Tim on Tee to Green Radio Show
Tim recently appeared as a guest on Colorado’s Tee to Green radio show.
The 2015 Grainy Awards
The Fourth Annual It’s that time of year again, when I gleefully recount the season just ended by bestowing the Grainy Awards. They are the Oscars of the outdoors, the Grammies of the greens, and my heartfelt attempt to recognize the up and downs of golf. Humanitarian Award: Dr. Patricia J. Vittum The well-deserved recipient […]
Going at Things Ass Backwards
The follow post appeared on GolfCourseIndustry.com in March 2014. Aspire Golf is including it here on our blog to share along with it some of the feedback we received. Have you been in the golf business long enough to remember the Basakwerd putter? Introduced in the 1980s, it was constructed with the shaft entering at […]
Fast Talk On Slow Play
Does it really require an eight-hour “summit” to determine how the golf industry can get golfers to improve pace of play? Or representatives from every major golf organization on the continent? (Eight hours? I could have played about 50 holes in that much time.) I did learn one thing after reviewing the proceedings of the […]
Making Merion Tough
Read Tim’s observations leading into the U.S. Open Championship at Merion.
In the Rearview Mirror
Looking back on 2011 and before heading into 2012 let’s review some the issues which left many people within our industry perplexed, puzzled and preparing for the worst. BACTERIAL WILT For the last two seasons this malady affected many golf courses and their bent grass or Poa greens or at least many superintendents thought this […]
It’s Not the Open I Remember
Sitting here watching Rory McIlroy go to 16 under after four holes in the final round of the U.S. Open, listening to the announcers tell me that he won’t have more than a wedge into any of Congressional Country Club’s par fours on the front nine, makes absolutely no sense. A wedge? You can blame […]
Can Golf Be Fun?
Right about at this time of year, with the U.S. Open starting in a few days, the golf world is bracing for its annual bitch-fest, the carping and complaining from the pros about how difficult the course is, how poorly it’s set up, and how the brutal conditions will show them at their worst. Yet […]
I’M BACK…..
We’re already two weeks into 2011 and my huge fan base (at least 2) has been clamoring for new posts and wondering why I haven’t offered my predictions for the new year. But first a little reminiscing. What did we accomplish in 2010? Not much… We did not see the industry turn around. It’s still […]
2011 – Thank Goodness It’s Almost Here!
Summer couldn’t end soon enough for superintendents across the country, especially in the north and southeast where extreme heat and humidity did some serious damage to even the best-maintained courses. 2010 witnessed the worst weather in more than 25 years, and I’m sure there’s a lot more gray hair—if there’s any hair left at all—on […]
