The 2021 Players Championship: Golf course facts

The March date means the overseeded turf will furnish the playing surfaces on TPC Sawgrass’s Stadium Course. Get all the course maintenance details.

Fairway on ice: NHL comes to Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course

The puck stops ... here? A Nevada superintendent (and hockey fan) has helped transform a snow-covered fairway into a rink for a made-for-TV NHL event.

Managing a reversible golf course

Visit some of the reversible layouts in the U.S., from rural Oregon to downtown Atlanta, and hear from superintendents who oversee courses played different ways on different days.

Hole, yeah: The 2021 Waste Management Phoenix Open

While the Stadium Course — and its famously festive 16th hole — won’t be as lively, the TPC Scottsdale crew still has the grounds in crowd-pleasing form.

Iced in at En-Joie Golf Club

Superintendent Anthony Chapman is carefully chipping away at acres of encased turf — some with silt from flooding beneath the ice.

Bald Eagle Golf Club’s pandemic purgatory

On a detached tract of U.S. soil, a golf course sits suspended in pandemic-spurred disuse, a logger-turned-superintendent its lone caretaker.

Improved irrigation spurs course’s resurgence

With its recent irrigation system overhaul, once-struggling Anthem Country Club near Las Vegas is singing a new tune. Stakeholders discuss overcoming obstacles both geographic and financial.

Doubling down: The U.S. Women’s Open at Champions Golf Club

To pull off the December major, the maintenance team at the Houston facility has taken on double the workload to accommodate different daylight and weather conditions.

Practice facility upgrades: A tale of two clubs

Practicing is popular, and an appealing practice facility can boost both business and golf participation. Two superintendents share how their clubs approached recent revamps.

Regal revival: The 2020 U.S. Open at Winged Foot

The test that awaits golfers at the U.S. Open is the product of six years of work by Stephen Rabideau, CGCS, and his team to return Winged Foot to its original, Golden Age rendering.

Iowa derecho: Superintendents recount storm, damages

The derecho that tore through the Midwest last week unleashed its worst on its way across Iowa. Four superintendents describe their encounters with the unusual wind storm.

Damage done at Winged Foot Golf Club

Just a month shy of the 2020 U.S. Open, the host venue was hit with tree loss and a prolonged power outage courtesy of Tropical Storm Isaias.

PGA Championship: A short-handed crew turns out TPC Harding Park

The number of hands on deck at TPC Harding Park is significantly lower than for your typical major tournament. And yet, they’ve delivered exceptionally.

Are you dense? Yes, rough at TPC Harding Park, you are

A blanket of juicy, challenging rough has the best golfers in the world on guard at this week’s PGA Championship.

Game on at the 2020 PGA Championship

Aside from a missing phone, the golf course maintenance team at TPC Harding Park is in top form and ready to usher in major play in this unusual year.

Bay beauty: The PGA Championship at TPC Harding Park

Used as a spectator parking lot for the 1998 U.S. Open, TPC Harding Park has come a long way to host the first PGA Championship in San Francisco and a major unlike any before.

Ballpark turned golf course

While coronavirus has left many stadiums sitting silent, a minor league venue in Mississippi has been reimagined as a golf destination. A former superintendent is at the transformation’s helm.

A very 2020 golf course renovation project

Few things were “normal” about a recent hole renovation at a Pennsylvania club, from the timing of the work to the financing behind it to a curveball known as coronavirus.

Double visions: Venues prep for back-to-back tournaments

In July, two golf facilities 1,300 miles apart will each take on the tall task of hosting two professional tournaments in two weeks. GCM chats with the superintendents about pulling off the doubleheaders.

Pro golf and greenkeeping in the time of coronavirus

With the PGA Tour’s Charles Schwab Challenge, Colonial Country Club in Texas and those who maintain it are at the forefront of a trial run of the return of pro golf. Plus, GCM checks in with supers whose courses’ events have been canceled.