By Aquatrols | Like many superintendents in the west, Rick Friedemann has struggled with salt issues on his course for as long as he can remember. Three years ago, he decided he had enough and reached out to Aquatrols Territory Manager, Kenn Mauser for a solution. When Rick Friedemann left his home in the Sooner […]
By: Pat Jones | Paul Golliff was able to conquer wilt and shed some turf anxiety thanks to Zipline and advice from his Aquatrols rep. Even at age 60, the lessons Paul Golliff learned decades ago working for Brian Chalifoux at Olympia Fields still resonate with him. One of those lessons was frugality. “I hate […]
By Pat Jones | How Chicago super Tim Christians uses Zipline in his never-ending fight against mushy greens. Tim Christians sums up how a lot of turfheads feel about the profession with this saying: “I don’t love it because of golf. I love it because of golf courses.” He had another saying when I talked […]
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By Pat Jones The renovation boom of the last decade drove a lot of aspects of our business: construction, irrigation, re-grassing, bunker sand…you name it. But for Nathan Neumann, his restoration at the venerable Oklahoma City CC also provided a unique opportunity to try a new wetting agent. Neumann has been at OKCC for three […]
Those who attended the Turfgrass Talk Show session at the 2016 Golf Industry Show heard from Melvin Duke about the unique challenges he faces as superintendent at Toana Vista Golf Course in Wendover, Nevada. Mel has seen it all in his career as a superintendent. “I’ve been in this industry since they invented dirt,” he […]
Superintendent Derrick Chlopecki calls Revolution his “ace in the hole.” Opened in 1912, Pine Ridge Golf Club is one of the oldest and most revered golf courses in Winnipeg. Not a particularly long course by today’s standards, Pine Ridge challenges golfers with its famously fast undulating greens. Derrick Chlopecki has been the Superintendent at Pine […]
The following appeared in the March 2015 issue of Greenkeeping Magazine. As the past chairman of greens at Golf Course De Pan in the Netherlands, Jan van Mondfrans recounts his experience eliminating irrigation on fairways for an entire growing season with the help of an alkyl-terminated block copolymer surfactant. Golf Course De Pan is a […]
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The Drought of 2012 has been wreaking havoc on food crops across the country. The physical and financial damage has been well documented, with farmers’ struggles becoming a somber staple on the nightly news. However, farmers are not alone in battling the harsh realities of such an extreme summer. At greenhouses and nurseries nationwide, growers […]
