Columns

SOI: Superintendents, executives enthusiastic for ’18

December 14, 2017 By Seth Jones, Grant Gannon and Chris Lewis

Golf faces many challenges, but core golfers still are passionate about the game. Attendees of the 2017 Carolinas GCSA Conference and Show will just have to accept Executive Director Tim Kreger’s apologies if it took a little longer to find ...

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SOI 2017: Taking creative courses

December 5, 2017 By Chris Lewis

Superintendents continue to look at practical places to lessen labor and inputs. Because Sarasota’s TPC Prestancia is located within a residential community, its course maintenance staff can’t reduce turf as much as it would prefer, as homeowners would rather have ...

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Tips for building a stronger core

November 20, 2017 By Kelly Limpert

As the author has learned, a ‘next man up’ mentality in the maintenance building is an insurance policy in which courses should invest. Nothing dooms a golf course to obscurity more than the absence of a long-term, stable core of ...

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Bring autumn color to turf

November 9, 2017 By Karl Danneberger, Ph.D.

Autumn is the best time to work on a golf course. The days are shorter, the mornings cooler, the air clear. The colors on a course are the most striking. The green turf contrasts strikingly with the changing leaves of ...

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A column about a lousy title

November 9, 2017 By Joe Gulotti

A little over a decade ago, I was out with friends on a Friday evening unwinding from a hell week of keeping greens. It began innocently enough with just a few beers, then rapidly morphed into full-on rage mode as ...

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In the garage, where I belong

November 9, 2017 By Seth Jones

Greetings from northeast Kansas, where we’re happy to talk about Kansas City Chiefs football so we can pretend that Kansas University football isn’t a real thing. Youth soccer season finally has ended, and now my 6-year-old boy wants me to ...

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