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Randy and the gang at Rockbottum Country Club pontificate on Rockbottum wisdom and skeletal golf, among other madness.

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Marshal's Little Helper

Our GCM (Golf Course Marshal) is often accused of being lazy, ineffective and unwilling to do the job.   When the GCM attempts to speed play and enforce local rules, golfers howl in protest, calling the GCM a jack-booted power-crazed thug gleefully dealing out harassment and oppression.   If the GCM is polite, the players ignore GCM commands and refuse to comply; it is not unusual for golfers to see a polite GCM as a sign of weakness and follow up with threats and physical abuse. . . . go
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Crew Management Veminar From The Skeletal GreenKeeper

Football coaches know their chances of making it to “Legendary Coach” status are greater if their team is talented, highly motivated, fast and smart. The Golf Course Superintendent is in a similar situation.  It can be very difficult to reach the top ranks of Golf Course Superintendents while saddled with a poor team. That’s my excuse. Everyone in this industry knows what a positive influence a talented equipment tech can have on a golf course.   The highly motivated assistant superintendent
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Crew Management Veminar From The Skeletal GreenKeeper

Football coaches know their chances of making it to Legendary Coach status are greater if their team is talented, highly motivated, fast and smart.   The Golf Course Superintendent is in a similar situation.  It can be very difficult to reach the top ranks of Golf Course Superintendents while saddled with a poor team.   That's my excuse.   Everyone in this industry knows what a positive influence a talented equipment tech can have on a golf course.   The highly motivated assistant superint
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How Did We Build Golf Courses in 1932?

Recently, Peter McCormick, TurfNet Commander, posted a wildly interesting video in the TurfNet Forum, a classic film on “The Early Days of Greenkeeping“. While watching the old film, I remembered I had some old film footage stashed away in the Rockbottum CC vault, acquired during my Classic Golf Architecture fanatic period.  The footage showed our local muni here in Griffin, Georgia, during the earliest construction phase, in 1932. I located the film and edited it down for internet attention s
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How Did We Build Golf Courses in 1932?

Recently, Peter McCormick, TurfNet Commander, posted a wildly interesting video in the TurfNet Forum, a classic film on The Early Days of Greenkeeping.   While watching the old film, I remembered I had some old film footage stashed away in the Rockbottum CC vault, acquired during my Classic Golf Architecture fanatic period.  The footage showed our local muni here in Griffin, Georgia, during the earliest construction phase, in 1932.   I located the film and edited it down for internet attenti
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Skeletal Golf Operation Techniques

At Rockbottum CC, our green fee for a weekday walker is $10.  We don’t get very many walking players, but if someone wanted to play several times a week, it would be affordable. The fees go up for riders, but the amount is still minimal when compared to other courses in our area, especially the clubs that went millions in debt to attract new members with upgraded clubhouse facilities. Rockbottum CC doesn’t have the slick shine of our expensive neighbors, but we have one thing they don’t:  Play
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Skeletal Golf Operation Techniques

At Rockbottum CC, our green fee for a weekday walker is $10.  We dont get very many walking players, but if someone wanted to play several times a week, it would be affordable.   The fees go up for riders, but the amount is still minimal when compared to other courses in our area, especially the clubs that went millions in debt to attract new members with upgraded clubhouse facilities.   Rockbottum CC doesnt have the slick shine of our expensive neighbors, but we have one thing they dont:  P
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A Gopher For Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is our favorite holiday at Rockbottum CC, mostly because almost every Thanksgiving morning since 1973, we have engaged in a hard-fought, knock ’em down and drag ’em out golf match. It’s a two-man team, match play event and the rules are simple:  To play, you have to be a Wilson, either in the golf business or a veteran of the golf world, and your partner has to be your brother.  For the first few years, it was known as The Wilson Brothers Championship of the Universe, but it got bi
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A Gopher For Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is our favorite holiday at Rockbottum CC, mostly because almost every Thanksgiving morning since 1973, we have engaged in a hard-fought, knock em down and drag em out golf match.   It's a two-man team, match play event and the rules are simple:  To play, you have to be a Wilson, either in the golf business or a veteran of the golf world, and your partner has to be your brother.  For the first few years, it was known as The Wilson Brothers Championship of the Universe, but it go
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Varmint Vandalism Deterrent

The Rockbottum CC Research Team has released the results of tests carried out on a Varmint Vandalism Deterrent first suggested on The TurfNet Forum. As pressure mounts for golf courses to use 100% humane, organic, minimal carbon footprint methods for pest management, Rockbottum CC leads the way by carefully examining every possible solution.
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Varmint Vandalism Deterrent

The Rockbottum CC Research Team has released the results of tests carried out on a Varmint Vandalism Deterrent first suggested on The TurfNet Forum.   As pressure mounts for golf courses to use 100% humane, organic, minimal carbon footprint methods for pest management, Rockbottum CC leads the way by carefully examining every possible solution.  
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The 330 Can

The current uproar over long putters and anchors is a diversion.  Just like the ruling on grooves a while back, the broom putter controversy is designed to take your eyeballs away from the real problems currently crippling golf. The real problems are that toaster oven on a stick that allows golfers to bust it long and straight without the practice that skill once required and  . . . the superball . . . and the cost of playing the game. But the worst enemy of golf right now is the time needed t
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The 330 Can

The current uproar over long putters and anchors is a diversion.  Just like the ruling on grooves a while back, the broom putter controversy is designed to take your eyeballs away from the real problems currently crippling golf. The real problems are that toaster oven on a stick that allows golfers to bust it long and straight without the practice that skill once required and  . . . the superball . . . and the cost of playing the game. But the worst enemy of golf right now is the time needed t
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The TurfNet Zone (Classic)

There are golf courses where unruly golfers play so slow as to make others give up the game.  There are golf courses where golfers flick cigarettes into bunkers, pull carts off the path at tees and greens–creating hardpan cow paths–while wreaking havoc upon course fixtures and harshly oppressing course personnel. One day, these golfers may find they have unknowingly crossed over into . . . The TurfNet Zone. Or they could just tee it up at Rockbottum CC and find out the hard way, that Momma do
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The TurfNet Zone (Classic)

There are golf courses where unruly golfers play so slow as to make others give up the game.  There are golf courses where golfers flick cigarettes into bunkers, pull carts off the path at tees and greens -- creating hardpan cow paths -- while wreaking havoc upon course fixtures and harshly oppressing course personnel. One day, these golfers may find they have unknowingly crossed over into . . . The TurfNet Zone. Or they could just tee it up at Rockbottum CC and find out the hard way, that Mom
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Penal Rough Envy

I don’t like rough.  From my crusty old point of view, rough has damaged golf, especially the critical entry level point, the municipal course. I haven’t always disliked rough.  I didn’t know I hated it until the summer of ’76, when the US Open came to the Atlanta Athletic Club.  One of Our Local Numbskulls (OLN) somehow managed to qualify and that meant we all had to traipse up there from our muni and watch him perform. *Historical Side Note:  I never actually got to see OLN earn his spot i
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Penal Rough Envy

I dont like rough.  From my crusty old point of view, rough has damaged golf, especially the critical entry level point, the municipal course.   I havent always disliked rough.  I didnt know I hated it until the summer of 76, when the US Open came to the Atlanta Athletic Club.  One of Our Local Numbskulls (OLN) somehow managed to qualify and that meant we all had to traipse up there from our muni and watch him perform.   *Historical Side Note:  I never actually got to see OLN earn his spot
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A Rockbottum CC Halloween Classic

There is a horror lurking out there, waiting for the right moment to viciously attack golf and drain the very lifeblood out of the game. There are those in our golf family that have let this happen, either because they are only concerned with short-term profits or because they say it is not our place to take a stand.  Yet, it is our responsibility to do something positive, because golf pays the bills, it’s our career, the economic locomotive that keeps the wolf from the door. And while those
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A Rockbottum CC Halloween Classic

There is a horror lurking out there, waiting for the right moment to viciously attack golf and drain the very lifeblood out of the game.   There are those in our golf family that have let this happen, either because they are only concerned with short-term profits or because they say it is not our place to take a stand.  Yet, it is our responsibility to do something positive, because golf pays the bills, its our career, the economic locomotive that keeps the wolf from the door.   And while th
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Is Buddy Okay?

Over the last few weeks, we have been deluged with letters, calls and emails–even my private message box that lies hidden inside The TurfNet Forum has been crackling with activity, and it’s all been about one subject:  Buddy Apparently, Buddy has been displaying symptoms indicative of the medical condition known here in the South as, “He just ain’t right.” People, especially TurfNetters, are wondering if Buddy is operating on all three cylinders. There are several factors at play here, the f
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Randy Wilson

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Is Buddy Okay?

Over the last few weeks, we have been deluged with letters, calls and emails  even my private message box that lies hidden inside The TurfNet Forum has been crackling with activity, and its all been about one subject:  Buddy.   Apparently, Buddy has been displaying symptoms indicative of the medical condition known here in the South as, He just aint right.   People, especially TurfNetters, are wondering if Buddy is operating on all three cylinders. There are several factors at play here, th
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Buddy And His Special Project

Buddy likes to solve problems.  His favorite problems are the repeat offenders on the TurfNet Forum, situations that present a hard-to-find solution. If a problem surfaces on the Forum more than once a year, Buddy aggressively seeks research grant money from Momma and works round-the-clock to find an answer. It’s not just dedication to his craft, Buddy is insanely jealous of all the attention Hector receives and will do almost anything to regain his status as Top Equipment Tech. (I’ve tried
Randy Wilson

Randy Wilson

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Buddy And His Special Project

Buddy likes to solve problems.  His favorite problems are the repeat offenders on the TurfNet Forum, situations that present a hard-to-find solution.   If a problem surfaces on the Forum more than once a year, Buddy aggressively seeks research grant money from Momma and works round-the-clock to find an answer.   Its not just dedication to his craft, Buddy is insanely jealous of all the attention Hector receives and will do almost anything to regain his status as Top Equipment Tech.   (Ive
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