Back in early September, I wrote of how we had worked to optimize in three different areas of the turfgrass operation-practice area, bunkers and...
This has been a spring to try a golfer’s patience. By this time last year, the golf course had been open for one week. Fortunately spending six years...
Predictions of Opening:
As the winter winds down, and the inevitable question comes, “What do you think? When will we be open?” My typical response...
The golf course closed at the conclusion of yesterday's play, this is the 11th time in my career I’ve had the pleasure of calling time on a golf...
Anyone working in any type of business has probably given great thought to the idea of optimization. One of my favorite uses of Google is for the...
The ultimate goal toward which Hazeltine turfgrass staff and I work each day is providing our members and their guests with the very best golf...
Poa, annual bluegrass and Poa annua, are all proper names for this plant. Po-anna & Po are also frequently pronunciations, most often heard on...
In the past week, I’ve received a couple versions of the question; “Why do some of the greens have a brown tinge? Are they doing ok in this heat?”...
In what has now been 10+ years as a golf course superintendent, I’ve performed a scheduled aerification of putting surfaces on 30 or so occasions....
