If I could identify one theme that came up time and time again the past few days, it was that we're all in this together.
With the Industry stabilized and a great deal of thought and effort going into growing both the game and the long-term health of golf, the notion that we can somehow continue to work in silos has to be abolished. This idea that supers and sales are somehow on opposite sides of a fence Is completely bogus. Instead, we need teamwork at every level -- particularly superintendents and suppliers -- and I heard and saw evidence of that repeatedly the last three days.
Yesterday, I gave a talk on that very topic to the Brandt/Grigg Brothers team. The bottom line, I suggested, is that good companies need to be great consultants for superintendents as much as they are great product suppliers. Looking around that room and seeing the knowledge base Gary Grigg and his group have assembled over the years makes it obvious that companies like theirs can be hugely helpful to any super.
I heard a great deal about teamwork come out of the mouths of John Zimmers, Mark Kuhns, Greg James and other top-level supers at BASF's booth where I hosted a Q&A on creating championship conditions for big events and daily play. Every one of the great supers there said, in essence, that it takes a village to deliver that level of quality and that suppliers like BASF are critical, not just for resources but for expertise and ideas.
Finally, at our 2017 TweetUp, I heard numerous social media leaders talk about how Twitter and other platforms have given us global assets and information to help solve problems.
The days of the solo super trying to run a successful operation without help are over. Welcome to the new, and better world of teamwork. May it make all of us better.
With the Industry stabilized and a great deal of thought and effort going into growing both the game and the long-term health of golf, the notion that we can somehow continue to work in silos has to be abolished. This idea that supers and sales are somehow on opposite sides of a fence Is completely bogus. Instead, we need teamwork at every level -- particularly superintendents and suppliers -- and I heard and saw evidence of that repeatedly the last three days.
Yesterday, I gave a talk on that very topic to the Brandt/Grigg Brothers team. The bottom line, I suggested, is that good companies need to be great consultants for superintendents as much as they are great product suppliers. Looking around that room and seeing the knowledge base Gary Grigg and his group have assembled over the years makes it obvious that companies like theirs can be hugely helpful to any super.
I heard a great deal about teamwork come out of the mouths of John Zimmers, Mark Kuhns, Greg James and other top-level supers at BASF's booth where I hosted a Q&A on creating championship conditions for big events and daily play. Every one of the great supers there said, in essence, that it takes a village to deliver that level of quality and that suppliers like BASF are critical, not just for resources but for expertise and ideas.
Finally, at our 2017 TweetUp, I heard numerous social media leaders talk about how Twitter and other platforms have given us global assets and information to help solve problems.
The days of the solo super trying to run a successful operation without help are over. Welcome to the new, and better world of teamwork. May it make all of us better.
