Tag: USGA

Golfdom EIC Seth Jones to deliver keynote at VGCSA Fall Conference

October 13, 2015 By Seth Jones

The 2015 Virginia GCSA Fall Conference and Joe Saylor Golf Tournament takes place next week, Oct. 19-20, at Hermitage CC in Manakin-Sabot, Va. Golfdom Editor-in-Chief Seth Jones will be delivering the keynote address, and other speakers include Virginia Tech’s David ...

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GCBAA announces Don A. Rossi Award winner

September 17, 2015 By Grant Gannon

The Golf Course Builders Association of America (GCBAA) has named James (Jim) Moore the recipient of the Don A. Rossi Award. “Jim is an advocate for the highest level of golf course construction and renovation standards for the industry and he ...

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USGA names future U.S. Open Championship sites

July 22, 2015 By Grant Gannon

The United States Golf Association (USGA) has named The Country Club in Brookline, Mass., The Los Angeles (Calif.) Country Club and Pinehurst Resort & Country Club in the Village of Pinehurst, N.C., as the host sites for the 2022, 2023 ...

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The 19th Hole: Jared Nemitz

July 16, 2015 By Seth Jones

Superintendent // The Peninsula Club, Cornelius, N.C. After 18 holes, what’s your drink of choice? A perfectly blended Coca-Cola. You just hosted 40 supers. What was the occasion? It was an Ultradwarf Putting Green Surface Management seminar put on by the ...

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Talking U.S. Open conditions with USGA’s Bevard

June 18, 2015 By Seth Jones

I caught up with Darin Bevard, the USGA’s director of championship agronomy, and we chatted a little about the greens, those little white dots on them, and how he felt about his first U.S. Open as the USGA’s director of ...

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Davis to crew: “No group more important”

June 14, 2015 By Seth Jones

The crew at Chambers Bay has been preparing for this week for years. This afternoon marked the first time the full crew — regular and volunteers — assembled in person to talk business. More than 100 turf experts from around ...

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