Posts By Jay Flemma
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1.7KArticlesC.B. Macdonald’s Lido Golf Club to be Reborn
With a collective cheer that might have been heard in space, the golf world celebrated the promised return – indeed rebirth –...
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1.9KArticlesHead Golf Superintendent, Baker Hill Bob Says Goodbye after 23 Years at New Hampshire Marvel
East Coast Americans who golf and ski could do no better than New Hampshire. In the winter the White Mountains are C.S....
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3.0KArticlesMeet the Par-3 Templates of Macdonald, Raynor, and Banks
The hottest trend in golf design right now is to recreate the strategies and designs of the greatest and most important Bloodline...
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967ArticlesNo Skiing, No Problem for I-90 Public Golfers This Spring
I call it the “I-90 Effect:” when a blizzard materializes out of nowhere, creating white-out conditions anywhere between Cleveland and Boston. Today...
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1.2KArticlesGolf Course Trades Interview with New GCSAA President Mark Jordan
Golf undoubtedly helped lead America’s spiritual recovery from Coronavirus. With Covid protections baked into the sport naturally, people flocked to the links...
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2.5KArticlesDoctor Turfgrass aka Dr. Richard Hurley, Does it Again
“Hello? Dr. Turfgrass? This is Agent J. I need your latest intel on 007, TiffEagle, and SR7100…on the double!” What you just...
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983ArticlesJay Flemma’s look at Eastern Skiing Resort in NH
Readers who follow Jay Flemma‘s articles in Golf Course Trades each month will enjoy his musings on a popular ski resort in...
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2.0KArticles3rd Generation Superintendent, Stewards Tillinghast Masterpiece into 21st Century
Here’s a sure bar bet winner for you: Quick! Name the oldest country club in America. Surprise: it’s Philadelphia Cricket Club, founded...
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4.5KArticlesSmooth Sailing at Hiawatha Landing
I wish that I’d have studied golf course architecture 25 years ago, because – if it’s at all possible – I would...
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2.7KArticlesThe Lasting Legacy of Vesper Velvet Bentgrass
Over the centuries golf has seen many colorful mad scientists among its immortals. Bryson DeChambeau is the latest to wear the moniker...