The Golfdom Files: A record-setting purse at the PGA Championship
We're throwing it back to the September 1959 edition of Golfdom where Herb Graffis notes the PGA Championship’s largest purse ever at the time. ...Read More
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The Golfdom Files: Can a country club afford data processing?
Take a trip back to April 1963, to learn how golf courses managed their data in the time before modern-day business softwares. ...Read More
The Golfdom Files: A glimpse into the future
Take a look back to 2001 as Golfdom profiled three superintendents who embraced what was new and how it helped them become better agronomists. ...Read More
The Golfdom Files: A $16K maintenance budget
Golfdom’s September 1927 issue looks at the tug and pull between superintendents and greens committees when setting maintenance estimates. ...Read More
The Golfdom Files: Superintendents’ headaches never disappear
Have you ever just wanted to vent to someone else? In the February 1963 edition of Golfdom, the editors allowed three superintendents, Ray Gerber of Glen Oak GC, Glen Ellyn, Ill., James A. Reid of the Suburban Club in Pikesville, ...Read More
The Golfdom Files: Unlimited budget
In the October 1958 edition of Golfdom, superintendents were asked to dream the impossible dream. What would they do, they were asked, with an unlimited budget? An unidentified greens chairman had recently attended a superintendent meeting and posed the same ...Read More