Understanding why USGA greens start to stress between the 2nd and 3rd year of their existence and what we can do about it is probably the most important thing that we as a group [GMs, GCS, Club Pros, Board of Directors, Greens Committees and Golfers] need to understand.
Read more: Boardroom Yarn #57 - Understanding Why Greens Go Bad
Recently, while being interviewed for a documentary on golf green failures, it occurred to me that some of the questions, in fact many of the questions that the interviewer was asking needed to be put into an article. The following are a few of the questions and answers that I feel everyone in a management position on a golf course would like to ask if they knew how, and my answers to the questions.
By Dave Doherty
Earlier this week, I had the good fortune to be part of a team that was working on finding drain tiles under stressed greens in the central part of the United States.
In the Sept/Oct 2013 issue of the Boardroom, I wrote an article titled “IT NEVER ENDS’. I want to take the liberty of continuing a part of that article with an update of events at that course over the last 2.5 years.
By Dave Doherty
Recently a golf course superintendent called to tell me he had been dismissed from all duties that morning.