Fort Wayne Country Club and Colonial Oaks GC have installed native wildflowers, grasses and other “prairie plantings and patches” in out-of-play areas and are realizing cost efficiencies from reduced mowing and watering. Golfers’ reactions have been mixed but the trend is likely to continue, in part because of the support and positive reaction the courses…
Cottonwood Creek GC Experiments with Prairie Grass, Wildflowers
The U.S. Golf Association is teaming with the city of Waco, Texas to establish prairie vegetation on about 30 acres of rough, with plans to make Cottonwood a research site for how to make golf courses more ecologically friendly. To determine which unused areas of the course will be converted to native grassland, golfers were fitted with GPS devices to map their movements.
Containing Fuel Costs
After another extremely volatile year in the energy markets, superintendents have learned- and implemented-new tricks for protecting properties against fuel-cost spikes.