Maintenance

New stuff from GIS show floor

March 15, 2017 By Kelly Limpert

If an airless wheel seems futuristic, wait until you see these products. While traversing the Golf Industry Show trade show floor, we kept a lookout for the next new — and unusual — products that could help readers make their ...

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Cave photo courtesy: Dave Bunnell, Under Earth Images, All other photos by curt Harler.

In-tents course management

November 1, 2016 By Curt Harler

It’s a unique golf course that allows tent camping on its fairways. What kind of a management team actually invites campers to bed down for a week on the course? “I’m hanging my butt out,” acknowledged Randy Long, superintendent at ...

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Drones, data and turf maintenance

October 4, 2016 By David McPherson

The old adage “A picture is worth a thousand words” is a refrain to which golf course superintendents subscribe. Photographs help turfgrass managers explain agronomic and maintenance programs to members and sell renovation and capital improvement projects to boards of ...

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Are autonomous mowers the solution to the labor crisis?

September 21, 2016 By Dillon Stewart

Autonomous mowers will provide the golf maintenance industry relief from its labor crisis. The question is when. It isn’t just that good help is hard to find these days. It’s also hard to afford. Case in point, Jeff Miller, superintendent ...

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Reverse the course: North America’s first 18-hole reversible course set to open

June 29, 2016 By Chris Lewis

Forest Dunes Golf Club’s agronomy crew is preparing for the opening of North America’s first 18-hole reversible course. For more than 20 years, golf course architect Tom Doak has envisioned a golfing concept so unique and so rare that it ...

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Talking Oakmont partnership and new technologies with BASF

June 16, 2016 By Kelly Limpert

Golfdom caught up with Brian Thompson, Jeff Vannoy and Scott Waltz at the U.S. Open this week. The trio discusses how the company is helping Oakmont look its best, and how superintendents are enjoying their new technologies, including Xzemplar and ...

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