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2014 Graffis winner Jim Rattigan joins The Plant Food Co.

February 2, 2015 By Grant Gannon

Jim Rattigan, director of operations at Schuylkill Country Club in Orwigsburg, Pa., and Golfdom’s 2014 Herb Graffis Businessperson of the Year award winner, has accepted a position with The Plant Food Company as its Southeast regional director. In this position, ...

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Miller ready to return to LPGA

January 29, 2015 By Seth Jones

After four years working as GCSAA’s Field Staff representative for the Great Lakes region, John Miller, CGCS, is heading back to work with the LPGA. This time around the job remains the same, but the arrangement is a little different. ...

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The Golfdom Files Extended: The next 25 years

January 22, 2015 By Grant Gannon

For the January 2015 Golfdom Files, we took a step into the time machine and brought out an article that ran exactly 40 years prior, from the January 1975 Golfdom. The Next 25 Years By Jerry Claussen, National Golf Foundation ...

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The Golfdom Files Extended: Confessions of a club pro

December 19, 2014 By Grant Gannon

In December 2014 issue we published an article from the May 1967 issue of Golfdom written by an anonymous club professional. The pro goes into detail about his day-to-day relationships with the club administration and membership. Despite all of the challenging relationships he wrote about in ...

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Golfdom Files Extended: New bonanza in ’66

December 10, 2014 By Grant Gannon

In the November Golfdom we published this excerpt from the October-November 1965 issue about how golf courses planned on utilizing the unexpected funds they would receive when the Federal Excise Tax, a tax added in to products or services before sales ...

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From dream come true to worst nightmare

October 28, 2014 By Molly Gase

John Ramsey, superintendent at Gulf Shores (Ala.) Golf Club, went from the best-case scenario to the worst on his course. Converting to MiniVerde bermudagrass greens was a dream come true. “It’s the best grass I’ve ever dealt with,” he says. ...

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