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Merrick Mondays: Your Questions Answered! – 3/30/26
Crabgrass can takeover a lawn or lawn area and be unsightly. This question came from a person in Pennsylvania so I will try to help the best I can. Keep in mind that different parts of the country deal with crabgrass in different ways and at different times of the...
Merrick Mondays: Getting the Important Things Back
I can honestly say, my family and the sacrifices they made over the years. We all talk about family / work balance, but I will tell you that the demands of jobs in turf, not just Superintendents, outweigh the demands of the family. Some will say they can work the...
Merrick Mondays: (A Lot) of General Advice for Golf Course Superintendents
Feel free to add to the list! Always let someone else try the new stuff first before buying/using (Chemicals/Machinery, etc.) Use “Ductile Iron” with plastic coating when fixing large plastic pipe irrigation repairs. Use “yelowmine” pipe for irrigation across a...
Merrick Mondays: Keep It Original
When I became the Golf Course Superintendent of a Seth Raynor course built in 1925, I inherited sixty-one years of tree growth, as well as tree and bushes plantings over those sixty-one years. Right away I started cleaning up under the trees, trimming branches rooting...
Merrick Mondays: Let There Be Grass
This could be on greens, tees, fairways, rough, and other areas. I’d like to zero in on greens for this question. Many golf courses had clay-based greens in the early days and many slowly converted to USGA Spec Greens. As time went on, many benefits were seen for...
Merrick Mondays: Less Water, More Efficiency
People who work in my industry are very good stewards of the earth around them and constantly strive to protect and keep it ecologically sound (and much better than the way they found it). Turf management is a great help to the earth and so is drainage done the right...
Merrick Mondays: Give Back, Get Involved
“Get involved”, is something you hear often when you are part of an organization or group. Giving back to your profession or organization really does help you to feel better about yourself, your career, and the people around you. If you are working for a company that...
Merrick Mondays: Winter Weather Prep (And What Can Happen)
The Clubhouse office called me one winter and said there was a woman trapped in her living room with flooding water coming from the golf course. She called and said she lived in a condo next to the third green at Elkridge Estates. It was pouring down rain in late...
Merrick Mondays: Simple Explanations
This is a great question because some grass will die somewhere for some reason, and you need to know why or at least find out why. As a Golf Course Superintendent (or when I was doing lawn care) owners and members would always ask about a spot they saw somewhere and...
Merrick Mondays: Golf Course Happenings (in the Dead of Night)
I could answer this question with all the peaceful moments seeing nature and the universe at night, feeling closer to God, but honestly it was always having to do with work when going back at night. I did love it though, but golfers may not know that this dedication...