Effect of golf shoe designs on putting greens
Cole Thompson, Ph.D., director of USGA Green Section, takes a look at the impact of golf shoe design and foot traffic on putting greens. ...Read More
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100 years young: The USGA Green Section
Despite reaching its 100-year anniversary, the USGA’s Green Section is too busy adapting to golf courses’ ever-changing needs to celebrate its centennial. ...Read More
The bunker rake debate
Many things have changed in the game of golf since the world was ensnared in the COVID-19 pandemic. Common touch points such as ball washers and water coolers quickly were removed from courses around the U.S. On the maintenance side, ...Read More
Making a Wisconsin connection
Mike Kenna compares University of Wisconsin turfgrass pathologist Paul Koch, Ph.D., to John Monteith Jr. of the USGA Green Section. ...Read More
USGA research grant reaches key milestone in protecting pollinators
The USGA’s multiyear collaboration with Audubon International has reached a key milestone by creating 1,000 acres of pollinator habitat on courses across America through the Monarchs in the Rough initiative. The association’s $100,000 grant, delivered through the USGA Turfgrass Environmental ...Read More
William Bengeyfield, former USGA Green Section national director, dies
William H. (Bill) Bengeyfield, former USGA Green Section agronomist and national director, passed away June 3, 2020, at the age of 97 in his home in Meridian, Idaho according to the USGA Green Section Record. Bengeyfield served as USGA agronomist until ...Read More