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Green Start Academy attendees (Photo: John Deere)

Golfdom Gallery: December 2019

December 27, 2019 By Sarah Webb

A look at a few of the faces and places that the Golfdom editorial and sales teams have encountered over the past couple of months. Start ’em young Paul Culclasure, CGCS at Kilmarlic Golf Club, Powell’s Point, N.C., says his ...

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Creeping bentgrass growing in cone-tainers. (Photo: Wendell Hutchins)

Help your fungicide with post-application irrigation

December 23, 2019 By Wendell Hutchens, Jim Kerns, Ph.D., Dave Shew, Ph.D., Travis Gannon, Ph.D. and Khalied Ahmed

All turfgrass species can be devastated by crown- and root-infecting pathogens. Diseases such as summer patch (Magnaporthiopsis poae), spring dead spot (Ophiosphaerella spp.) and Pythium root rot (Pythium spp.) can decimate turfgrass stands. Cultural management practices are often employed to ...

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19th Hole: E.J. Chea

December 20, 2019 By Seth Jones

E.J. Chea Superintendent // Pease Golf Course, Portsmouth, N.H. E.J., what can I get you? Maker’s Mark and Diet Coke, with a lime. Tell me about your family. My wife is Beth. Our son Graham is 8 and a half. ...

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Four courses, two superintendents, one vision

December 17, 2019 By Chris Lewis

As the home of the PGA Tour’s Valspar Championship, Palm Harbor, Fla.’s Innisbrook Resort is the center of the golf world’s attention one week every year. After all, major champions like Jordan Spieth, Vijay Singh, Jim Furyk and Retief Goosen ...

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Definitely not one of the guys: A 2019 Women in Golf recap

December 12, 2019 By Golfdom Staff

Brandi Merrick is assistant superintendent of golf maintenance at The Omni Grove Park Inn Golf Club in Asheville, N.C., but she went to Iowa State to be an actuary because she loves math. She soon realized, however, that crunching numbers ...

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Supers: What was your first concert? — Golfdom Summit 2019

December 10, 2019 By Tyler Gunter

At the 2019 Golfdom Summit, we asked a few superintendents if they remembered their first concert experience. Here are some of the hilarious responses we received. ...

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