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Zimmers to crew: You’re the best in the world

June 14, 2016 By Seth Jones

The crew here at Oakmont is 50 strong. For the U.S. Open, another 140 volunteers are here to help out. Many are over-qualified for the jobs they’re on, but they just want to lend a hand. It’s a who’s who of ...

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2016 U.S. Open Day 1

June 13, 2016 By Seth Jones

Here are a bunch of photos from Sunday and a few from Monday, of the 2016 U.S. Open maintenance team at work. I’ll get in here with captions as needed as soon as things settle down… Photos: ...

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My Ali collection

June 6, 2016 By Seth Jones

It might surprise you, but I’ve never worked on a typewriter. I graduated high school in 1996. As I type this, I’m 39 years and two months young. It’s not rare for people to ask me about some athlete, or ...

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Saturday morning at the Dean & DeLuca Invitational

May 28, 2016 By Seth Jones

I’m here at the Dean & DeLuca Invitational in Fort Worth, Texas. Yeah, the name takes some getting used to, but it’s still the same great course, same great crew: Colonial CC, AKA Hogan’s Alley, led by Scott Ebers, CGCS and ...

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Giving new life to an old bird

May 25, 2016 By Grant Gannon

A needed update on the Heron Course, along with some creative communications, makes this course soar above its counterpart at the Oaks Club in Florida. Before reconstruction work began at The Oaks Club, Osprey, Fla., architect Jason Straka of Fry/Straka ...

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Photo credit: Nemo's great uncle via Foter.com / CC BY-NC-SA

Is El Niño a boom or a bust?

May 18, 2016 By Joel Jackson

California ranks No. 2 nationally in total number of U.S. golf courses, behind No. 1 Florida. After the recent multi-year drought, which sparked mandatory water restrictions to all sectors of water users from homeowners to the agriculture industry, the 2016 ...

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