Profiles

Lack of topsoil, pesticide ban pose challenge to lawn care professionals in Newfoundland
A lack of topsoil in Canada’s easternmost province is challenge enough for lawn care professionals. Add to that a provincial ban on pesticide use, and the industry in Newfoundland and Labrador is hard pressed to deliver the level of service customers have come to expect. Read More

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Maintaining turf, tending a farm, riding dressage: all in a day's work for Foxbridge Golf Club
If the turfgrass maintenance industry is supposed to be a man’s world—particularly in the golf sector—someone forgot to tell Leasha Schwab. Read More

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Chedoke joins esteemed Thompson Society
The Stanley Thompson Society has inducted the Chedoke Civic Golf Club in Hamilton, Ont. as its newest member club. Read More

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A burning desire

So I’m thinking about burning down my house.

Got everything I need in the garden shed to pull this off. Jerrican of gasoline and some old road flares ought to do the trick.

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Golfer falls 18 feet into sinkhole
A 43-year-old golfer in Illinois fell into an 18-foot-deep sinkhole while getting ready to hit his next shot during a round with his friends. He was fortunate to escape with nothing worse than a dislocated shoulder.
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The wrinkles my kids gave me
I had always thought that someone had done the decent thing when my dad died.

I thought we’d all agreed on cremation. Read More

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Preparations, challenges and outcomes for the Ryder Cup at Medinah Country Club
Getting the Medinah Country Club’s No. 3 course ready for the 2012 Ryder Cup was, for the most part, a standard operation. With five years’ notice, superintendent Curtis Tyrrell had the time he needed to ensure his greens, tees, fairways and rough met the specifications prescribed by the PGA of America and the home U.S. team. Read More

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Superintendent of the year says education must continually be pursued to stay on top
After almost 33 years as the superintendent at Victoria, B.C.’s Uplands Golf Club, Brian Youell has experienced the change in the nature of his profession over the decades, from that of a hands-on turfgrass management practitioner to one which has evolved into more of a business manager. Read More

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