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We wanted to celebrate the teams and communities responsible for hosting the meaningful events every course hosts every year. So, we made their efforts the cover theme of our May issue.
Introducing the 2024 edition of “Our Big Day.”
@BASFTurf_us
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This is called doubling down on being a dick. It’s tone deaf and a slap in the face to every hardworking superintendent and crew member who gives it all to provide great conditions at every level. 👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼
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Aloha! Golf arrived in the scenic Keauhou Bay with the introduction of William Bell-designed Kona Country Club in 1966. The course reopened in 2016 following three years of renovations.
#MaukaToMakai
@JohnDeere
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Aloha! Nanea Golf Club opened in 2003. The David McLay Kidd-designed course features paspalum playing surfaces. Holes are framed by fountain grasses and volcanic rock.
#MaukaToMakai
@JohnDeere
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Developing news on the equipment front as
#GIS19
approaches:
@JohnDeere
enters agreement with Netherlands-based
@Precisionmakers
to develop autonomous solutions for golf.
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Aloha! The famed Robert Trent Jones Sr.-designed course at Mauna Kea Resort opened on Dec. 8, 1964 with a match involving Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer and Gary Player.
#MaukaToMaki
@JohnDeere
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Great news for one of the industry's most inspiring and passionate leaders. Bellerive Country Club has appointed Carlos Arraya as its next general manager. Arraya has been at Bellerive since 2016 and was the host superintendent for the 2018
@PGAChampionship
.
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Golf’s annual economic impact has grown nearly 20% in recent years and is now $84 billion.
@wearegolf
#NationalGolfDay
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How do you "dimple-in" newly seeded bentgrass surfaces. Terry Buchen found the answer in his travels.
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And lest we forget, congratulations to Brad Owen and his
#ANGC
team for showing the world how good a golf course can be.
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We learned early this morning that our friend
@wrightsteve19
is dead. He was a champion for Florida superintendents, a wonderful family man and husband, and a joy to be around. He quite simply loved life. More to come later but please keep his wife Sheree in your thoughts.
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Aloha! How diverse are the growing environments on Hawaii’s Big Island? Perry Dye-designed Big Island Country Club features bentgrass greens.
#MaukaToMakai
@JohnDeere
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We are pleased to announce that
@GCIMagazineGuy
has been promoted to Senior Editor. Congratulations!
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Frantic, demanding, rewarding, intense. Regardless of the adjective, it's been quite a nine-year journey for this
#WingedFoot
trio. Here's hoping they enjoy the final round of the
@usopengolf
and find the energy to watch their favorite football team play tonight.
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If hazards are supposed to be, y'know, a hazard,
@TimMoraghan
wants to know why superintendents are spending so much time and money making bunkers easier:
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Aloha! Big Island-inspired idea No. 2: Comprehensive recycling programs.
#MaukaToMakai
@JohnDeere
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"To be honest, there may be no better way to ruin a golf course than by haphazardly planting trees."
Strong words from the
@USGAGrnSection
in the "Fore the Golfer" feature in the current Green Section Record.
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Aloha! We’re back for more Hawaiian social media fun. We’re going to look at some of the people who make the Big Island courses shine.
#MaukaToMakai
@JohnDeere
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Congrats to GCI's Guy
@GCIMagazineGuy
Cipriano for being among the winners in the prestigious 2018 Golf Writers Association of America awards program for his three-part series on the flooding and rebuilding of Old White Course at The Greenbrier. For more:
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Incredible moment
@The_Greenbrier
.
@KellyShumate4
handing
@XSchauffele
the
@GbrClassic
championship trophy with the turf team on the green.
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Being called an “idiot” by a respected peer sparked some serious changes in Chris Allen’s life. Allen is now flourishing off and on the course in South Carolina.
#Inspirations
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“If you can spray with your basic sprayer, transitioning to the fundamentals of a GPS sprayer is very similar.”
How a tournament golf mainstay quickly integrated new sprayer technology into its adaptable agronomic program.
@JohnDeere
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After leading a packed
#GIS19
presentation about failure,
@PenderSuper
makes the case for sharing low moments with your peers.
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The
@USGA
has hired Jordan Booth as a
@USGAGrnSection
Southeast Region agronomist. Booth spent the past three years as a research associate with
@VTTurfgrass
. Booth joined the
@VTTurfgrass
team after a 10-year run as the superintendent at Willow Oaks (Virginia) Country Club.
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The other shoe has dropped. Chad Mark (
@Invernessturf
) will fill the vacancy left by
@pblatshaw
at Muirfield. Details coming shortly.
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Joe Buck: "How about an applause for John Zimmers and his staff." We second, third and fourth that! Splendid work by the
#Oakmont
team.
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A big group posing for a picture on a short course. The 2022 Green Start Academy class meets The Cradle
@PinehurstResort
.
@JohnDeere
@EnvuGolfUS
@RainBirdGolf
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Congratulations to our friend
@pjramina
who is the newest member of the
@BASFTurf_us
team. He’s a crafty veteran who says he’s “very excited” about his new role working with supers and other turf pros in NY, NJ and CT. Please join us in wishing him the best.
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Delighted to share the news that our friend Bob Farren of
@PinehurstResort
will be inducted into the Carolinas Golf Association Hall of Fame next year. He’s been a tremendous ambassador for golf in the Carolinas and for his profession. Congratulations Bob!
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Words fail us...
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We're also introducing a new monthly columnist to begin 2019. We're pumped to have
@CGCGreenkeeper
as an official part of our team. Here's the debut of the "America's Greenkeeper" column.
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They’ve done in agriculture and now they’re doing it in turf.
@JohnDeere
bracing to release a GPS-guided sprayer later this year.
#GIS18
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18 years and still going strong at Pete Dye-designed Long Cove Club on Hilton Head Island. Receiving turf and people management lessons from Ashley Davis. Not many superintendents in the Southeast have prepared more assistants for head jobs than the indefatigable Davis.
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Highly regarded East Coast superintendents Dave Delsandro and Jeff Corcoran have announced the formation of
@agro_advisors23
.
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A big equipment change has been made in the North Carolina Sandhills.
@PinehurstResort
has finalized a long term agreement with
@JohnDeere
and
@RevelsTractor
.
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Brilliant...
Amazing! The Wilderness at Lake Jackson in Texas expertly planned ahead before Harvey to save their cart fleet and maintenance equipment.
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"I just thought ‘Why wouldn’t we want to do something like this?’"
The Olympic Club is planning to use an all-female volunteer team for
@uswomensopen
course preparations.
#WGDUnites
#WomensGolfDay
#IWD2021
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Congrats to our two Matts:
@MattLaWell
and
@CGCGreenkeeper
. They have both been accepted as Golf Writers Association of America members. Our happy little industry publication now has eight GWAA members who regularly contribute content to its pages.
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.
@KaseyKauff
arrived at Trinity Forest two years before the course opened. He oversees a diverse team responsible for maintaining an 18-hole championship course, par-3 course, expansive practice facilities, and The First Tee of Dallas learning center.
#MakingTheCut
@JohnDeere
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Note to club members everywhere: this sort of thing is much appreciated. 👏👏👏
Had a member stop by the shop today to show his appreciation of our team. I like his style!
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Looks like the secret is out ... The 2018 Kaminski Award winner is
@CGCGreenkeeper
.
#GCITweetUp18
@Aquatrols
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Special Report: GCI study shows 84% of supers want to ban aggressive cleats
http://t.co/F0zU71f9S9
#DefendYourTurf
http://t.co/OtZ5z2K6Ch
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Entering the country speaking no English and never having stepped foot on a golf course, Muhammad Ali climbed the ladder, now overseeing the maintenance of 54 holes across three public courses.
#Inspirations
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That’s a wrap from the
@CarolinasGCSA
Conference and Show. 👏 👏 👏 to
@TKCarolinasGCSA
and team for pulling off a successful return to an in-person format.
#CarolinasShow2021
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A little history: Back in 1926, just three years after Fox Chapel Golf Club opened, a pilot crashed his plane into the 11th green. Some folks jumped up on the plane to help, one man ran toward the photographer, and the groundskeeper ... kept watering the turf.
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It’s been a frantic 6 1/2 years for Old Hickory (Tenn.) CC’s Dan Johnson. He’s been involved in a bent-to-Bermuda greens conversion, the removal of more than 800 trees, a bunker renovation and numerous other enhancements at the 92-year-old club.
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.
@turfgrassbadass
explained on the Wonderful Women of Golf podcast how grit helps her balance raising three children on her own with the demands of a turf career.
#MothersDay
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"He died with almost nothing to his name. Nothing physical that is."
An inspirational story from Ron Furlong about friendships and second chances and filling open positions.
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His work handles all conditions! Columbus Country Club superintendent J.R. Lynn showing us a cleverly renovated Donald Ross gem and some of the course accessories he recently built.
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Think your facility has a lot of equipment?
@TPCSawgrass
equipment manager Mark Sanford and his team are responsible for keeping more than 500 pieces of riding, walking and handheld equipment at a championship level.
#MakingTheCut
@JohnDeere
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The man with an agronomic plan.
@PGATOUR
senior vice president of agronomy Cal Roth working
@GbrClassic
.
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When your course setup duties extend into the closing nine of a thrilling major championship ...
#PGAChamp
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A 580-acre property?
277,000 square feet of greens?
Four acres of bunkers?
A big Nebraska course designed by
@KingCollinsGolf
is set to open for public play in September.
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Hector Velazquez is the longest tenured agronomic employee at
@TPCScottsdale
. This marks his 32nd
@WMPhoenixOpen
since joining the crew in March 1987.
#MakingTheCut
@JohnDeere
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.
@CGCGreenkeeper
won a
@TOCAorg
award last year for his wonderful “America’s Greenkeeper”columns. We promised to hand-deliver the hardware and we finally made it to Charlotte to honor that promise. He accepted the award following a day of “aggressive” verticutting.
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Our November issue is online and packed with features and columns. How about we start with the latest from
@BradleySKlein
, whose three-word headline should be enough to make you want to read the next 757: SUPERINTENDENTS ARE UNDERPAID:
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.
@theREALschoeny
’s career ascent mirrors the ascents and descents he must traverse to lead a loyal crew. He’s 27 and approaching his three-year anniversary as superintendent at stunning Wolf Creek in Mesquite, Nevada.
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Many people are scared to talk about mental health.
Understand what the topic means and how it should be approached among friends:
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BREAKING INDUSTRY NEWS:
@asianturfgrass
has acquired
@paceturf
from founders Drs. Larry Stowell and Wendy Gelernter.
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Meet Bill Brown. He’s 82 and mows rough for the Waste Management Phoenix Open and daily play on the TPC Scottsdale Stadium Course. “The people I work with – and the people I work for – are wonderful,” he says.
#MakingTheCut
@JohnDeere
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Let’s learn. 52 assistant superintendents from the U.S. and Canada are in Raleigh for
@greenstartacdmy
. What would you tell an assistant looking to take the next career step?
@BayerGolf
@JohnDeere
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The Walker Course
@ClemsonUniv
superintendent Don Garrett has been named a
@GCSAA
Grassroots Ambassador Leadership Award winner.
@Clemson_Golf
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Rutgers appoints Murphy to Ralph Geiger Chair: One of the nation’s top turfgrass scientists, James Murphy is the third person appointed to the position:
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Heartiest congratulations to
@bruce_sbmrtn
who earns one academia’s highest honors, the Fred Grau Award:
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Great news from GCI:
@PatJonesTweets
hands editorial reins to
@GCIMagazineGuy
. Jones will continue as editor-at-large as he moves to a role with Harrell’s. Learn more here:
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We get paid to work with words and we can’t find the proper ones to describe the Walter Travis-designed greens Country Club of Scranton director of grounds Aaron Giordano and team brilliantly maintain.
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Details about Chad Mark (
@Invernessturf
) landing his 'dream job' as
@Pblatshaw
's replacement at Muirfield Village.
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Very sad to report that Scott Wiiki - known here as
@p0aanua
- died very suddenly last Wednesday.
#condolences
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The 18th hole at Due Process Stable in Colts Neck, New Jersey, is called “Photo Finish.” And we couldn’t help but use the hole as the scene for a photo of the pair who jockeyed us around the course:
@AhooksHooks
and
@phusby
.
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.
@BigCedarLodge
names new director of agronomy: After 13 years with the
@PebbleBeachGolf
Company, Jeff Steen will oversee all five courses at the Ozarks resort:
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On the other side of the Atlantic,
@GleneaglesGolf
unleashed throwback greenkeeping equipment today to celebrate the 100th birthday of its King's and Queen's courses.
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.
@CarolinasGCSA
members sharing their memories of Steve Wright in Myrtle Beach. Wright was the association’s President in 2002.
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No words...
New personal best! 4 under (32) from 1400 yards. 5 birdies, 3 pars, 1 bogey. Prepping 4
@USKidsGolfFDN
#WorldChampionship
#zerohandicap
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Sweet “
@KylePorterCBS
: This photo of Tiger and the mowers at Augusta is the coolest.
http://t.co/lp9QbZq2XU”
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#aerificationporn
“
@njanovich
: 12mm deep tine tonight and tomorrow.
#SlowMotion
#turfgrass
@Redexim
@KriggerCo
http://t.co/Zgpif30pV9”
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Have any mature pieces of equipment that still serve a useful purpose at your course?
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Quail Hollow's Brandon Hicks, Keith Wood, Shane Omann and Basil Lowell are primed for Charlotte's first
#PGAChampionship
.
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The average superintendent salary now exceeds $100,000, according to a recently released
@GCSAA
member survey.
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Congrats to Russ Myers and team. May in Tulsa should be a wonderful time to host a major tournament.
The PGA of America selects Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Okla., to host the 2022 PGA Championship from May 16-22. Excited to return to SHCC for the fifth time. The course offers a tough-but-fair test for the strongest field in golf.
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One of our industry's greatest technology minds is retiring from
@TheToroCompany
after a tremendous career. Best wishes Dana Lonn!
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Happy 92nd birthday to Pete Dye. Any good pics of superintendents with Pete out there?
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