Author: Craig Kessler
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A Class Unto Itself: California’s Coachella Valley
Sui generis — Latin for “a class unto itself.” Desert — there are lots of them in California, but only one when the subject is golf. ... -
New Chapter: Iconic Brookside GC Turns the Page in a Long Story
Millions around the world recognize it as the place where thousands of cars are parked for the Rose Bowl game every New Year’s Day. Golfers recognize ... -
Election 18- The Numbers Behind California’s Numbers
When all is said and done, and with recounts and slow counts all is not yet said and done, it looks like the Democrats will have ... -
Ignorance Is Not Bliss
As the golf world gets ready to digest the most significant changes to the Rules of Golf in 34 years, we are sure to hear the ... -
Golf Celebrates the Fruits of Research at UC Riverside Turfgrass Field Day
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but research is its facilitator. And that’s what the Turf Program at UC Riverside celebrates at the school’s annual ... -
Golf in the Land of Permanent Drought
As much as we would like to think that it’s the bone-dry years that are the exception, the facts say otherwise. It’s the wet winter that ... -
The Era of Recycled Water May Be Drawing to a Close
One-third of California’s golf courses have access to recycled water. Another significant number have access to raw untreated water from the Colorado River — roughly six ... -
A Miserable Year for Politics, a Great Year for Golf
1968 was arguably the most tumultuous political year of the 20th Century. A President who had been elected in one of the greatest landslides in American ... -
Lessons from the Drought “Emergency”: A funny thing happened on the way to the apocalypse.
This is not a story about the recent drought. If there is one thing we have learned it is that for the Southern California golf industry ... -
Drought? Megadrought?: Where do we stand and what does it mean for Southern California’s golf courses?
Okay, so the snowpack this year was above average, and the rainfall in Northern California was above average. The rainfall in Southern California was below average, ...
