Tag: Hawaii

Questions and Answers: The EMS edition

September 23, 2013 By and
Environmental improvements made throughout golf since the early 1990s have been noteworthy. The Environmental Institute for Golf’s 2007 Environmental Profile Survey, and their subsequent surveys since, have revealed numerous areas where golf has embraced environmental stewardship as a way to ...

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Valent hires managers for southeastern, western regions

September 17, 2013 By
Valent Professional Products has named Jim Crockett and Nancy Voorhees territory managers for its southeastern and western regions, respectively. Crockett, who most recently served as a horticulturist at Auburn University, has worked in a leadership capacity at a number of ...

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Behind the Curtain

August 20, 2013 By
Billy Casper Golf allows us exclusive access to its annual meeting — and shows us how it’s trying to change the industry. For three days in February, golf industry professionals from across the country converge on Tampa, Fla. They come from ...

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Iron layering in two-tiered putting greens

January 6, 2013 By
By Glen R. Obear, M.S. Candidate, University of Wisconsin-Madison When was the last time you sampled the full profile of your sand-based putting greens? Many people rarely, if ever, sample the profile all the way down to the pea gravel ...

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Architects by design

January 6, 2013 By
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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Hawaii registers Dismiss, Dismiss South, Blindside

October 24, 2012 By
PHILADELPHIA—FMC Professional Solutions, a business unit of FMC Corp., has received registration from the State of Hawaii for the sale and use of Dismiss turf herbicide, Dismiss South herbicide and Blindside herbicide. All three can be used on bermudagrass and ...

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