A profile in the Finger Lakes Times highlighted how the 127-year-old club, which has the oldest continuously operational nine-hole golf course in the U.S., has “changed its model, creating a for-profit, mostly member-owned club that set [it] onto a path of prosperity and growth.” The club’s membership has doubled since its new shareholder program and status was instituted in 2009.

The Big Ten Conference has selected Baltimore Country Club as the site of its 2017 and 2018 Men’s Golf Championships, which will be played in Lutherville, Md. on the club’s Five Farms East course. In Quechee, Vt., The Quechee Club is set to host the Third Annual Quechee Collegiate Challenge, for 33 men’s and ladies teams from 29 Division I and II schools in the Northeast.

Scientists from NASA, Columbia University, and Cornell University are predicting that the chance of a 35-year or longer drought in the Southwest and central Great Plains are above 80 percent.

Bradley H. Stone, President and partner in Gaming Asset Management LLC, has committed the gift to endow and name the deanship of the Ithaca, N.Y., school.

Sanford Golf Design has been honored by the Florida Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects for “[blending] environmental and artistic principles” while creating the unique public course that is set to open next year on a former blighted landfill in the Bronx, New York.

To highlight the value of turfgrass, the superintendents’ organization and its philanthropic arm have become Silver Partners for the collaborative effort between the USDA and the National Turfgrass Federation.