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Rounds4Research 2011 nears

March 21, 2011 By
Mark your calendars fro April 10-17 to do some golf shopping for a good cause. Here are the details from the fine folks at the Carolinas: Golf’s great online auction at Rounds4Research.com will run for one week only this year ...

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Turf experts make their NCAA picks

March 16, 2011 By
Great news! SubAir is going to co-sponsor this March Madness Bracket Challenge with us! Thank you SubAir! Here’s the email that just went out to all the subscribers of Golfdom’s e-newsletter Chip Shots: Think you’re the biggest college basketball fan ...

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Hendren’s Hyperbole! Episode 11 — NCAA Tourney and Nick Watney’s $12 million

March 15, 2011 By
Welcome back to Hendren’s Hyperbole! This might be my favorite week of the year. The NCAA tournament starts Thursday! March Madness is unbelievable year after year and once the first Thursday of the tournament rolls around everything else just fades ...

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Fire destroys maintenance facility at FarmLinks

March 11, 2011 By
I just got off the phone with Erle Fairly, president of FarmLinks. He informed me that everyone is fine, no people — staff or fire fighters — were injured during Wednesday morning’s fire at the maintenance facility at FarmLinks GC ...

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The Sharp Park drama makes my head feel like it’s about to explode!

March 11, 2011 By
Editor’s note: The following is the first blog post by new Golfdom contributor Chris Sorrell, superintendent at Eagles Ridge GC in Curwensville, Pa. I just saw a little article on SFGate.com about Sharp Park. It’s a municipal golf course in ...

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Checking in from New England Regional Turf Show

March 10, 2011 By
Golfdom’s Anthony Pioppi is currently up in Providence, R.I., attending the New England Regional Turfgrass Conference & Show. In Tony’s words: It appears to be about the same attendance as last year, maybe down a little. I would say same ...

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