Shinnecock’s iconic golden rough isn’t wild — it’s 125 acres of deliberate starvation, managed with herbicides, growth regulators, and a precise program that costs more than rough you simply let go.
Mercury from Calo-clor fungicide applied before 1995 persists in golf course greens at up to 288 times residential safety standards — permanent, undisclosed, and legally untouchable until a course redevelops.
The 7th green at Shinnecock Hills didn’t play fast at the 2004 U.S. Open — it was dying, and the decision that killed it was made two weeks before Sunday.
In November 1990, the Aronimink board voted to walk away from a PGA Championship it had already been awarded. The
The morning dew on a bentgrass putting green carries a fungal pathogen called Clarireedia jacksonii — the deadliest disease in
April 10th, 2025, the 89th Masters Tournament began at Augusta National Golf Club. The 11th green was perfect. The 12th green was perfect. Rae’s Creek ran clean and quiet under the Hogan Bridge. 6 months and 13 days earlier, that same stretch of gras
Your golf course superintendent slices into every putting green you’ve ever put it on. Not once on a sketch, sometimes weekly, always with blades that drop below the surface and cut straight down into the canopy in a way no mower ever does. What you
The golf course superintendent at Aronomy Golf Club, host of this week’s PGA Championship runs 174 bunkers. Seen from the air, they spread across the property in white clusters at every green, every dog leg angle, every slope where Ross originally pu
Last fall at Aronimink Golf Club in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, a construction crew dug a new tee box. [music] They built it on the opposite side of an active maintenance road. The 18th hole now plays 490 yards uphill to a [music] terrace green. Th
The soil under the 11th green at the 2026 PGA Championship at Aronimink Golf Club could not legally be installed as fresh fill in a brand new green today. Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection would reject it. The course gets to keep