Tag: USGA

USGA names future U.S. Open Championship sites

July 22, 2015 By Grant Gannon

The United States Golf Association (USGA) has named The Country Club in Brookline, Mass., The Los Angeles (Calif.) Country Club and Pinehurst Resort & Country Club in the Village of Pinehurst, N.C., as the host sites for the 2022, 2023 ...

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The 19th Hole: Jared Nemitz

July 16, 2015 By Seth Jones

Superintendent // The Peninsula Club, Cornelius, N.C. After 18 holes, what’s your drink of choice? A perfectly blended Coca-Cola. You just hosted 40 supers. What was the occasion? It was an Ultradwarf Putting Green Surface Management seminar put on by the ...

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Talking U.S. Open conditions with USGA’s Bevard

June 18, 2015 By Seth Jones

I caught up with Darin Bevard, the USGA’s director of championship agronomy, and we chatted a little about the greens, those little white dots on them, and how he felt about his first U.S. Open as the USGA’s director of ...

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Davis to crew: “No group more important”

June 14, 2015 By Seth Jones

The crew at Chambers Bay has been preparing for this week for years. This afternoon marked the first time the full crew — regular and volunteers — assembled in person to talk business. More than 100 turf experts from around ...

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USGA leader applauds Chambers Bay superintendents

April 28, 2015 By Grant Gannon

About 200 members of the media gathered at Chambers Bay Golf Course in University Place, Wash., for the 2015 U.S. Open media day on Monday. Among those available for questioning were some of the United States Golf Association’s (USGA’s) leadership, including Tom O’Toole ...

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Less is more at Erin Hills Golf Course

April 9, 2015 By Chris Lewis

In preparation for the 2017 U.S. Open, Erin Hills achieves stunning results while using minimalistic approaches to conserve natural resources. Take a site made up of unusual earth formations left behind by glaciers thousands of years ago, add in a ...

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