Chefs across the country are broadening their horizons to bring their clubs’ signature styles to the great outdoors.
Poultry in Motion
With its endless versatility and healthful profile, poultry might just be the perfect protein.
Finishing with a Flourish
Need some new ways to tempt more of your diners to indulge in dessert? Try mini-portions, fresh fruits and nostalgic favorites with a twist.
Off to a Great Start
A strategic approach to appetizers as “an introduction to the club’s focus on food” has made them anything but an afterthought at Olympia Fields CC.
All Systems Go
Oakmont Country Club offers proof that with equal parts planning and precision, you can successfully integrate your systems-and the operations they run.
Making a Splash
A solid water recreation program can be a family-friendly amenity that reinforces member and guest loyalty.
The Fine Art of Landscaping
SUMMING IT UP • Landscaping that fits in with the aesthetics of golf can help to achieve desired goals for providing challenging play and creating fulfilling golf experiences. • greater orientation to landscaping can fit in with properties’ environmental objectives. •landscape design philosophy should revolve around telling the story of your club in chapters. Golf…
Teaching the Next Tiger
With banks of monitors, multiple video cameras and cables snaking everywhere, the Golf Academy at The Club at Cordillera in Vail, Colo., looks more like the Batcave than a learning facility. But that’s just the way Director of Golf Instruction Tom Stickney II wants it. A self-described tech junkie, Stickney is one of the nation’s…
Tying It All Together
Signage, flags and flagsticks, ball washers, yardage markers, even benches; they can all be used to subtly create a clean, unifying look. It’s an effective way to enhance a club’s prestige while promoting its attention to detail. For some resorts, it’s as simple as putting their logo on all fixtures. But at Bay Creek Resort…
Top Dressing for Success
Summing It Up •Enhanced features on topdressing equipment now allow budget-minded supers to precisely control how much material they output, and also cut down on labor. •As with most things, communicating the benefits of topdressing practices to staff, members and guests is paramount. •Topdressing can also help add nutrients without use of chemicals. To the…
Is the Grass Always Greener?
Summing It Up •New varieties of genetically modified grasses may revolutionize turf maintenance. •The cost of switching to a salt-tolerant grass may be preferable to installing a new irrigation system or desalination plant. • Switching to a cool-season turfgrass may require some sacrifice of tee times. Desperate times do indeed call for desperate measures. After…
Into the Swing of Things
Summing It Up Open communication between student and teacher aids quicker learning and spurs long-term interest in the game. There are differences in how men, women and children learn the game. Successful instruction programs take the time to customize lessons for the various student groups. Accredit your course as “beginner-friendly” by applying for NGCOA certification,…
Putting You In That New Car
Summing It Up The quest to enhance the golfing experience has spurred the development of a “luxury vehicle” golf cart market. High energy bills and other rising costs of operation have put renewed focus on smarter cart maintenance practices. Carts that are easier to access and operate allow older or less-mobile players to still enjoy…
Nothing to Hide
Summing It Up Know what you want, what you need, and the difference between the two before upgrading or building a new maintenance facility Equipment wash areas that use recycled water can reduce harmful runoff and simultaneously conserve water. Even if your budget doesn’t allow for a state-of-the-art building, do-it yourself upgrades—like a refurbished break…
Irrigation Without Irritation
Jane Hall can certainly relate to how the turf industry has changed over the past 20 years. Like a lot of her colleagues, she came over from the landscape side to be a course superintendent. She remembers hydraulic irrigation and antiquated solenoids that made digging anywhere on the course a potentially shocking experience. Now that…