Columns

New issue out the door/STMA here we come

January 15, 2013 By
WHEW! What will the new mag look like? Wait and see! Finally, I can take a deep breath. We just got done with a big issue of Golfdom… it was double the size and double the importance, because it was ...

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BASF forms Specialty Products Department

January 10, 2013 By
News from BASF this morning. The company is taking their turf, pest and vegetation management segments and merging them into one group known as the Specialty Products Department. Jan Buberl will be the director of this group. Brian Lish and ...

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Zombies at GIS???

January 7, 2013 By
I know after a hard night at the GIS, some people walk around the GIS tradeshow floor like they’re zombies. But at this year’s GIS, thanks to FMC, there will be “real” zombies there. BRAINS!!! Here’s the note I got ...

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Navigating the information overload

January 1, 2013 By
With the arrival of the New Year, we always think about things we can change. Here at Golfdom that change is evident with the new look of the magazine. And on a personal note, my profile picture has been updated, ...

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What you can control

January 1, 2013 By
If it’s true that when the going gets tough, the tough get going, then those of us in the golf course maintenance industry haven’t stopped going for the past several years. With the country’s economic woes having a dramatic effect ...

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Assistants need an assist

January 1, 2013 By
I accepted an invitation from Melanie Bonds, executive director of the Alabama GCSA, to be a speaker for a mid-November assistant superintendent boot camp event in Birmingham, Ala. I quickly discovered I had no “silver bullet” solutions for the group of ...

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