Photo: Brookside Golf & Country Club

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How timing equals savings for Brookside Golf & Country Club

May 1, 2019 By
Carl Wittenauer, CGCS at Brookside Golf & Country Club in Columbus, Ohio, knows that timing is everything. Take his role as superintendent for example — three months after accepting the assistant superintendent job at the course, the superintendent position opened ...

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No. 9 on the March course at the Ivanhoe Club (Photo: The Ivanhoe Club)

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Tested perfection. How a Chicago club weathered the perfect storm for dollar spot to keep turf disease-free for the pros

April 1, 2019 By
The Ivanhoe Club, on Chicago’s north side, offers a trio of 9-hole courses. It’s enough to keep anyone busy through the season. However, when the club hosted an event like the Web.com Tour’s Rust-Oleum Championship in early June 2017 and ...

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Spring results form fall application of Indemnify (Photo provided by Tim Heirs, The Club at Mediterra)

Indemnify:
A game changer for nematodes

March 15, 2019 By
As nematodes become an increasing problem across the United States, Bayer has responded with a year-round solution. By Chris Lewis | Sponsored Content In 2005, Zac Reicher, Ph.D., then a Turfgrass Extension Specialist at Purdue and now with the Bayer ...

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Photo: by the National Golf Club of Kansas City.

Stressgard:
In a league of its own

January 15, 2019 By
Stressgard combats golf courses’ abiotic and biotic stresses immediately and in the long term. By Chris Lewis | Sponsored Content Simply put, there is no counterpart to Stressgard — a proprietary stress-mitigating technology unlike anything else on the market. Stressgard’s ...

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Golf couse sprayer, PBI-Gordon

The fungicide rotation chess game

July 12, 2018 By
Proper fungicide rotation is just another way of saying fungicide resistance management. Resistance management is imperative for all superintendents, and it’s not just those in the academic community that will make that claim — it’s those in industry as well. ...

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Photo: Mary Ann Hansen, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Bugwood.org

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California superintendent removes a trio of diseases — once and for all.

May 1, 2018 By
For nearly seven years, Todd Kochanowski, the superintendent at Temecula, Calif.’s Temecula Creek Inn, has tried to remove summer patch, anthracnose and rapid blight from the inn’s 27-hole championship golf course with little to no success. He attempted virtually every ...

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