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Superintendent Kingdom

January 24, 2017 By
It takes a certain amount of preparation to make it through the wild that is the Golf Industry Show. Let us be your guide through this year’s trade show safari. Disney has its Animal Kingdom theme park, which features attractions ...

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Photos: GIE+EXPO, Seth Jones, American Landmaster, Turfco

What’s new at GIE+EXPO

January 13, 2017 By
From products that help save the earth to products that help save money — it was all at the 2016 GIE+Expo show. After a one-year break (or maybe ban, who’s to say?), I made my return to the Green Industry ...

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Photo credit: Tord Sollie via Foter.com / CC BY-NC-ND

Politics & Golf, or how I helped elect a Clinton

January 6, 2017 By
It was 1992. “Drug-Free Workplace” was the catch phrase. Space shuttles still flew. The Dow was at 3,200 and gold was $345/oz. Bill Clinton and Al Gore were running against President George “41” Bush and Dan Quayle. Look it up, ...

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White House. Photo: iStock.com / Thomas Wachs

What Trump’s presidency means for the golf industry

January 3, 2017 By
Surprising all the pundits, Donald Trump has won the presidency. What does having a multi-course owner in the White House mean for the industry? Election Day 2016, Hillary Clinton versus Donald Trump. The polls all showed the White House would ...

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Photos: Golfdom

Jonesy’s Top 5 photos of 2016 

December 29, 2016 By
I see a lot of golf courses in a given year. Sometimes I have the camera out, sometimes I’m focused on the experience and leave it in the rental car. Looking through my photos for our December 2016 year-in-review cover ...

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Photos: Trump: robert beck/sports illustrated/getty images, Seth Jones

How big was 2016?

December 15, 2016 By
Donald Trump may have made the most headlines, but he was just one part of a strange yet fascinating golf year. Additional commentary by Seth Jones and Matt Neff in italics Strange weather, strange rulings and a strange election… 2016 ...

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