Tag: The Golfdom Files

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The Golfdom Files: Can a country club afford data processing?

June 22, 2023 By
Take a trip back to April 1963, to learn how golf courses managed their data in the time before modern-day business softwares. ...

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The Golfdom Files: A glimpse into the future

April 25, 2023 By
Take a look back to 2001 as Golfdom profiled three superintendents who embraced what was new and how it helped them become better agronomists. ...

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The Golfdom Files: A $16K maintenance budget

June 7, 2022 By
Golfdom’s September 1927 issue looks at the tug and pull between superintendents and greens committees when setting maintenance estimates. ...

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The Golfdom Files: Superintendents’ headaches never disappear

April 7, 2017 By
Have you ever just wanted to vent to someone else? In the February 1963 edition of Golfdom, the editors allowed three superintendents, Ray Gerber of Glen Oak GC, Glen Ellyn, Ill., James A. Reid of the Suburban Club in Pikesville, ...

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The Golfdom Files: Unlimited budget

December 12, 2016 By
In the October 1958 edition of Golfdom, superintendents were asked to dream the impossible dream. What would they do, they were asked, with an unlimited budget? An unidentified greens chairman had recently attended a superintendent meeting and posed the same ...

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The Golfdom Files: Converting to the metric system

May 16, 2016 By
In the June 2015 Golfdom, Karl Danneberger, Ph.D., highlighted a trip he took to Egypt and described golf course maintenance in that country. While there, he noted that some local superintendents use the English metric system, learned from U.S. superintendents ...

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