SALISBURY — The love of agronomy began at an early age for Ron Bivins as he started mowing lawns at approximately 8 to 10, and in time made this his life-long career. Bivins has served as the ...
Welcome to “Super Secrets Solves,” in which a golf-course superintendent doles out advice for real-life lawn-care dilemmas. Have a problem of your own? Drop a line to josh.sens@golf.com, and we might ...
Remember Angus MacGyver, the titular star of a TV show about a secret agent so resourceful, he once fashioned a hang glider out of a fallen satellite? Dude would have made a good superintendent. For ...
Rarely do we play a round of golf where we don’t have at least one or two nitpicks about the condition of the course. Sometimes they are not substantive enough to voice to the superintendent, but ...
What aspect of a golf course’s condition do you remember most? For many golfers, it’s the speed of the greens. This traditional narrative holds that nice courses have fast greens and bad courses have ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about interesting people in the world of sports. The weeklong Golf Course Superintendents Association of America (GCSAA) ...
It didn't become clear to him until Zach Winn worked for two different golf course providers -- private courses and public courses have different priorities. And he much prefers working for a public ...
A series of renovations have made for better conditions at a public golf course in North Carolina.
While Green Hill Municipal Golf Course head pro Matt Moison spent part of the winter refinishing the hardwood floor in the clubhouse, superintendent Tim O’Brien volunteered for nearly a week to help a ...