Maintenance

Golf course photo (Photo: Jeff VerCautren)

Using your 6 senses on the golf course

June 20, 2019 By and
The other day, I was following our train of operators on the way out to their morning assignments. During my travels, I was overwhelmed by the dreaded smell of fuel leaking from something. I immediately radioed my assistants and mechanics ...

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Review of 2018: Problematic diseases and fungicide efficacy testing

June 7, 2019 By
Weather in the 2018 growing season varied widely by region. The Midwest and parts of the western United States were dry throughout most of the summer and into the fall. Meanwhile, the eastern U.S. saw one of the wettest years ...

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Golfdom Files: Moose Run rolls with quake, then has its biggest year

June 5, 2019 By
Devastation! Destruction! Mass chaos! Those are the headlines you’d expect to see when reading an article about a golf course hit by a massive earthquake. Somehow, when a 9.2-magnitude earthquake rocked southeastern Alaska on March 27, 1964, Moose Run Golf ...

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The mystery behind the missing left glove

June 3, 2019 By
In October, I found myself once again digging through the two compartments of my golf cart. I lift up the seat to look in the battery compartment, hoping to find what I’m looking for. I take one last hopeful look ...

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Jack Holt (Photo: Joann Dost)

Pebble Beach personalities

May 23, 2019 By
Steven Spatafore Assistant-in-Training It’s fair to say the 2008 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am changed the life of then-12-year-old Steven Spatafore. Not because he had a chance encounter with Kevin Costner, Ray Romano or Kevin James. Huey Lewis could have walked ...

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Chris Dalhamer, CGCS, is director of golf course maintenance for all four courses at Pebble Beach Resorts: Pebble Beach, Spyglass Hill, the Links at Spanish Bay and Del Monte Golf Course. (Photo: Joann Dost)

100 never looked so good at Pebble Beach Golf Links

May 21, 2019 By
It’s been nine years since Pebble Beach Golf Links hosted the U.S. Open, but somehow it doesn’t seem so long ago. Time flies in Pebble Beach, Calif., something to which longtime assistant superintendent Jack Holt can attest. “It’s been 38 ...

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