Category Archives: Golf Maintenance

Products and Practices

Got ice?

Good year for ice rinks of the homebuilt kind.  Couple years ago, I asked members of our MGCSA to submit photos of ice rinks they had made either at their course or at home.  Got some great photos.  Seems Minnesota isn’t the only state that likes to skate. Adama Ikamas, CGCS sent in a photo from Crystal [...]

Accessory Tips and Maintenance – Rakes and Flagsticks

Go through your bunker rakes.  Replacing broken heads and damaged handles.  A hodgepodge of types, colors and conditions will be noticed by the golfers. Finally, a number of courses in our area use last year’s flag sticks, cups and flags for the early days of the season and then put out all new for the [...]

Accessory Tips – Benches, Divot Mix & Broken Tees

Continuing on some easy Golf Course Accessory tips.  Again, none of this stuff is new.  It’s just a reminder that in your quest to provide those perfect turf conditions the simple stuff can sometimes just get overlooked.  Most of my golfing friends can’t tell the difference between poa from bent, but they sure know when [...]

Golf 2010

Rounds are down, revenues are down, and the number of golfers is down. Can it all be blamed on the economic downturn? Surely some if not a lot attributed to job insecurity if not just plain lack of disposable income. However, when the dust settles and we head into a growth period, will the game be back [...]

An Interesting Request

I received an unusual request the other day.  A customer in Africa asked if we made a stronger flag stick.  Following some inquiry, it turns out that the general flag sticks available don’t seem to hold up to elephants scratching themselves on the stick.  How does one answer that? A while back I requested photos [...]

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