Maintenance

Victim or Victor: What are online tee times doing for your course?

October 15, 2015 By Grant Gannon

Trying to learn from the hotel industry, golf grapples to make third-party online tee time websites work for them. They go by many names, are run by companies big and small and reach U.S. golf courses in states from the ...

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At the heart of it all: Executing a pump station renovation

October 15, 2015 By Anthony Williams

By Bob Scott, ASIC, CID, CLIA and Anthony Williams, CGCS, CGM Renovation projects are a part of any golf facility’s long-term planning and success. Some renovations are simple, some complex, and all are as diverse as golf courses themselves. When ...

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Golfdom Gallery: September 2015

September 23, 2015 By Joelle Harms

PGA Championship Edition 1. Atypical tourist The privilege, nay, the honor, of planting the flags before Thursday morning’s round was bestowed upon John Reid, assistant greenkeeper of The Duke’s, St. Andrews. 2. Beauty shot While taking shelter from the rain ...

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Getting by with a little help from friends: Unlikely duo helps Wolf Creek

September 23, 2015 By Seth Jones

The unlikely duo of a Haz-Mat Response company owner and a World Golf Hall of Famer team up to help Wolf Creek members improve their course. Wolf Creek Golf Club, located in Olathe, Kan., considers itself a “player’s club.” Of ...

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Less turf, more water: Courses strip turf to conserve water

September 23, 2015 By Stephanie S. Beecher

As California mandates a 25-percent water use restriction, golf courses are stripping turf to conserve every drop of water they can. Rumblings about the California drought have by now spread to every corner of the country. Still, it was a ...

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Chop the top: Fraze mowing gains traction in US

September 23, 2015 By Chris Lewis

Fraze mowing is becoming more popular in the U.S., and superintendents are noticing immediate results. Ask any U.S.-based superintendent about their knowledge of, or experience with, fraze mowing and they likely will respond with a common description — unusual, shocking, ...

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