Maintenance

Grassing of the Olympic Golf Course in Rio underway

August 13, 2014 By Joelle Harms

Green Grass Brazil began installing Zeon Zoysia grass and SeaDwarf Seashore paspalum on the Olympic Golf Course because just two years from now, in August 2016, golf will return as an Olympic sport for the first time in more than a century. Marcelo Matte, owner ...

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Keeping an “Open” mind when golfing

July 23, 2014 By Joel Jackson

Watching the back-to-back men’s and women’s U.S. Opens took me down memory lane to the days when I worked at Disney and we hosted the Oldsmobile Scramble and Disney Classic back-to-back. Many challenges can pop up when hosting events back-to-back. ...

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Hello from the U.S. Open: This place is The Pit

June 23, 2014 By Seth Jones

I have had the good fortune to stay in some pretty nice places in just the few years I’ve been working for Golfdom: Trump Towers in Chicago; The Rittenhouse in Philadelphia; The May Fair in London, to name a few ...

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Architect Bill Coore answers reader’s question, talks future of maintenance

June 17, 2014 By Joelle Harms

Architect Bill Coore of Coore & Crenshaw answers a reader-submitted question and talks about the presentation of Pinehurst No. 2 for the 2014 U.S. Open. Also, a little-known story about how Coore found out he had a distant cousin on ...

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Take it to the bank: Weed seed, that is

May 21, 2014 By Curt Harler

If we could take weeds to the bank, we’d all be millionaires. Because an important component of managing weeds is preventing the seeds released by weeds each autumn from becoming new plants, researchers set up what might be termed weed ...

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Turf Toughie: White grub control