Tag: Golf Course Design

The niche of the Horticulturist

January 22, 2014 By Joelle Harms

Here’s how a horticulturist — part ecologist, soil scientist, florist, pest manager and artist — can help at your course. No one expects the neighborhood teenage boy hired to cut the lawn to provide immaculate PGA Tour quality results. In ...

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Flower Power: How one course changed its fate

November 14, 2013 By Christina Thomas

There’s something special about a municipal golf course — that beat-up old track where people often learn to love the game. Golf on a muni is usually a love-hate relationship: you love it because you’ve memorized every blade of grass ...

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Architects by design

January 6, 2013 By Joelle Harms

Three turf pros switched from course maintenance to course design — and found success. – By Anthony Pioppi It was as head greenkeeper of the Old Course in St. Andrews, Scotland that Old Tom Morris was called on to modify the design. ...

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Seth’s Travelogue: Northwest Golf and Environment meeting, Portland, Ore.

November 26, 2012 By Seth Jones

How I ended up on this All-Star bill is anyone’s guess! A report from the Oregon GCSA meeting. By Seth Jones When a trip starts with an explosion, that’s typically a bad thing. Unless that explosion is the Jon Spencer ...

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FarmLinks Golf Club Earns ‘Top Resorts’ Accolades from Golf Digest

October 14, 2011 By Golfdom staff

FarmLinks Golf Club at Pursell Farms has been ranked on Golf Digest’s 2011 list of the 75 Best Golf Resorts in North America, debuting at No. 39 The world’s only agronomic research and demonstration golf course is one of 30 ...

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Plan to Relocate Part of Lake Tahoe Golf Course Advances

September 20, 2011 By Golfdom staff

Up to nine holes of Lake Tahoe Golf Course are one step closer to being moved to Washoe Meadows State Park, part of a California plan intended to protect environmental components on the course. The California Department of State Parks ...

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