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What Trump’s presidency means for the golf industry

January 3, 2017 By Seth Jones

Surprising all the pundits, Donald Trump has won the presidency. What does having a multi-course owner in the White House mean for the industry? Election Day 2016, Hillary Clinton versus Donald Trump. The polls all showed the White House would ...

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Jonesy’s Top 5 photos of 2016

December 29, 2016 By Seth Jones

I see a lot of golf courses in a given year. Sometimes I have the camera out, sometimes I’m focused on the experience and leave it in the rental car. Looking through my photos for our December 2016 year-in-review cover ...

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Photos: Trump: robert beck/sports illustrated/getty images, Seth Jones

How big was 2016?

December 15, 2016 By Ken Moum

Donald Trump may have made the most headlines, but he was just one part of a strange yet fascinating golf year. Additional commentary by Seth Jones and Matt Neff in italics Strange weather, strange rulings and a strange election… 2016 ...

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Welcome to the 2016 Golfdom Summit

December 7, 2016 By Grant Gannon

We’ve been down at Reunion Resort for the 2016 Golfdom Summit for almost 24 hours now, and we have already had a great time. Yesterday we checked in our superintendent and sponsor guests throughout the day, and then we held a ...

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2016 Golfdom Summit headlined by Ted Bishop

December 5, 2016 By Grant Gannon

The 2016 Golfdom Summit will feature a former president as the keynote speaker of the event. No, it’s not a Clinton or a Bush. Golfdom is excited to announce that the sixth annual Golfdom Summit keynote speaker, sponsored by Cushman, will be ...

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Dr. basidiomycetes or: How I learned to stop fairy ring

December 1, 2016 By Mike Fidanza, Ph.D.

Fairy ring symptoms observed on greens, tees, fairways and roughs are not caused by magical faeries, but we have to blame someone or something for the destructive nature of this disease complex (Figure 1). Figure 1: Classic example of fairy ...

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