Golf course planning takes time, research, insight and money, but Mike Hurdzan says the improvement planning process is not complicated if the following steps are followed: Get up-to-date, very detailed aerial photos and contour mapping of at least two-foot contours; one foot is better. Select a qualified golf course architect and assemble a planning team. Analyze the entire property for [...]
This month, the name for our regular feature needs to be amended a bit because this isn’t a pure “Super to Super” conversation, but rather one between a super (me) and a super who’s gone on to become, among many other things, a Ph.D., golf course architect, author, environmental leader, and prestigious award winner. The man behind that weighty title [...]
Selected findings of the Rocky Mountain GCSA study • The golf industry contributed $15,730 per acre of land and $11,667 per acre-foot of water in direct revenues to Colorado’s economy. • Of Colorado golf courses’ 36,500 total acres, only 19,800 acres (54.2 percent) were irrigated turfgrass. • One-third of the state’s golf course acreage is unmaintained land that serves wildlife [...]
Ricky Heine, General Manager and Director of Grounds, The Golf Club Star Ranch Ricky Heine lives today in the same small Texas town where he grew up. But while he’s called the same place home for 44 years, Ricky’s life and career has been anything but routine or predictable. Most recently, Ricky was elected as the 71st President of [...]
While some superintendents are just now developing serious strategies for water conservation on their courses, Scott Anderson, CGCS, has made a career out of learning how to produce ideal, firm and fast playing conditions with a minimum of moisture. As the Head Superintendent since 1983 at Huntingdon Valley (Pa.) Country Club (HVCC) in suburban Philadelphia, Anderson is legendary for [...]
Revised April 20, 2005 Golf Course Superintendent: Scott Anderson Asst. Golf Course Superintendent: Gabe Wochley, Lindsey Baker Greens Committee Members: Michael Dougherty, Green Chairmen, Harry Lonsdale III, Nancy Michener, Dan Kelley, John Luviano Jr., Robert O'Connor, Dr. John Carabello, and Doug Gregor Mission: To prepare and preserve the golf course as Huntingdon Valley Country Club's major asset and as its [...]
GOLF COURSE SUPERINTENDENT RESPONSIBILITIES & SKILLS REQUIRED Today's golf course superintendent must possess a certain amount of knowledge and expertise in the following subject areas: Accounting Agronomy Aquatic plant management Arboriculture Basic contract law Budgeting Business management Community relations Computers Drainage Electrical Engineering Entomology Equipment repair Environmental compliance Facility maintenance Financial Genetics Golf course operation Golf course renovation Golf course [...]
Since its inception a little more than 10 years ago, Pilgrim’s Run Golf Club, in Pierson, Mich., has already earned a ranking by Michigan Golf magazine as a top-10 public facility, as well as accolades from Golf Digest and other publications as one of the country’s best, and most affordable, new public courses. And in 2007, Pilgrim’s Run will host [...]
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