Tag: Education

Billy Casper Golf Launches Agronomy Internship Program

January 17, 2012 By
Billy Casper Golf (BCG), which owns and operates more than 130 golf courses, country clubs and resorts, has launched an agronomy internship program designed to identify and educate future leaders in turfgrass management. The internship program was developed with the ...

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Musser Turf Foundation Launches Website

October 12, 2011 By
To publicize its mission and attract attention to its graduate student award program, the Musser International Turfgrass Foundation has launched a website. Sharon Golf Club course superintendent and general manager Frank Dobie, president of the Musser Foundation Board, said the ...

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Free PACE Turf videos explore spring aeration and disease

April 28, 2011 By
PACE Turf recently released a trilogy of free videos addressing issues that concern superintendents every spring—compaction and fairy ring. In the first of the three videos, which can be seen for free on YouTube, La Jolla Country Club superintendent Dennis ...

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CMAA Releases Sustainability Manual


April 12, 2011 By
Help is here for golf clubs striving to be more environmentally conscious. Last month, the Club Managers Association of America, in conjunction with experts from the Scotland-based Golf Environment Organization, released a sustainability manual to guide clubs interested in taking ...

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Penn State University gets endowment for turfgrass programs

April 12, 2011 By
Pennsylvania Turfgrass Research Inc. recently donated $300,000 to the university’s College of Agricultural Sciences to create an endowment benefiting the university’s turfgrass research and educational programs. Dubbed “the Pennsylvania Turf Research Innovation Fund”, the endowment will primarily support new graduate ...

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Short Game Target System

March 28, 2011 By
Standard Golf Company has a new economical practice system called the Short Game Target System, available April 1, 2011 through Standard Golf distributors. The system consists of adjustable hoop-style targets that come with heavy-duty polyethylene distance markers in 10-yard increments ...

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