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Alan Brown shares how he handled a hurricane a week before hosting a pro tournament Posted on 05 Oct 2023 in the Featured & From the Magazine & Tour Guide categories.

Hurricane Ian hit Timuquana CC late September 2022, just a week before the PGA Champions Tour event, Constellation Furyk & Friends. Read more»

Pinnacle CC’s Chase Turpin on hosting the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship since its inception Posted on 28 Sep 2023 in the Featured & From the Magazine & Tour Guide categories.

Turpin began his tenure at Pinnacle in 2006, and the following year he and the team welcomed the well-known tournament to the course. Read more»

Former golf course architecture student, Kyle Harrigan, shares how he went from designing courses to maintaining them Posted on 13 Sep 2023 in the Featured & From the Magazine & Tour Guide categories.

Kyle Harrigan, director of golf course maintenance at Silverado Resort and Spa, shares his journey to hosting the Fortinet Championship. Read more»

A golf business for a golf family Posted on 17 Oct 2018 in the Featured & People categories.

In July, Florida-based companies Global Turf Equipment and Turf Equipment Rental merged into a single entity under new ownership, GTE Partners, LLC. This acquisition, however, is unlike most. For one Read more»

Behind the scenes of Oregon’s The Reserve bunker renovation Posted on 10 Apr 2018 in the Maintenance categories.

Golf course architect John Fought speaks fondly of The Reserve Vineyards and Golf Club in Hillsboro, a suburb of Portland, Ore. “The Reserve was one of my first — probably Read more»

Smithco celebrates 50 years of improving turf maintenance Posted on 19 Jul 2017 in the Columns & Featured categories.

For Ted Smith, founder of Pennsylvania-based Smithco, his greatest ideas came from the field. Of course, Ted’s proverbial “field” could be defined as many locales, but none more important than Read more»