Memorial Day is the unofficial start to summer, but for golfers in cooler climates, it also signals that our courses are finally starting to wake up. Yet on courses I play in the Northeast, the same ...

If you’ve ever had a root canal, you understand your superintendent’s conflicted feelings about aerating greens. “The misnomer is that we love doing it — we hate it just as much as golfers do,” says ...

A video from La Herrería Golf in Spain offers a look at one of the most important maintenance procedures performed on golf greens: aeration. The footage shows specialized equipment removing small ...

For many golf professionals, the bane of their existence is coming, and for others, it's already here. Despite many area courses being in peak condition right now during moderate summer season, the ...

As summer aeration programs for bermudagrass putting greens nears an end, one trend that gained popularity this year is double aeration. Golf course superintendents, golf professionals, general ...

No one likes showing up to the local golf course only to find millions of little holes punched into the fairways and greens. To most golfers, golf course aeration, as it’s known, is a necessary evil ...

A typical golf course has 25 to 50 acres of fairway. Aerating such large acreage requires considerable time and labor, especially when pulling cores and cleaning up the debris. Being such a laborious ...

Since we aerated the greens this week at Bellevue Golf Course, let’s talk about why this has to be done. We do this twice per year, pull out the cores, shovel them off the green, and top-dress the ...

Golfers aren’t the only ones who hate it when superintendents aerate greens. “We hate it, too, believe me,” said Dick Zepp, who served as superintendent at Cyprian Keyes GC in Boylston for 20 years ...