Toro acquires Lawn Solutions Commercial Products

News this morning from Toro: The Toro Company today announced it has acquired Lawn Solutions Commercial Products, Inc., a leading manufacturer of innovative turf renovation equipment for the landscape, rental, municipal and golf markets. The acquisition, which includes a dedicated ...

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Do you think you can talk to a blade of grass and get it to grow?

Check out this story by Jay Dempsey from the Riverhead News-Review. Here’s a sound bite: “Ladies and gentlemen, being a golf course superintendent requires the skills of a meteorologist, a farmer, a horticulturist, a public-relations expert, a personnel manager, a ...

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A moment of well-deserved rest for River Highlands crew

On Sunday afternoon of the PGA Tour’s Travelers Championship, while the final group of Fredrik Jacobson, the eventual winner, and Bryce Molder were on the eighth hole, TPC River Highlands head golf course superintendent Tom DeGrandi, first assistant Noel Hall ...

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TPC assistants see big picture

Within the PGA Tour’s Tournament Players Club network is a program that sends assistant superintendents from one facility to another to aid during tournaments of the three tours, PGA, Champions and Nationwide. For this week’s PGA Tour Travelers Championship at ...

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Hall’s week in the irrigation room

For 13 years Noel Hall has been the assistant at TPC River Highlands, site of this week’s PGA Tour stop, the Travelers Championship. He started out on the bottom of the ladder and took five years to work his way ...

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Live from the Traveler’s Championship

This week Golfdom contributing editor Anthony Pioppi is working from the PGA Tour’s Travelers Championship. Tony checks in today with his first report from the course. — S.J. At the 2010 PGA Tour’s Travelers Championship, the story was heat with ...

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