Tag: Education

Free PACE Turf videos explore spring aeration and disease

April 28, 2011 By
PACE Turf recently released a trilogy of free videos addressing issues that concern superintendents every spring—compaction and fairy ring. In the first of the three videos, which can be seen for free on YouTube, La Jolla Country Club superintendent Dennis ...

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CMAA Releases Sustainability Manual


April 12, 2011 By
Help is here for golf clubs striving to be more environmentally conscious. Last month, the Club Managers Association of America, in conjunction with experts from the Scotland-based Golf Environment Organization, released a sustainability manual to guide clubs interested in taking ...

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Penn State University gets endowment for turfgrass programs

April 12, 2011 By
Pennsylvania Turfgrass Research Inc. recently donated $300,000 to the university’s College of Agricultural Sciences to create an endowment benefiting the university’s turfgrass research and educational programs. Dubbed “the Pennsylvania Turf Research Innovation Fund”, the endowment will primarily support new graduate ...

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Short Game Target System

March 28, 2011 By
Standard Golf Company has a new economical practice system called the Short Game Target System, available April 1, 2011 through Standard Golf distributors. The system consists of adjustable hoop-style targets that come with heavy-duty polyethylene distance markers in 10-yard increments ...

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Reinders hosts 20th Turf & Irrigation Conference

March 28, 2011 By
The 20th Reinders Turf & Irrigation Conference was held March 9 and 10. Over 35 seminars covered six different educational tracts to meet the needs of golf course superintendents, landscape contractors, lawn care operators, sports turf managers, equipment mechanics and ...

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Big on Bio

September 28, 2010 By
Bionutritional products have made a believer out of Roch Gaussoin, who previously preferred them about as much as the general public liked the taste of New Coke when it was rolled out in 1985 to replace the company’s original cola. ...

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