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Ducking danger in its many forms

March 26, 2018 By
I am knocking on wood, thanking my stars, pointing to the heavens while whispering a quiet “thank you.” Because once again, your pal Jonesy got through an adventure unscathed. I sometimes think about the time I got lost in London, ...

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Who let the dog (calendars) out?

February 15, 2018 By
It’s no secret that superintendents love their dogs. They also love their dog calendars, so much so that we’re now up to four dog calendars to choose from. The two most popular dog calendars are available from two of my ...

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Staying engaged with a ‘do it yourself’ mentality

February 15, 2018 By
Certainly, everyone is by now aware of the number of assistant superintendents who have left the business over the last four or five years. Reasons given usually involve some combination of reduced advancement opportunities since the Great Recession, low pay ...

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Farewell to input Armageddon

February 15, 2018 By
Throughout my career as a head greenkeeper, I slayed phosphorus to drive roots and applied potassium, hoping to suppress the gnarliest turfgrass pest of all time, anthracnose. And you better believe I was placing a target on pounds per thousand ...

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Photos: Mel Lucas Jr. (1), Hurdzan Golf Design (2), Michigan State University Library (3)

Great Golfdom collections

February 5, 2018 By
By the end of 2017, Golfdom had been published 770 times since it was first introduced by the Graffis brothers 90 years ago. Over the years, we have learned of three collections that are close to bringing together a complete ...

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A remarkable past…a vision for the future

February 2, 2018 By
The following — written and signed by the magazine’s then editor-in-chief — was the original four-page media planner for advertisers, introducing them to the relaunch of the magazine in 1999. Golfdom yesterday… What was Golfdom? It was the business journal ...

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