Maintenance

The niche of the Horticulturist

January 22, 2014 By Joelle Harms

Here’s how a horticulturist — part ecologist, soil scientist, florist, pest manager and artist — can help at your course. No one expects the neighborhood teenage boy hired to cut the lawn to provide immaculate PGA Tour quality results. In ...

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What happens to those green spaces?

December 11, 2013 By Karl Danneberger, Ph.D.

I grew up in one of those subdivisions that were built in the 1950s as part of the middle class movement to suburbia. We lived on a dead-end street that abutted what was initially a large farm field that rapidly developed ...

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The art of doing it cheap

December 11, 2013 By Joelle Harms

There are low-budget golf courses and there are no-budget golf courses. A superintendent veteran of both types tells how he still got it all done. – By Chris Sorrell Without a doubt the golf course superintendent profession is demanding. In the ...

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Lucky ’13: Golfdom’s year in review

December 11, 2013 By Ken Moum and Seth Jones

Time again for our annual year in review. A look at who bet on black and won big in 2013, and who busted. Like Dad always said, “I’d rather be lucky than good.” ¶ The number 13 may be considered ...

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Flower Power: How one course changed its fate

November 14, 2013 By Christina Thomas

There’s something special about a municipal golf course — that beat-up old track where people often learn to love the game. Golf on a muni is usually a love-hate relationship: you love it because you’ve memorized every blade of grass ...

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Magnum Harvester Golf Ball Picker

November 11, 2013 By Golfdom Staff

The world’s best golf ball picker…period! The only gang picker that can pick up golf balls in both forwards and reverse. Superior Dual-Integrated Gang Technology means each gang member pivots independently in any direction for unequaled maneuverability on rolling terrain, ...

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