My Ali collection
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 ...Read More
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Saturday morning at the Dean & DeLuca Invitational
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 ...Read More
Giving new life to an old bird
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 ...Read More
Is El Niño a boom or a bust?
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 ...Read More
The Golfdom Files: Converting to the metric system
In the June 2015 Golfdom, Karl Danneberger, Ph.D., highlighted a trip he took to Egypt and described golf course maintenance in that country. While there, he noted that some local superintendents use the English metric system, learned from U.S. superintendents ...Read More
Grass times at Turfmont High
I recently had the opportunity to speak to a high school class about a career in golf course maintenance. It was a turf and horticulture class, so most of the students were interested in green industry careers. Given the current ...Read More