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PEOPLE LIKED THE NAME WELL ENOUGH. 'BIGFISH SPIRITS' WAS fun and out of the ordinary. It caught your attention. But several months into his online business--which aggregates craft spirits from [...]

Allen Johnson, fields manager for the Green Bay Packers, doesn't revel in the cool factor of his job. What motivates him is the responsibility the job brings, not the pomp [...]

SUSTAINABILITY CAME TO LIGHT in the golf course maintenance industry several years ago because golf courses need a formal plan to be profitable businesses while being environmental stewards to prove [...]

More golf course superintendents are using soil surfactants these days than people are watching 'Dancing With the Stars,' which is saying a lot. Some reports say the number of superintendents [...]

They nicknamed it 'The Bone' for a few apt reasons. First, Camelback Golf Club's Indian Bend Course, located in Paradise Valley, Arizona, was shaped like a bone. Second, the 18-hole [...]

IT'S MAY, AND MARYLAND-BASED GOLF COURSE Superintendent Mike Salvio knows what's lurking down the calendar--the sizzling heat and stifling humidity of a mid-Atlantic summer, which makes this region one of [...]

ON JUNE 15, THE FINAL ROUND OF THE MEN'S U.S. OPEN and the day before the first practice round of the women's U.S. Open, Bob Farren will be busier than [...]

LAST OCTOBER, on a cool morning after a hard overnight rain, Pat Daly ventured onto the golf course at Framingham (Mass.) Country Club to check on its newly renovated bunkers. [...]

WITH RESPECT TO 'STAR TREK' FANS, golf course superintendents will not be 'beamed' around their golf courses as a way of transport in 2050. They'll still travel by golf car [...]

There were 561 exhibitors spread across 184,500 square feet in the Orange County Convention Center at the Golf Industry Show in Orlando, Fla., last month. There were 14,147 attendees and [...]

When the phone rang, Lloyd McKenzie had no idea he was about to take a call that would change his life as a golf course superintendent. It was a routine [...]

It was a rotten spring for golf last year in Chaska, Minn., site of Hazeltine National Golf Club. The 18-hole private club opened May 1, two weeks later than normal, [...]

FORGIVE RHETT EVANS, CEO of the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America (GCSAA) and an avid runner, for the metaphor he makes when talking about the state of the association. [...]

Byline: Lawrence Aylward The 2017 Private Label Hall of Fame inductees spearheaded significant changes in private brand partnerships, product development and promotion Champions of quality products and optimum supplier-retailer partnerships, [...]

Byline: Lawrence Aylward Retailers could heighten awareness, sales with healthy offerings 'Me want healthy cookie!' Maybe the Cookie Monster from 'Sesame Street' announcing this wouldn't be much of a stretch [...]

Byline: Lawrence Aylward Our State of the Industry survey reaffirms that retailers and suppliers continue to embrace natural/organics to grow store brands The big reveal from our 2017 State of [...]

You first notice them on your way to the first tee. You're cruising down the cart path in your golf car when you come upon them--and you're wowed. To the [...]

Byline: Lawrence Aylward Two of the nation's grocers----ShopRite and Aldi----recently introduced initiatives that embrace the free-from movement. In December, ShopRite, which operates more than 270 stores in the eastern United [...]

Byline: Lawrence Aylward Supermarket chain's 'relentless pursuit' of customer service includes the value it places on its own brands. It's the reason Publix is our 2017 Retailer of the Year [...]

Byline: Lawrence Aylward Americans are embracing vitamins and supplements for many reasons, providing a healthy opportunity for private branded products Driven by consumers who want to be healthy and fit, [...]

Byline: Lawrence Aylward Opportunities exist for supermarkets to grow store brands, a new FMI report outlines While dollar sales of private brand products have been slumping at supermarkets and other [...]

Byline: Lawrence Aylward Tops Friendly Markets transforms private brand line from product to packaging John Persons has a history with Tops Friendly Markets. The 50-year-old president and chief operating officer [...]

Byline: Lawrence Aylward Retailers should consider offering 'beach-front property' to items in this category It's a train that retailers need to jump on. And if they're already on it, they [...]

Byline: Lawrence Aylward Speakers at PLMA's Private Label Trade Show touched on everything from Amazon to deflation to Donald Trump The 2016 Private Label Trade Show took over the Rosemont [...]

Quietly, the golf course maintenance industry made major news in January when Bayer CropScience's Environmental Science division began offering the biofungicide Rhapsody to superintendents. Basic chemical manufacturers aren't supposed to [...]

Don Spier likes to talk about the Florida golf course that has saved $50,000 to $100,000 a year on electricity costs since implementing a soil surfactant program. It's clear that [...]

David Robinson considers himself an environmentally minded superintendent, noting that the first golf course he worked on out of college was an eco-friendly one. 'It was the science and challenge [...]

IT'S HISTORIC, BUT IT'S NOT ABOUT MAKING HISTORY. While Pinehurst No. 2 is doing that by hosting the men's and women's U.S. Opens during back-to-back weeks in June, that distinction [...]

Now I can say I've been educated at the prestigious Wake Forest University's school of business. So can 24 golf course superintendents who attended the fifth-annual Syngenta Business Institute (SBI) [...]

I know plenty of people who deflect criticism, never wanting to take responsibility for something they did wrong. Unfortunately, people who pass the blame are as plentiful as balls hit [...]

This is the fourth year of our Golf & Sustainability supplement. When we did the first supplement three years ago, we didn't know if it would become an annual project. [...]

When you hear the word 'sustainability' what do you do? Do you roll your eyes? Do you mutter to yourself, 'I hate that word.' Do you say, 'Ah, sustainability, that's [...]

You have to hand it to David Withers, president of Jacobsen. You know the guy is busier than a brigadier general, but he took time out from his busy schedule [...]

Paul Carter says he has been accused of tooting his horn too often for his environmental approach toward golf course maintenance. And that's a shame because Carter's horn needs to [...]

I call Jeff Carlson the thinking man's superintendent. So it's no wonder he has a brilliant idea. First, a little bit about Carlson before getting to his idea. He is [...]

Golf Course Superintendent Matt Kregel is a lifelong Chicago Bears fan. You could call him a Superfan, just like the ones from the old 'Saturday Night Live' skit. And guess [...]

The Golf Industry Show--and the golf course maintenance industry in general--passed a major test last month. If attendance and exhibit space had been down for the show in Orlando--a place [...]

When I spoke to Russ Appel last month, the superintendent at Briggs Woods Golf Course was thrilled about rounds and revenue going up at his track, a municipal course in [...]

Patrick Drickey is thankful for the visual treats he gets to photograph --some of the greatest golf courses in the world. But Drickey, whose new book 'Green Glory: A Visual [...]

Dale Carnegie's 'How to Win Friends and Influence People' was one of the first self-help books ever published and is regarded as one of the greatest self-help books ever. I [...]

The back of Scott May's neck was stinging from a sunburn. The turfgrass at Manufacturers Golf & Country Club in Fort Washington, Pa., where May was golf course superintendent, was [...]

The article focuses on Paul B. Latshaw, golf course superentendent at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio. It mentions that Latshaw has previously worked as golf course superintendent at Oak Hill Country Club until he was employed by former champion golfer Jack Nicklaus to work in Muirfield. It adds that Latshaw has a bachelor's degree from Pennsylvania State University and has a two-year degree in turf management.

The article offers information on the issues of the periodical for different months of the year 2016. Topics discussed include February issue reporting on challenges faced by chemical manufacturers in bringing new fungicides to the marketplace, March issue presenting questions about the state of the golf economy and June issue focusing on synthetic pesticides and fertilizer.

The article focuses on the maintenance budget of the golf courses in the U.S. and informations regarding advancements in the fairway mowers for meeting golf course maintenance needs. Topics discussed includes use of diesel engines that reduces air pollution as per the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, views of Tracy Lanier, product manager at John Deere Golf on strategies of golf course superintendents, and use of lawn mowers LF550/570 and LF557/577 in golf courses.

The article features golf superintendents who were commenting on the November 8, 2016 U.S. presidential election and its impact on the golf course maintenance industry. Topics include Brian Stiehler and Time Hiers who will be voting for Republican candidate Donald Trump, citing him as the lesser of the two evils. Also mentioned are Mitchell Wilkerson and Matt Doran who are leaning toward voting for Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and a poll showing the unpopularity of the two candidates.

The article focuses on the employment of developmentally disabled people at Westfield Group Country Club for golf course maintenance. Topic discussed includes hiring people with disabilities like Down syndrome and learning disability, making them realize their working potential and views of Mark Jordan, golf course superintendent at Westfield Group Country Club, on the same.

The article discusses the maintenance and repair of golf course at Oakmont Country Club in Oakmont, Pennsylvania for the 2016 U.S. Open golf tournament held in June 2016. It mentions that the maintenance team was led by golf course superintendent John Zimmers who considered the activity as one of the most incredible things happened in his life. It notes that the golf course was strike by a lightning that damaged the irrigation system.

The article features golf course superintendent Mark Kuhns who will host his sixth major tournament which is the PGA Championship on the Lower Course of Baltusrol Golf Club in July 2016. It mentions that Kuhns hosted his first major tournament as golf course superintendent at Laurel Valley Golf Club in Ligonier, Pennsylvania in 1989.

The article features Neil Cleverly, golf course superintendent of Olympic Golf Course in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil who discusses the design and construction of the golf course for the 2016 Rio Olympics that was built on a nature reserve. It notes that the golf course was designed by golf course architect Gil Hanse.

The article focuses on the environmental and sustainability programs of golf course superintendents in the U.S. Topics covered include the goal of TPC Stonebrae Country Club's Dave Davies to preserve the environment, the plan by Leavenworth Golf Club's Ivan Gibbs to control anthracnose through fertility and cultural practices and the implementation of blueprints for fertilization.