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Parting shots from GIS 2018

February 16, 2018 By
Did the 2018 Golf Industry Show ever really happen? It must have, because I have a mountainous pile of press releases, plenty of fresh equipment photos on my phone and, a week later, a still-wrecked sleep schedule from the late ...

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Jonesy’s GIS notebook: meetings that stood out

February 13, 2018 By
The John Deere booth had all sorts of activity. My friend Ren Wilkes, regional sales manager for Deere, told me the items that were getting the most attention in the booth was the 6500A PrecisionCut Fairway Mower, the OnLink demonstrations ...

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GIS 2018 in pictures

February 13, 2018 By
Greenworks Tools Senior Product Manager David Glueck makes short work of an Oak tree with a battery-powered chainsaw. Booths like Quali-Pro offered plenty of activities to keep GIS attendees around, including this beer-pong-meets-chipping-game. Golfdom Group Publisher Bill Roddy showed off ...

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Jonesy’s GIS notebook: odds and ends

February 13, 2018 By
Let’s go Chief! At the Standard Golf booth, I saw my old pal Matt Pauli, who recently became part owner (along with all the rest of his co-workers) of the company. He had a new rake called The Chief that ...

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Jonesy’s GIS notebook: big picture thoughts

February 13, 2018 By
I took a ridiculous number of meetings at the 2018 Golf Industry Show, there wasn’t a single block of time that wasn’t accounted for in my schedule. I had a lot of highlights, virtually no lowlights, and even learned a ...

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Golfdom gets a behind-the-scenes look at Yamaha’s new lineup of UTVs

January 23, 2018 By
The Golfdom team was out in Kennesaw, Ga., earlier this month to get a behind the scenes look at Yamaha Golf-Car Co.‘s new UMAX product line. A few key improvements that caught our eye on the UMAX models include a ...

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