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Turfco: Torrent 2 Blower

April 26, 2017 By Golfdom Sponsor

Turfco’s Torrent 2 blower takes the guesswork out of golf course debris cleanup. Patent-pending MagnaPoint Technology allows operators to get the most productive blower angle every time with adjustable magnetic stops and the industry’s fastest 360-degree nozzle rotation. Courses look ...

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How to keep up with all the happenings on National Golf Day 2017

April 25, 2017 By Golfdom Staff

We Are Golf, a coalition of golf’s leading organizations, will host its 10th annual National Golf Day on Wednesday, April 26 on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. To celebrate National Golf Day’s 10th anniversary, golf industry leaders will meet with ...

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Rules of Golf update: Video review to be limited