In this episode of the TurfNet Renovation Report, host Anthony Pioppi chats with Peter Brooks, CGCS, longtime superintendent at The Everglades Club in Palm Beach, Florida. Brooks has been superintendent there since 1987, and will embark on another fairway regrassing in 2023.

Brooks chats about the strategies and challenges of managing Bermudagrass fairways and eventual regrassing once the  levels of OM accumulate past the point where periodic aerification is sufficient to keep them in check. He discusses new strategies with BASF's Lexicon fungicide and mechanical "sod to sprig" planting techniques.

Presented by Golf Preservations, The Andersons, and Capillary Bunkers.

Bradley S. Klein, Ph.D., talks with golf course architect Kevin Norby about the perceived glamour vs. the reality of designing golf courses throughout the country and around the world. They also discuss some of Kevin's past work and ongoing projects and the role of the architect in making golf courses easier for the superintendent to maintain, especially in times of increased labor and budget challenges.

Presented by Golf Preservations, The Andersons and Capillary Bunkers.

In this episode of Renovation Report, sponsored by The Andersons, Capillary Bunkers and Golf Preservations, Bradley S. Klein, Ph.D., sits down with golf course architect and restoration specialist Andrew Green about his reputation for taking historic golf courses back in time after years of change. Green, who says his goal is as simple as doing good work with good people, talks specifically about projects such as Scioto Country Club and Inverness Club, site of this year's Solheim Cup matches.

Presented by Golf Preservations, The Andersons and Capillary Bunkers.

Inness, a King-Collins design-build project condensing the old Rondout Golf Club from 18 to 9 new holes, opened in June with Anthony Minniti at the helm. It wasn't easy.

Minniti came over from The Creek and Shinnecock Hills to grow in and polish the new resort course Accord, NY, in the upper Hudson Valley between the Catskill and Shawangunk Mountains. Weather, short staffing and lots of clay and rock stood in his way.

Anthony Pioppi chats with Minniti about the challenges and the accomplishments at Inness.

In this episode of the Renovation Report, sponsored by The Andersons, Capillary Bunkers and Golf Preservations, Bradley S. Klein, Ph.D., talks with golf course architect Drew Rogers about his time working with his mentor, Arthur Hills, running his own golf course design firm, JDR Design Group, and the transformation of the business from original design to primarily one of restoration and renovation in the face of golf industry contraction.

Presented by Golf Preservations, The Andersons and Capillary Bunkers.

In this episode of the TurfNet Renovation Report, Bradley S. Klein, Ph.D., chats with J.J. Keegan, golf industry analyst who is recognized as one of the leading consultants in the golf industry.

Presented by Golf Preservations, The Andersons and Capillary Bunkers.

In this episode of the TurfNet Renovation Report, Brad Klein chats with 41-year veteran superintendent Peter Bly of Brooklawn Country Club (Fairfield, CT), host site of the 2021 US Senior Women's Open.

Presented by Golf Preservations, The Andersons and Capillary Bunkers.

In this episode of the TurfNet Renovation Report, presented by Golf Preservations and The Andersons, host Anthony Pioppi chats with Mike Manthey, superintendent at Midland Hills Country Club in Roseville, MN about the recent renovation of the Seth Raynor design. Led by architect Jim Urbina, construction was started and completed in 2020 under Covid-19 safety protocols.

For more history of the project, check out https://golf.com/travel/seth-raynor-map-found-midland-hills/

In this episode of the TurfNet Renovation Report, host John Reitman chats with Chris Cochran, Senior Design Associate of Nicklaus Design, about the American Dunes Golf Club project in Grand Haven, MI.

In this episode of the TurfNet Renovation Report, host Jon Kiger chats with Scott LesChander, superintendent at Terrace Park Country Club near Cincinnati, about the ongoing renovation work and irrigation system upgrade.

Presented by Golf Preservations and The Andersons.

In this episode of the TurfNet Renovation Report, host Anthony Pioppi chats with Dean Sparks, golf course superintendent at Davenport (IA) Country Club about the ongoing improvements being performed in-house under the annual guidance of architects Ron Forse and Jim Nagle.

Presented by Golf Preservations and The Andersons.

In this episode of the TurfNet Renovation Report, host Anthony Pioppi chats with Scott Bordner, who recently moved from Chicago Golf Club to a rebuild project of the old Sand Barrens Golf Club in Swainton, New Jersey, near Atlantic City. Renamed Union League National Golf Club, the original Hurdzan/Fry design is being redone by Fry/Straka Global Golf Course Design.

Presented by Golf Preservations and The Andersons.

In this episode of the TurfNet Renovation Report, Anthony Pioppi chats with Rob Collins of King Collins Golf Course Design, one of the new generation of "movers and shapers" bringing fresh thought to golf course design and construction.

King Collins is the firm behind Sweetens Cove, Signal Mountain and The Buck Club, and is currently reworking the old Rondout Country Club in Accord, NY, a renovated 12-hole public track in Jackson, MI, and the new Landmand project in Nebraska.

Presented by Golf Course Preservations and The Andersons.

In this episode of the TurfNet Renovation Report, host Anthony Pioppi chats with Jeff Johnson, golf course superintendent at The Minikahda Club in Minneapolis, about their 2018 strip-and-seed regrassing project that opened earlier this year.

Presented by Golf Preservations and The Andersons.

In this episode of the TurfNet Renovation Report, host Anthony Pioppi chats with Jim Barrett of James Barrett Associates, noted golf course irrigation designer and consultant.

It could be argued that nobody in the golf business knows more about irrigation than Jim Barrett, who started designing irrigation systems back in 1972 for Robert Trent Jones before starting his own shop in 1984. There are also few in the industry more respected.

Irrigation designers fly well under the radar that puts golf course architects in the spotlight, but the job they do is no less critical to a well-functioning golf course operation.

Listen in as Jim tells us his story and discusses the state of golf course irrigation today and into the future.

Presented by Golf Preservations and The Andersons.

In this episode of the TurfNet Renovation Report, Anthony Pioppi chats with Tad King of King Collins Golf Course Design. King explains how he morphed from shaper and builder (most notably Sweetens Cove) into a golf course designer, and relates some of the challenges and rewards of working on projects around the world.

Presented by The Andersons and Golf Preservations.

In this episode of the TurfNet Renovation Report, Anthony Pioppi chats with Drew White, new superintendent at The Riverton Country Club in Cinnaminson, NJ, about the Donald Ross restoration project White started one week after he was hired this spring.

Follow along on the Riverton CC Agronomy Twitter feed as the project progresses 

Presented by Golf Preservations and The Andersons.

In this episode of the TurfNet Renovation Report, host Anthony Pioppi chats with Eric Johnson, director of agronomy at Chambers Bay Golf Course (University Place, Washington), about the recent regrassing of greens from fescue to Poa annua sod.

Presented by Golf Preservations -- the greens drainage specialists -- and The Andersons Plant Nutrient Group.