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...

Merrick Mondays: Save Your Life, Through Moderation

by Owen Jacobs | Dec 8, 2025 | Golf, Merrick Mondays

Describe an incredibly difficult day on the job as a Golf Superintendent and how you overcame or learned from it? Ok, let’s get to the heart attack story I mentioned a few weeks ago. I dropped from a massive heart attack in February when the course was closed due to...

Merrick Mondays: The Sandman and I

by Owen Jacobs | Dec 1, 2025 | Golf, Merrick Mondays

Prompt: Provide a photo or spotlight picture of a colleague or mentor, and provide a written piece of their impact on your life or career Todd Cowing has not technically been an employee of mine, but on paper, maybe one time. I am going to tell the story of Todd, my...

Merrick Mondays: Hidden Gems are Worth the Hard Work

by Owen Jacobs | Nov 24, 2025 | Golf, Merrick Mondays

Where did most of the crew working under you come from? Where were you usually seeing new help get hired from? When I first became the Golf Course Superintendent at The Elkridge Club, there were many full and part time workers that had been there working for many...