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A shot of the picturesque fairway on No. 18 at Columbia CC. (Photo: Columbia CC)

Beating Pythium on ryegrass fairways

July 12, 2019 By Curt Harler

If your short game is working and your long game is on, odds are you are going to have a successful round. The same holds for disease control. If one mode of operation is working well and a second can ...

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Golf course photo (Photo: Jeff VerCautren)

Using your 6 senses on the golf course

June 20, 2019 By Matt Wagner and Jeff VerCautren

The other day, I was following our train of operators on the way out to their morning assignments. During my travels, I was overwhelmed by the dreaded smell of fuel leaking from something. I immediately radioed my assistants and mechanics ...

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Review of 2018: Problematic diseases and fungicide efficacy testing

June 7, 2019 By Brian Aynardi, Ph.D.

Weather in the 2018 growing season varied widely by region. The Midwest and parts of the western United States were dry throughout most of the summer and into the fall. Meanwhile, the eastern U.S. saw one of the wettest years ...

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Golfdom Files: Moose Run rolls with quake, then has its biggest year

June 5, 2019 By Sarah Webb

Devastation! Destruction! Mass chaos! Those are the headlines you’d expect to see when reading an article about a golf course hit by a massive earthquake. Somehow, when a 9.2-magnitude earthquake rocked southeastern Alaska on March 27, 1964, Moose Run Golf ...

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The mystery behind the missing left glove

June 3, 2019 By Matt Cavanaugh

In October, I found myself once again digging through the two compartments of my golf cart. I lift up the seat to look in the battery compartment, hoping to find what I’m looking for. I take one last hopeful look ...

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Pebble Beach personalities

May 23, 2019 By Seth Jones

Steven Spatafore Assistant-in-Training It’s fair to say the 2008 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am changed the life of then-12-year-old Steven Spatafore. Not because he had a chance encounter with Kevin Costner, Ray Romano or Kevin James. Huey Lewis could have walked ...

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