Posts By Jeff Shelley
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1.5KArticlesUSGA Seeks to Optimize Maintenance Costs through Revolutionary New Tool
Patrons often view golf courses as mere fields of play. But insiders know that those well-tended expanses are, in fact, businesses that...
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2.2KArticlesPart 4: Pioneers of the Golf Industry – Alister MacKenzie
Editor’s Note: This is the fourth in a series of articles about the people who helped pioneer, promulgate and popularize the game...
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2.7KArticlesPart 2: Pioneers of the Golf Industry – Francis Ouimet
Editor’s Note: This is a second in a series of articles about the people who helped pioneer, promulgate and popularize the game...
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2.1KArticlesGreen Committee Chairs Must Perform a Balancing Act
Although it’s an entirely voluntary position, the person leading a club’s Green Committee must be keenly in sync with not only the...
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2.3KArticlesPioneers of the Golf Industry: Old Tom Morris
The first person who helped advance golf out of obscurity was unquestionably Old Tom Morris, who was born in 1821 as Thomas...
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2.0KArticlesPart 2 of Down Under Series: New Zealand Supers Share Kinship with American Cousins
Deer, raccoons, crows, coyotes, alligators, herons, bears, geese, rabbits, squirrels, turtles, rattlesnakes, frogs, ducks, Canada geese, elk, bald eagles, trout and robins....
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1.5KArticlesPart 1: Golf in the Land of Beauty (and Sheep)
Australia and New Zealand may be too remote of a travel destination for many Americans. But the effort – factoring in serious...
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6.9KArticlesA Must-Read for Golf Course Superintendents
With apologies to their fellow workers, golf course superintendents are the unquestioned intellectuals at most golf courses. After all, the majority of...
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1.6KArticlesEfforts to Return Golf to the Fore
Everyone knows that golf’s participation levels and once-respectable legions of players have tumbled in recent years. The numbers – both in new...
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2.4KArticlesThe Life of a USGA Agronomist
Outside of longtime touring professionals, Larry Gilhuly ranks among golf’s all-time peripatetic people, although you might not have foreseen that back in...