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Lucky ’13: Golfdom’s year in review

December 11, 2013 By and
Time again for our annual year in review. A look at who bet on black and won big in 2013, and who busted. Like Dad always said, “I’d rather be lucky than good.” ¶ The number 13 may be considered ...

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Flower Power: How one course changed its fate

November 14, 2013 By
There’s something special about a municipal golf course — that beat-up old track where people often learn to love the game. Golf on a muni is usually a love-hate relationship: you love it because you’ve memorized every blade of grass ...

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Magnum Harvester Golf Ball Picker

November 11, 2013 By
The world’s best golf ball picker…period! The only gang picker that can pick up golf balls in both forwards and reverse. Superior Dual-Integrated Gang Technology means each gang member pivots independently in any direction for unequaled maneuverability on rolling terrain, ...

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10 keys to enhancing turf survival this winter

November 5, 2013 By
Brian Horgan, Ph.D., is a professor of turfgrass science at the University of Minnesota. Winter survival of turf is one of Brian’s research interests and he can be contacted at bphorgan@umn.edu. Q: What is the most common cause of winter injury ...

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Questions and Answers: The EMS edition

September 23, 2013 By and
Environmental improvements made throughout golf since the early 1990s have been noteworthy. The Environmental Institute for Golf’s 2007 Environmental Profile Survey, and their subsequent surveys since, have revealed numerous areas where golf has embraced environmental stewardship as a way to ...

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What’s the next big idea at Spectrum Technologies

August 22, 2013 By
Mike Thurow likes pain. Not physical pain, but pain in business. When a group is having a pain with their business, he says he sees that as a business opportunity. So it could be said that Thurow, president and CEO ...

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