Maintenance

Questions and Answers: The EMS edition

September 23, 2013 By Kevin A. Fletcher, Ph.D. and Kelly Limpert

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 Seth Jones

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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When in need

August 22, 2013 By John Walsh

For 10 years, the Wee One Foundation has been helping those in trying times. Ryan Kopke, golf course superintendent at New Albany (Ohio) Country Club, has been living a nightmare for the past two years. It started when Kopke’s wife ...

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Behind the Curtain

August 20, 2013 By Seth Jones

Billy Casper Golf allows us exclusive access to its annual meeting — and shows us how it’s trying to change the industry. For three days in February, golf industry professionals from across the country converge on Tampa, Fla. They come from ...

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Thanks 4 being a member

July 30, 2013 By Bob Cook, CTP

When the maintenance crew is asked to further an initiative, a forward-thinking superintendent steps up. For 35 years I’ve been a superintendent, my longest time spent in Sacramento, Calif., where I worked for 16 years. Currently, I’m enjoying working at ...

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Primed for the PGA

July 29, 2013 By David McPherson

Corcoran and crew have Oak Hill rough and ready for the 2013 PGA Championship Oak Hill Country Club is no stranger to hosting Majors. Since it was founded in 1901, the 36-hole facility has hosted nearly every major golf tournament, ...

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