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Features - Supplement |
| Smart Irrigation: Water, Water Everywhere |
7/28/2010 |
| Back in mid-April, I attended the 2010 Intelligent Use of Water Summit in Washington D.C. that explored some of the key water conservation issues facing the green industry. |
| By: Mike Zawacki |
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Features - Supplement |
| Smart Irrigation: Deep Access |
7/28/2010 |
| Providing users with more detailed data, Toro’s recently released Lynx irrigation control system has begun to make waves. |
| By: John Torsiello |
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Features - Supplement |
| Smart Irrigation: Sensing moisture |
7/28/2010 |
| As legislative pressure to limit water usage increases, soil moisture sensing systems are becoming the go-to tools for smart water practices. |
| By: John Torsiello |
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Features - Supplement |
| Smart Irrigation: Irrigation issues: A salty option |
7/28/2010 |
| For those of you who remember the ‘80s and early ‘90s, the first thing a golf course design firm would ask a prospective client was simply, “Do you have the enough land and financial capability to build a golf course?” Today the first question is the above and, “Do you have the quantity and quality of water needed to support a golf course?” |
| By: Erik Christiansen |
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Features - Supplement |
| Smart Irrigation: All Wet |
7/28/2010 |
| Correcting the problem of hydrophobic soils, superintendents utilize wetting agents to lower irrigation costs. |
| By: Brittany Schmigel |
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Features - Supplement |
| Smart Irrigation: Products |
7/28/2010 |
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| By: GCI Staff |
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Departments - Teeing off |
| Flash! |
7/27/2010 |
| Breaking news often comes at inconvenient times for those of us who are still in the business of printing it on dead trees and entrusting it to the Pony Express…er, I mean U.S. Post Office…to deliver to you. |
| By: Pat Jones |
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Departments - Letters |
| Letters to the Editor |
7/27/2010 |
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Departments - The Whiteboard |
| Whiteboard |
7/27/2010 |
| The weird, wonderful and wild from around the world of golf course maintenance. |
| By: GCI Staff |
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Departments - Consumer research |
| Tracking golf rainwear and windwear buyers |
7/27/2010 |
| Customer profiles are important tools to drive revenue at any golf course facility. The National Golf Foundation released its “Golf Consumer Buying Profiles” last June based on a survey of 2,400 adult core golfers. The research was conducted in November 2008. Core golfers play eight or more rounds per year. Data is based on individuals who bought at least one of the following items in the past 12 months at any type of store. |
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Departments - Travels with Terry |
| Travels with Terry |
7/27/2010 |
| Globetrotting consulting agronomist Terry Buchen visits many golf courses annually with his digital camera in hand. He will share helpful ideas relating to maintenance equipment from the golf course superintendents he visits – as well as a few ideas of his own – with timely photos and captions that explore the changing world of golf course management. |
| By: Terry Buchen |
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Column - Outside the ropes |
| The original home of firm and fast |
7/27/2010 |
| We are in the midst of championship golf season with my favorite – The Open Championship – to be contested at the home of golf, the Old Course at St. Andrews. |
| By: Tim Moraghan |
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Column - Design concepts |
| Shot Values |
7/27/2010 |
| “Shot Values” is a maddeningly vague term that I have been trying to define for years. The book “Golf Course Design” (by Geoff Cornish and Robert Muir Graves) says shot values are a “reflection of what the hole demands and the relative reward or punishment it metes out for good and bad shots… Each hole must be designed to balance risk and reward,” and as “related to difficulty and allowable margin for error.” |
| By: Jeffrey D. Brauer |
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Column - The Monroe Doctrine |
| Making the most of it |
7/27/2010 |
| Jeff Carlson was in our town last winter for a speaking engagement. He’s one of our best golf course superintendents, a pioneer and leader in developing an organic approach to course management. |
| By: Monroe Miller |
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Column - Parting shots |
| For the Record |
7/27/2010 |
| A quarter of a century ago, when I started my first real job in this business as a cub reporter for GCSAA, one of my very first assigned tasks was to review, sort through and organize about a kazillion photos and slides that were carefully stored in cardboard boxes, brown paper bags and various other receptacles around the old association headquarters in Lawrence. |
| By: Pat Jones |
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