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Zelenski Looks Back With a Spring in His Step
Chet Zelenski enters the room with a bounce to his step, a bright smile and a gleam in his eye that makes one think he has the keys to Fort Knox and is on a first-name basis with the guards. He shakes...
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Shoreacres Founded on Fascinating Agronomics
Shoreacres stands as one of the finest golf courses in the United States, and has held that position since it opened in 1921. Its early agronomic story is unique. The club, on the shores of Lake...
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Border Fence Doomed Texas Golf Course, Not Illegal Immigration
As the Rio Grande River travels between Brownsville, Texas, and Matamoros, Mexico, it snaps back and forth in long and narrow jags, creating land incursions by one country into the other. For over 50...
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How the Minimum Wage Increase Will Affect Superintendents
With the announcement that California and New York will substantially raise the minimum wage over a five-year span beginning in 2017, the golf course industry is left to wonder what the effect will be....
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Growing the Game… Starting With One Kid at a Time
Too often the barrier between many underprivileged kids and the golf course is the green fee. That’s a problem when growing the game is a priority. For 10 years now, Youth on Course (YOC) has been...
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Goodbye Tom DeGrandi, You Will be Missed
Tom DeGrandi recently retired from the golf course superintendent position at TPC River Highlands to start a new chapter of his life in Boise, Idaho. The move went largely unnoticed in the golf...
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Why Worry About Par?
We’ve gone too far with this par paranoia. “What’s par on this course?” “What’s par on this hole?” “How many pars did you make?” When the winner of the Open Championship is announced, the number given...
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FAIRWAYiQ: System That Tracks Movement on Courses
For six weeks Weston (Massachusetts) Golf Club Superintendent Matt DeAvila watched as two men worked out of a room on the second floor of his maintenance facility, spending their time around a computer...
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The Art of Listening to the Turf
Michael Vessely is in an interesting role as golf course superintendent of the Culver Academies Golf Course in Indiana. He is charged with maintaining a layout that was essentially asleep for over 50...
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The 2016 Tongue-in-Cheek Golf Awards
It’s about to be over. Pack it in. Everybody out. That’s it, 2016 is all but done. But before we comfortably slip into 2017, let’s take a look back and heap accolade, laurels, compliments and/or...
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