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Smithco celebrates 50 years of improving turf maintenance

July 19, 2017 By Katy Ibsen

For Ted Smith, founder of Pennsylvania-based Smithco, his greatest ideas came from the field. Of course, Ted’s proverbial “field” could be defined as many locales, but none more important than along the fairway. Here he would envision machinery that would ...

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Where a full house always wins

July 17, 2017 By Seth Jones

Forget the royal flushes, Rhodes Ranch Golf Club in Las Vegas goes all in on a packed tee sheet. Roy Smith, general manager at Rhodes Ranch Golf Club in Las Vegas, remembers playing the course he now manages some six ...

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Focused on Labor

July 7, 2017 By Seth Jones and Grant Gannon

Superintendents across the country shed light on the biggest problem in golf maintenance — a lack of labor. When he’s not at work, Robert Guerra is comfortable in a cowboy hat and cowboy boots. The superintendent at Reunion Resort in ...

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Turf Rx

July 5, 2017 By Jesse Trcka

In prescription turf management, you’re the pharmacist. Many tools of our trade have their roots in agriculture. Things like drainage, seeders, fertilizer spreaders and sprayer technology have been influenced by the agricultural industry. Most of these tools started off as ...

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The 19th Hole: Mark Semm

June 30, 2017 By Seth Jones

Mark Semm Superintendent // The Clubs of Cordillera Ranch, Boerne, Texas Mark, wait… you went to Iowa State? I transferred (to ISU) in ’96, graduated in ’98. I started out in Minnesota, played some basketball there… I decided I wasn’t ...

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Golfdom Gallery: June 2017

June 26, 2017 By Kelly Limpert

1. Betting $5 bills on No. 17 Watching a Wednesday practice round at The Players Championship, TPC Sawgrass, made for a friendly game of “Guess Who’s Closest to the Pin” between Golfdom EIC Seth Jones (left) and Golfdom Group Publisher ...

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