2016 U.S. Open Day 1
Here are a bunch of photos from Sunday and a few from Monday, of the 2016 U.S. Open maintenance team at work. I’ll get in here with captions as needed as soon as things settle down… Photos: ...Read More
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2016 U.S. Open Preview: What’s old is new again
Back again at legendary Oakmont, the U.S. Open returns (for a record ninth time!) to a course that would look familiar to architect Henry Fownes. Oh, it’s on now. After two U.S. Opens celebrated for experimentation, the 2016 U.S. Open ...Read More
My Ali collection
It might surprise you, but I’ve never worked on a typewriter. I graduated high school in 1996. As I type this, I’m 39 years and two months young. It’s not rare for people to ask me about some athlete, or ...Read More
Being proactive on protozoa
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 ...Read More
Saturday morning at the Dean & DeLuca Invitational
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 ...Read More
Low-input fairway species for the cool-humid region
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 ...Read More