Aeration is an essential part of maintaining healthy golf course greens, but timing is just as important as the process itself. Aerating at the right time helps improve soil con...
Maintaining a healthy golf course turf requires proper aeration, but not all aeration methods work the same way. Two of the most common techniques used on golf courses are core ...
Maintaining healthy golf course greens requires regular aeration. Aeration helps relieve soil compaction, improve drainage, and allow air, water, and nutrients to reach the root...
Golf course putting greens require consistent care to maintain healthy turf, smooth surfaces, and reliable playing conditions. While regular mowing, irrigation, and fertilizatio...
Golf course mowers are essential for maintaining consistent playing conditions and a professional appearance. However, even well-maintained equipment eventually develops mechani...
Choosing the right mower is essential for maintaining healthy turf, achieving a consistent playing surface, and managing golf course maintenance costs. With several types of mow...
Maintaining a golf course requires the correct equipment to keep greens, fairways, tees, and roughs in excellent condition. One common question golf course superintendents ask i...
Choosing the right mower is essential for maintaining a healthy, attractive golf course. Two of the most common types of commercial turf equipment are reel mowers and rotary mow...
Golf course reel mowers are designed to deliver a precise, consistent cut needed to maintain healthy greens, tees, and fairways. However, regular maintenance is essential to kee...
Smooth, consistent putting greens are essential to golfers for a high-quality playing experience. When a greens mower leaves uneven cutting patterns, missed grass, streaks, or s...
A properly sharpened reel is essential for producing a clean and precise cut on golf course greens, fairways, and other closely maintained turf. But how do you know when a reel ...
Keeping golf course mower reels properly sharpened is a very important part of maintaining a clean and consistent cut. A sharp reel and a properly adjusted bedknife helps preven...
Golf courses use several different types of mowers to maintain playing surfaces, and greens mowers and fairway mowers are designed for two very different jobs. While both are bu...
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Choosing the best mower for golf course greens is important because the quality and consistency of the cut can have a significant impact on putt...
Buying used golf course equipment can be a smart way to control equipment costs while still getting the performance needed to maintain a golf course. However, with so many manuf...
Golf course equipment is a major investment. Greens mowers, fairway mowers, aerators, utility vehicles, and other turf equipment can represent a significant portion of a course’...
Keeping golf course equipment in good working condition is essential for maintaining consistent turf quality and staying on schedule. But eventually, every mower reaches a point...
Determining the value of used turf equipment can be challenging. Unlike new equipment, used machines can vary significantly in price depending on their age, condition, hours, ma...
Determining the value of used turf equipment is not always as simple as looking at the machine’s age or hours. Two machines of the same make, model, and year can have very diffe...
When it comes to maintaining a golf course, having the right equipment is essential. From greens mowers and fairway mowers to aerators, utility vehicles, sprayers, and other spe...
Purchasing used turf equipment can be an excellent way for golf courses, landscapers, sports facilities, and other turf professionals to control equipment costs. However, purcha...
When buying used golf course equipment, one of the first things buyers look at is the hour meter. While hours are an important factor, they should not be the only consideration....
Buying used golf course equipment can be an excellent way to control maintenance costs while still getting reliable, professional-grade machinery. From greens mowers and fairway mowers to aerators and utility equipment, quality used turf equipment can provide years of service when the right machine is selected.
But how do you know if a used mower or turf-related machine is ...
PondHawk conducting anniversary celebration of its first installation at The Federal Club.
A milestone worth revisiting
When that first unit went into the water, it represented more than a new piece of equipment—it marked the beginning of a long-term approach to pond stewardship built around consistent circulation, practical maintenance, and measurable improvement. The Fed...
Golf industry veteran Josh Ward is tasked with expanding the company’s roster of managed and leased daily-fee courses, private clubs and destination resorts.
In his new role, Ward will lead the company’s growth initiatives across North America, identifying acquisition and management opportunities that align with the organization’s operational capabilities and long-term stra...
The historic club works around numerous challenges, including a lack of irrigated fairways.
That reality shapes nearly every decision the grounds team makes, from how the course is set up day to day to what kinds of agronomic risks are acceptable during stretches of heat, wind, or prolonged dryness. Without consistent moisture across the widest playing surfaces, turf densit...
When the golf season really gets cranking, sometimes we lose touch with our center — the things we hold most dear, and those things that keep us balanced and grounded.
Let’s face it, the further we get into peak season, the more time we end up spending on the golf course, and away from our centers. We become off-balanced the more the course calls to us louder than our famil...
Hawaii’s Kohanaiki has built a solution to ensure its most prized surfaces can handle a tropical environment.
On an island coastline, the elements don’t take breaks. Salt carried on trade winds settles into pores and seams. High humidity keeps moisture present longer than most materials are designed to tolerate. And daily UV exposure can turn beautiful finishes dull and cha...
RainDance National GC features 250 feet of elevation change, while Pelican Lakes Resort and Golf boasts more shoreline than any other course in the country.
That contrast is exactly what makes pairing the two in a single trip so compelling. At RainDance, the movement in the land is part of every decision you make—from choosing a club on a downhill par 3 to shaping a tee sho...
USGA honors superintendent John Jeffreys and team following dramatic 2024 U.S. Open.
Illinois superintendent Stephen Hope produces a potent memoir about his turbulent childhood.
When the person in charge of schools returns to the earliest lessons
There’s a particular kind of tension that arrives when an education leader tells his own story: the reader expects the public steadiness of a superintendent, yet the genre demands private fracture, raw memory, and...
Pure Dynasty with ACCe result of collaboration between Pure-Seed Testing breeding program and University of Georgia.
Agreement with Sensible Weather will include weather guarantees at Troon-managed courses.
Nanotechnology has arrived in the turfgrass industry. What will the presence of tiny particles mean for fertility and plant protectant applications?
From “smaller” to “different”: why scale changes performance
At the nanoscale, materials don’t just get smaller—they can behave differently. Particle size influences surface area, charge, solubility, and how a material interac...
Flagstaff Ranch Golf Club features 21-year-old Jerry Pate-designed course.
Set at a higher elevation than many Arizona layouts, the course rewards players who pay attention to how the ball travels in thinner air and how quickly weather can shift in the pines. Greens tend to play true, but the real test often shows up in approach shots that require the right landing angle an...
When Jeff Whitmire was 12 years old, his request for a birthday/Christmas gift was not the usual. He wanted a copy of Dr. James Beard’s now-classic textbook, Turf Management for Golf Courses. One might say Jeff’s direction in life was pre-ordained at an early age.
Jeff started working at Williamsburg Country Club at age 12 as a cart attendant. He took over as superintendent...
Application period for the 19th annual Green Start Academy training program open through Aug. 1.
What the Green Start Academy offers
Green Start Academy is designed to prepare participants for entry-level careers in sustainability-focused and clean-energy industries. The training emphasizes hands-on learning, professional development, and connections to employers looking f...
