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Call him the Duke of the Intermountain

October 11, 2017 By Grant Gannon

Since 1967, Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon, Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Godfather” was released, the Berlin Wall came down between East and West Germany, Nelson Mandela was elected president of South Africa and Apple ...

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The Golfdom Files: The undefined role of assistant superintendent

July 18, 2017 By Kelly Limpert

Keith Wood’s staff at Quail Hollow, Charlotte, N.C., is a group of well educated, experienced assistant superintendents. The importance of a strong staff is not always easy to convey to a membership. In the May 1973 edition of Golfdom, Warren ...

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The Golfdom Files: Grau’s answers to turf questions

June 19, 2017 By Kelly Limpert

Fred V. Grau, Ph.D., is probably best known as the United State’s first Extension Service turf agronomist at Penn State University, or as a former director of the USGA Green Section or one of the founders of the Musser International ...

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Golfdom Files: Tifgreen, new high-rated bermuda, is released

May 2, 2017 By Kelly Limpert

In the April 1956 edition of Golfdom, B.P. Robinson and J.M. Latham Jr. wrote about the exciting new Tifgreen bermudagrass. It originally was intended for use on putting greens, but it also was used on tees, fairways and roughs. Although ...

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The Golfdom Files: Superintendents’ headaches never disappear

April 7, 2017 By Kelly Limpert

Have you ever just wanted to vent to someone else? In the February 1963 edition of Golfdom, the editors allowed three superintendents, Ray Gerber of Glen Oak GC, Glen Ellyn, Ill., James A. Reid of the Suburban Club in Pikesville, ...

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The Golfdom Files: Unlimited budget

December 12, 2016 By Kelly Limpert

In the October 1958 edition of Golfdom, superintendents were asked to dream the impossible dream. What would they do, they were asked, with an unlimited budget? An unidentified greens chairman had recently attended a superintendent meeting and posed the same ...

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