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Waterproof

July 15, 2009 By
Editor’s note: Bethpage Black Golf Course Superintendent Craig Currier invited me to the U.S. Open last month to hang out with the grounds crew during the tournament. I took the invite a step further and asked Currier if I could ...

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A West Coast Pest Settles in New York

July 15, 2009 By
Rod Ferrentino, who has spent 30 years as a horticulture specialist, extension entomologist and now golf course consultant in New York, has seen a lot of invasive pests come and go. But the new pest on the block – the ...

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Davis Shoots the U.S. Open Breeze

June 5, 2009 By
Entering his fourth U.S. Open as the United States Golf Association’s Senior Director of Rules and Competitions, Mike Davis has quickly transitioned the USGA image from staid protectors of par to proponents of interesting, cerebral golf. Davis spoke to Golfdom ...

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The Root of the Matter

May 1, 2004 By
You can’t stop root loss from occurring, but you can control it so greens can make it through the summer unscathed What do you get when you combine small greens, heavy golfer traffic, searing heat, high humidity and no air ...

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March 1928: Preparing for the Season’s Opening

March 1, 1928 By
Below is an archived PDF file from the March 1928 issue of Golfdom about preparing for the season’s opening, written by Bob Duguid, then-greenkeeper at Evanston Golf Club. The archive is an ongoing cooperative project of North Coast Media, Golfdom‘s ...

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