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Being proactive on protozoa

June 2, 2016 By Chip Howard, Ph.D.

A superintendent who hasn’t encountered protozoa-related sprinkler head plugging can count his or her blessings. I may have been the first to encounter the problem in 1986, when my employer wanted to pioneer the use of effluent for golf course ...

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Saturday morning at the Dean & DeLuca Invitational

May 28, 2016 By Seth Jones

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 ...

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Low-input fairway species for the cool-humid region

May 27, 2016 By Cale A. Bigelow, Ph.D.

The availability of water to properly maintain turf is one of the biggest resource challenges superintendents presently face, and it will present additional challenges for decades. Further, as superintendents evaluate their budgets and maintenance programs to save money, grasses that ...

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Giving new life to an old bird

May 25, 2016 By Grant Gannon

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 ...

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Career tips: 7 apps to keep you organized

May 20, 2016 By Kelly Limpert

Quick, who is the current director of the FBI? If your first instinct was to grab your smartphone, you’re not alone. An almost unfathomable amount of knowledge can be accessed from our handheld devices, and yet, what do many people ...

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Is El Niño a boom or a bust?

May 18, 2016 By Joel Jackson

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 ...

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