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Photos: construction shots (Keith Wood), all others (Travis Dove)

2017 PGA Championship preview

July 31, 2017 By Seth Jones

Quail Hollow Superintendent Keith Wood remembers one of his first experiences with celebrated architect Tom Fazio. It was during the 2015 Wells Fargo Championship, and the two were driving around the course during the Wednesday Pro-Am. They pulled up to ...

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The 19th Hole: Adam Hahn

July 26, 2017 By Seth Jones

Adam Hahn Superintendent // Woodside Golf Course, Lansing, Mich. What would you like? I’ll stick with Miller Lite. Want a shot of Fireball? Sure. So, tell me about yourself. I’m from Williamston, Mich., it’s in the Lansing area. I got ...

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Nematodes on northern turfgrasses

July 24, 2017 By Nathaniel A. Mitkowski, Ph.D.

Nematodes are everywhere. They’re found in all but the most extreme environmental conditions, in soils, oceans, rivers, streams, on plants, in plants and even in animals and humans. Fortunately, most nematodes are innocuous, eating bacteria and occasionally each other. Of ...

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Smithco celebrates 50 years of improving turf maintenance

July 19, 2017 By Katy Ibsen

For Ted Smith, founder of Pennsylvania-based Smithco, his greatest ideas came from the field. Of course, Ted’s proverbial “field” could be defined as many locales, but none more important than along the fairway. Here he would envision machinery that would ...

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Where a full house always wins

July 17, 2017 By Seth Jones

Forget the royal flushes, Rhodes Ranch Golf Club in Las Vegas goes all in on a packed tee sheet. Roy Smith, general manager at Rhodes Ranch Golf Club in Las Vegas, remembers playing the course he now manages some six ...

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Focused on Labor

July 7, 2017 By Seth Jones and Grant Gannon

Superintendents across the country shed light on the biggest problem in golf maintenance — a lack of labor. When he’s not at work, Robert Guerra is comfortable in a cowboy hat and cowboy boots. The superintendent at Reunion Resort in ...

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