Maintenance

The walking dread on golf courses: Red Imported Fire Ants

August 19, 2014 By
With the Red Imported Fire Ant, danger lurks behind every massive mound Flesh-eating zombies are all the rage on TV. On the golf course, fire ant bites just cause a rage…and sometimes worse. There’s no way around it. Fire ants ...

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Jacobsen launches TurfCat rotary mower

August 13, 2014 By
Jacobsen, a Textron Company, launched its TurfCat out-front rotary mower. The multi-purpose machine provides the lowest cost of ownership in its class, according to the company, and features an all-hydraulic deck and traction drives. The new TurfCat costs less to maintain because ...

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Grassing of the Olympic Golf Course in Rio underway

August 13, 2014 By
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
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
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
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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