Aug
01
If you want to know your golf course, mow it. Verticut the greens. Rake out the bunkers. Weedwack the margins. Run a blower around the fairways until you’re dizzy, and accidentally shower your 6th green with a morning’s worth of clippings. Go get the backpack blower and fix your...
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Jul
25
A surprise dry spell and heat wave around the northern U.S. meant an early start to water management for many courses. We talked with turf pros in hard-hit areas in the northeast who met the challenge using Zipline. As you may have noticed, much of the U.S. seemed to skip...
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Jul
18
Aquatrols proudly sponsored the 11th hole at the recent Ladies Professional Golf Association event on June 5th through the 11th. Having recently played the Seaview Bay Course as a team, Aquatrols is familiar with this scenic but challenging course. A Breathtaking Setting Seaview Golf Course was a breathtaking venue for...
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Jul
10
Shennecossett GC, a famed Connecticut muni, boasts a tremendous lineage, a treasured role in the community, plus one of the best nicknames in golf. And superintendent Eric Morrison loves every bit of it. When we head out for our Aquatrols On The Road adventures, we visit some fantastic facilities, including...
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Jun
30
“The recuperative properties of that product – not just moisture retention but recuperation – just blew me away.” We love it when our products help turf pros succeed. And we love it when they let us know so we can share their success with the rest of the world. Chad...
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Jun
28
With ongoing hot, humid weather conditions, it's important to be mindful of the symptoms of and triggers for Dollar Spot, as well as actions you can take to help mitigate this increasingly routine turfgrass disease. Until recently, the disease was widely regarded as being a problem on fescue swards, especially...
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Jun
20
‘Nostalgia. It ain’t what it used to be’. So quipped American satirist Peter DeVries. Over the last few months, the nostalgia for me has been real. Every time I walk the few hundred yards from my home to the golf course I’ve loved my entire life, I am transported back...
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Jun
01
Lessons learned from four decades overseeing one of the world's greatest golf courses...and what's next for one of the best minds in the turf business. By Pat Jones In 2016, when I first visited the famed Crystal Downs CC in the lovely lakeside town of Frankfort, Michigan, I was there...
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Apr
13
Did you know that the wet/dry cycle which starts after a prolonged period of rainfall is one of the main contributory factors to localised dry patches caused by hydrophobicity? Depending on where you’re located in Europe, you may be thinking that after the March downpours you have seen enough water...
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Mar
16
James Bledge is at the helm of Royal Liverpool Golf Course's efforts to prepare the course for the 151st Open, and he's using modern tools and practices to prepare and bring his members along for the journey. When the Aquatrols team visited England to meet top course managers and greenkeepers...
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