Maintaining a golf course can be tough in any context. But try tending turf in the hottest, driest spot in North America, on the lowest-elevation layout in the world. Bobby Alford is the assistant ...
Thinking back to my introduction to working in horticulture (and my introduction to working in general), my first job was a seasonal maintenance worker for a golf course. There, my primary duties ...
Welcome to Super Secrets, a GOLF.com series in which we pick the brains of the game’s leading superintendents. By illuminating how course maintenance crews ply their trades, we’re hopeful we can not ...
For most golfers, the work of a course superintendent remains wrapped in mystery—and of little interest. If they think about golf superintendents at all, they imagine them to be like the demented ...
Just because golf season is over doesn’t mean courses don’t still need regular attention. The maintenance team makes routine course checks throughout the winter looking for damage, debris or any ...
Golf courses are among the intensely managed turf systems. Different courses – and even different sections of the same course – will use different mowing and fertility strategies. A course's mixture ...
Wickliffe Recreation Director Tim Stopp recently reported at a City Council meeting that irrigation and greens maintenance will continue for as long as possible at Green Ridge Golf Course. Stopp said ...
A $15 million renovation of the Tom Fazio-designed golf course at Amelia National Golf & Country Club in Fernandina Beach has ...