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Hendren’s Hyperbole! Episode 1 — Fantasy versus Reality

January 4, 2011 By
Editor’s note: Beginning with this installment, the Golfdom blog will feature a regular column from Matt Hendren, a superintendent for the city of Kansas City, Kan., and all-around golf nut. Welcome to the inaugural entry to Hendren’s Hyperbole! This will ...

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Cloud, Pavlasek named GCSAA field staff

January 4, 2011 By
Congrats to Brian Cloud of Cloud Golf Services and Richard Pavlasek, CGCS, for being named GCSAA’s newest field staff reps. Cloud will serve the South Central region (Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, New Mexico and Louisiana) while Pavlasek gets the sweet, sweet ...

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Fort Collins super earns DSA

January 3, 2011 By
Congrats to Grant Yaklich (pictured), Fort Collins (Colo.) CC superintendent, who was presented the Rocky Mountain Regional Turfgrass Association’s 2010 Distinguished Service Award at its annual conference and trade show in Denver recently. A former president of the RMRTA, Yaklich ...

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GCSAA 2011 plan and budget

December 30, 2010 By
Jim Fitzroy, CGCS, president of GCSAA, just sent out a tome of an email regarding the 2011 GCSAA plan and budget. The entirety of that email is below. Look for Golfdom to be covering much of what Jim talks about ...

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Miller talks end of LPGA agronomist, beginning of field staff

December 29, 2010 By
I’ve had the good fortune of knowing John Miller, CGCS, soon-to-be former GCSAA LPGA staff agronomist, for a few years now. I even had the pleasure of shadowing him while he was on the job at the 2008 Kraft Nabisco ...

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Leach says woman sat in 35-degree water for two hours

December 28, 2010 By
So much for a slow Monday after Christmas, Greg Leach, assistant superintendent at Lubbock (Texas) CC, said. Leach arrived at the course around 7 a.m. and was enjoying what he called a “slow Monday after Christmas” at the course when ...

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