I have worked with six different Golf Course Architects in my 52-year career and thousands of “Armchair Expert” architects. Have you? How did you do? If not, are you prepared? Most golf courses have been built with a vision and a purpose in mind. Could be from a golf architect, an owner of the land, a group of investors, a government agency, etc. So here is my answer to the first question: The golf course was sculpted by nature and man from a piece of land – created by God, and that sculpted wilderness is managed by man and mother nature. Make any sense?

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 what was going on. My best friend Steve had just chased it, caught it, and helped me tuck one of its legs under each...

For Golf Maintenance different climates have different winter offseason work, but I will answer from the Mid-Atlantic area perspective. Remember though, conditions still had to be great for golfers, particularly if there was no snow or was an unusually warm winter....

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 it and did it somewhere during your career in golf management and no one liked doing it! Most people have no clue how...

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 time to get out of that role and do something else like sales. We Superintendents...

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 some snow cover and wet conditions. It happened on the sixth fairway as my Assistant Superintendent Blaine and I...

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 salesperson, colleague, and ultimately my good friend, and how he has drastically influenced my life since meeting him in 1987. He won’t...