Features: • We designed this very elegant stacking hardwood chair for the Claremont Country Club in Oakland, Calif., in July of 2013. This spring, we took our 22nd and repeat order from the Rolling Rock Club in Pennsylvania • No other chair offers this level of elegance and comfort in a full-function stacking hardwood chair…
Keeping It Real
More properties are finding that by providing players with golf simulators that offer the next best thing to actually being elsewhere, they can generate tangible new revenue streams and member/guest benefits for their own locations.
GCSAA Announces Environmental Leaders in Golf Winners
Anthony L. Williams, CGCS, Director of Golf and Landscape Operations of TPC Four Seasons Golf and Sports Club in Irving, Texas, has been chosen as the Overall and National Private recipient, while Jay Neunsinger of Boundary Oak Golf Course in Walnut Creek, Calif., is the National Public course winner, and Scott Main, CGCS, Mauna Kea…
Broken Sound Club’s Shannon Easter Leads Environmental Leaders in Golf Awards
The maintenance director and environmental consultant at the Boca Raton, Fla. property has been selected as the Overall and National Private recipient of the annual awards that recognize superintendents and their golf courses for overall excellence and best management practices. Alex Stuedemann of TPC Deere Run (Public Course) and Ken Nice of Bandon Dunes Golf Resort (Resort Course) were also selected for national recognition.
Applied Science
Industry advances are helping golf course superintendents manage spray applications of chemicals and fertilizers in ways that are safer and more effective for humans, plants and the environment.
Las Positas GC’s Condos Earns Superintendents’ Highest Environmental Honor
Mark Condos, Superintendent of the Livermore, Calif., course, has been named the Overall and National Public recipient of the 2015 Environmental Leaders in Golf Awards. Dave Davies of TPC Stonebrae in Hayward, Calif., is the National Private winner. Fourteen regional winners and one merit winner were also named.
Consumer Website Lists Best Golf Courses Near Busy Airports
Options for getting in a quick round before catching a flight in Atlanta, L.A. and New York aren’t great, GolfAdvisor.com says, but many other major hubs offer experiences that will go beyond the thrill of trying to get off a good shot under the roar of low-flying jets.
Vandals Damage Sawgrass CC Greens Mid-Renovation
A golf cart joy ride caused extensive damage to the Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., golf course that could cost up to $10,000. In Oakland, Calif., burglars stole a city-owned pickup truck to rob the Montclair Golf Course.
Environmental Leaders in Golf Award Winners Announced
The Golf Course Superintendents Association of America and Golf Digest have named the 2013 winners, including Paul L. Carter, of The Bear Trace at Harrison Bay in Harrison, Tenn., as the overall winner. Golf course superintendents and their courses that have been named winners will be formally recognized February 5 at the 2014 Golf Industry Show in Orlando.