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Writing can be soothing, therapeutic and make you famous.
OK, the last part of that sentence is a linguistic bend.
Let’s replace the f word above with another f word. Writing can be fulfilling, especially when the words land in a glossy, hold-in-your-hands, perhaps frame-on-your-wall, print magazine.
Golf Course Industry’s popular and enduring Turfheads Take Over issue turns 10 in December. The premise behind the issue: We fill the feature section with articles crafted by people who work in the industry.
Superintendent. Asssistant superintendent. Assistant to the assistant superintendent. Equipment manager. Researcher. Sales stalwart. Builder. Architect. Student. Lover of golf courses. Cart control official. Chief happiness officer.
Titles don’t matter. What matters is that industry professionals share stories and ideas with peers in print.
Topics also don’t matter. It’s your space and your call on the subject you want to expand upon.
To provide motivation and direction, here’s a condensed list of topics explored in previous Turfheads Take Overs:
- Handling a challenging year (sound familiar these days?)
- Personal career journeys
- Odes to inspirational coworkers or colleagues
- Managing a team
- Identifying and retaining a workforce
- Retirement
- The why behind golf
- Technical turf guidance
- Professional relationships
- Preserving a special place
- Runaway tractors
We’re flexible on article length, although it takes at least 500 words to fill an entire page. We’ve found space for submissions exceeding 2,000 words. We already have one 2025 submission eclipsing 4,000 words!
Have you produced an article for your chapter publication and want to give it national attention? No problem. We’re happy to use our reach to broaden your audience while giving tagline attention to your chapter. Turfheads Take Over also provides a fabulous way to meet a certification requirement or bring attention to the “hidden gem” your team works exhaustively to maintain.
Deadlines represent the lone rigid requirement. Receiving articles and accompanying imagery by Monday, Nov. 3 will help us assemble the most effective December issue possible. Email articles to senior editor Matt LaWell at mlawell@gie.net.
Once you get started, you might realize writing for a printed magazine can be fun.
Enough with the f words.
Get writing.
Or … get grilling
If writing still isn’t your thing, we have another clever tactic to get published in our December issue: the fifth annual Turfheads Guide to Grilling.
Becoming a formal griller is straightforward. Select a tasty recipe, then email ingredients, instructions and images to digital editor Kelsie Horner at khorner@gie.net by Nov. 3.
While contributing an article cultivates enduring fulfillment, submitting a recipe yields swag. The nine grillers whose recipes we publish will receive a handsome and sturdy Turfheads Grilling metal sign and a prep bucket with a built-in cutting board. Grillers are entered in a drawing for our team to visit your course in 2026 for a cookout.
Earlier this year, we visited Windham Mountain Club in New York’s Catskill Mountains for the fourth annual Turfheads Grilling cookout.
Get grilling.
Guy Cipriano is Golf Course Industry’s publisher + editor-in-chief. You can also email him articles and recipes at gcipriano@gie.net, but he secretly enjoys seeing Matt’s and Kelsie’s inboxes get filled.
