From the CEO
Processing Payment Processing
With all due respect to Ferris Bueller, “The credit card processing world is changing pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”
Cover Stories and Features
Looking Beyond the Science
FarmLinks goes from Research Course to Resort Destination
Raising Capital
Owners, lenders get creative with finance
Turf Wars: Can Golf (Someday) Win Its Battles Against Disease and Other Disasters?
When disease brings misery to humans, well-funded researchers roll up their sleeves to find a solution. We’ve seen this process end triumphantly in the case of smallpox — eradicated four decades ago. Behind it is an impressive list of other dread diseases scientists expect to dispense with — malaria, mumps, measles and rubella among them.
Leap of Faith
A Family Brings A Nebraska Course Back From The Dead
Case Studies
Forging an Ideal Collaboration with the Superintendent
At one point in his distinguished career, Larry Snyder spoke to his general manager about a green on their course that was stressed and thinning out
STOP: Use Our Cease & Desist Templates
You may be reading that header wondering what exactly I am referencing. But if you listened to the June 7 Golf Business Podcast you may have an idea of what I mean when I say “cease & desist templates.”
Service Animals, Need or Desire?
Golf course operators, like so many in the service industry, are facing another challenge: Customers wanting to bring loving pets with them wherever they go. In years past, it was commonly known that animals were not permitted inside businesses or on golf courses. The only exceptions were seeing-eye dogs.
Critters Gone Wild
Wildlife both bane and beauty for golf courses
CBD Getting Big Name Support
Innovation comes in different forms, shapes and sizes.
Automation and Smart Devices Change the Landscape
New technology aimed at turfgrass perfection keeps getting invented, some of it game-changing, some likely not. Relatively new on the scene is a device with a science-fiction sound to it — the “time-domain reflectometer.”
Up Close and Personal
Final Thoughts with Elaine Gebhardt
What makes owning a golf course in New England unique?
Stewarding Chemistries for Long-Term Success
Despite the number of products available to control pests in golf course turf, it’s rare to see new products that use a new mode of action (MOA), which is the mechanism that inhibits pest growth. In the turf market, there are approximately 40 fungicide active ingredients (AI) and 70 unique AI combinations, but there are only 16 unique MOAs.
Two Questions, Two Operators
In an otherwise untamed area, how do you manage golf and wildlife when one is bound to encroach upon the other?