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The future of resistance management

June 22, 2018 By Chris Lewis

Resistance management, arguably, has never been a more important issue for superintendents in every region of the United States. After all, fewer and fewer new fungicide chemistries are now being produced for the turfgrass market, and this trend is expected ...

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Shinnecock Hills GC Photos: USGA/John Mummert (1, 2, 4); Seth Jones (3)

An inside look at Shinnecock Hills GC

June 11, 2018 By Seth Jones

Jon Jennings is on a streak The two-time Boston Marathon qualifier (2005, 2006) has run every day since Jan. 1, 2015. That’s a streak of 1,566 straight days and counting. He runs at least a mile a day, sometimes 6 ...

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Photos: Kasey Kauff (1, 2, 4); Seth Jones (3); Andy Johnson (5)

Living off the land(fill): A look at Trinity Forest GC’s origins

June 1, 2018 By Philip Hall

Golf courses developed atop former landfills, once a novelty, today are fairly commonplace, though the construction and subsequent maintenance of these courses is as varied as the trash heaps on which they sit. Public exposure to this genre may never ...

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Photos: Jason Haines (1); Micah Woods (2, 3)

Insights from Great White North

May 29, 2018 By Joe Gulotti

The last time I visited Canada was in 1992 to see the Grateful Dead at the Copps Coliseum in Hamilton, Ontario. I haven’t had a legit reason to go see our great neighbors to the north until I heard about ...

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A new index for sodicity risk assessment of irrigation water

May 22, 2018 By Qiyu Zhou, Douglas Soldat, Ph.D. and William Bleam, Ph.D.

Golf courses with poor quality irrigation water must worry about sodium accumulation in soil. Sodium adsorption ratio (SAR) is the primary criterion of estimating sodium hazard of irrigation waters. However, SAR has been shown to underestimate the risk of sodium ...

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The 19th Hole: Mike Poch

May 18, 2018 By Seth Jones

Mike Poch Superintendent // Foxborough CC, Foxboro, Mass. What are you drinking? I’m not sure what this is. It’s the “import.” I think it’s a Blue Moon. They gave me an orange. So, I caught you on your first trip ...

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