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Oakmont’s greens are ready to roll

June 15, 2016 By
In the weeks leading up to this week’s U.S. Open, Jacobsen, a Textron Inc. company, visited with David Delsandro, director of U.S. Open operations & projects, and John Zimmers, superintendent of Oakmont (Pa.) Country Club. Much has been said about ...

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Watching Swampers and reading greens with Double D

June 14, 2016 By
I just jumped out of the cart with Oakmont’s Director of U.S. Open Operations Dave Delsandro. We did a middle-of-the-day drive around to check on a few things that were top on his list: mainly greens firmness and checking on ...

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Marzolf: “The quality of turf here is as good as any course in America”

June 14, 2016 By
I caught up with Fazio Golf Course Design’s Tom Marzolf, ASGCA, today. One of the nicest guys in all of the business, in my opinion. And the guy has stories! Fazio Design is getting some amazing contracts, and I just ...

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Zimmers to crew: You’re the best in the world

June 14, 2016 By
The crew here at Oakmont is 50 strong. For the U.S. Open, another 140 volunteers are here to help out. Many are over-qualified for the jobs they’re on, but they just want to lend a hand. It’s a who’s who of ...

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2016 U.S. Open Day 1

June 13, 2016 By
Here are a bunch of photos from Sunday and a few from Monday, of the 2016 U.S. Open maintenance team at work. I’ll get in here with captions as needed as soon as things settle down…       Photos: ...

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Women’s Golf Day brings thousands to golf globally

June 10, 2016 By
More than 400 golf facilities in 27 countries hosted thousands of women and girl’s in celebration of the inaugural International Women’s Golf Day (WGD) on June 7. “We were able to fulfill our mission to engage, empower and support women ...

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