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SOI 2017: Fairway rolling gains traction

December 18, 2017 By Grant Gannon

Rolling fairways is still an alternative practice, but is gaining momentum in the industry. When the membership at the Wykagyl Country Club, New Rochelle, N.Y., demanded firmer playing surfaces, Superintendent Dan Rogers decided to roll out a new idea. “The ...

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State of the Industry: Predicting golf’s future in 2018 and beyond

December 15, 2017 By Kelly Limpert

Industry pundits predict — and indicators point to — a gradual increase in golf’s bottom line for 2018 and beyond. In September and November of this year, we surveyed Golfdom readers, asking for their opinions on the state of the ...

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Monarch (butterflies) of the links

December 1, 2017 By Renee J. Keese, Ph.D.

Monarch butterfly populations have been declining in the United States since the late 1990s. One of many factors contributing to the decline is the shrinking number of milkweed plants, which are critical to their reproduction cycle. The monarch migration starts ...

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Photos: Stoatin Brae Golf Club (4,5), Dave Richards (1,3) Nile Young (2)

A golf course waiting to happen

November 27, 2017 By Chris Lewis

Although Stoatin Brae Golf Club opened just this year, its natural characteristics are reminiscent of an old Scottish links course, and its superintendent plans to keep it that way. As Jon Scott, owner and president of Augusta, Mich.’s Gull Lake ...

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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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Golfdom Gallery: 2017 Presidents Cup edition

November 10, 2017 By Kelly Limpert

1. Cruisin’ Liberty National Former Liberty National Golf Club interns Ryan Martin (left) of Indian Valley CC, Telford, Pa., and Blaine Knox, Palm Meadows GC, Carrara, Australia, were two of the dozens of former LNGC employees to come back to ...

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