Merrrick Mondays: Man vs. Nature

by Owen Jacobs | Jan 12, 2026 | Golf, Merrick Mondays

Is a golf course a man-made sculpture or a managed wilderness? Where did you draw the line between forcing nature to behave and working within its boundaries? Let’s discuss part one of these two questions and maybe dabble in the second part. I have worked with six...

Merrick Mondays: Me, Steve, and the Farm

by Owen Jacobs | Jan 5, 2026 | Golf, Merrick Mondays

Prompt: Describe a personal figure in your life that helped shape your life, career, or the way you think about the world I was eight years old; it was 1966 and I was standing in a pig pen on my neighbor’s farm holding a piglet’s legs, one under each arm wondering...

Merrick Mondays: The Winter Grind – (Literally)

by Owen Jacobs | Dec 29, 2025 | Golf, Merrick Mondays

Describe what it takes to have a successful Winter offseason on a Golf Course, to maintain conditions come Spring For Golf Maintenance different climates have different winter offseason work, but I will answer from the Mid-Atlantic area perspective. Remember though,...

Merrick Mondays: Changing of the Guard – How New Generations of Turf Managers Change Holes on the Golf Course

by Owen Jacobs | Dec 22, 2025 | Golf, Merrick Mondays

Describe how employees under your guidance were utilized based on their strengths in certain areas of Turf Management Wow! Changing the holes every day just came to my mind with this prompt! There was never a class in school about changing the holes, you just learned...

Merrick Mondays: Generations, Personalities, and Being the Life of the Party

by Owen Jacobs | Dec 14, 2025 | Golf, Merrick Mondays

Describe a moment that caused your longstanding philosophies to change or evolve? I have mentioned, “Fifty Years Old and Out” a couple of times in my blogs. This is something that many Golf Course Superintendents would say in the 1980’s and 1990’s about when it was...