Have you ever thought about what goes into setting up and maintaining a golf course before your round? After all, most of the work to prepare the playing surfaces you enjoy gets done early in the ...

Welcome to Stuff Golfers Should Know, a GOLF.com series in which we reveal all kinds of useful golf (and life!) wisdom that is sure to make you the smartest, savviest and most prepared player in your ...

If you think it’s gotten hard to maintain your golf game, consider what it’s like to maintain a golf course. Strapped by reduced budgets and skeleton staffing, many superintendents have been facing ...

Old Tom Morris is considered the father of modern greenkeeping and original greenkeeper of the Old Course at St. Andrews. He observed, “The golf course needs a day of rest even if the golfers don’t.” ...

Keeping your favorite course as pretty and playable as possible takes a lot of hard work. Kudos to superintendents and their crews. However, you still might encounter times when a construction zone ...

Leighton Schwob, the U.S. Golf Association’s U.S. Open Championship director of operations, wishes he had a little more darkness to work with. “Too much land, not enough night,” he said of the daily — ...