A magazine of solutions and opinions for golf course superintendents, owners and managers of daily fee, public, semi-private, private, resort, state, and city courses.

Golfdom's timely advice and independent voice is valued as the clear market in editorial quality. Superintendents and golf course owners and managers all over the country rely on Golfdom's award-winning, reader-driven coverage of all aspects of golf course maintenance. (Tradepub.com)

Golfdom is the industry's clear market leader in editorial quality and a definite powerhouse in industry reach, total market penetration and partnership building. Superintendents and golf course owners and managers all over the country rely on Golfdom's award-winning, reader-driven coverage of all aspects of golf course maintenance.

These key influencers are the lead purchasers of all products used for the maintenance, construction, operation and design of courses. They work both in the public and private sector in the $8.5 billion course maintenance marketplace. It's the perfect environment for marketers to share their message and showcase their products and services. (questex.com)

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Cover Story
Bearing the Brunt of Commodity Prices
By David Frabotta
Golf course budgets are bleeding. Prices for everything from irrigation systems, turfgrass and fertilizer to pancake flour and golf car batteries are on the rise, hampering operations and wreaking havoc on renovation projects.

Golf course products are following the rapid rise in precious metals, oil, grain and other commodities traded in the futures markets, which some say are inflated because of investor speculation, supply and heightened demand from abroad. First, ebbing global financial markets combined with America's housing halt has hampered investor returns. So financiers are gambling on raw materials, which have dwarfed traditional dividends during the past few years. Second, emerging economies are competing for building materials, oil and other goods. ...

Features
He Stands A-gas-t
By Ron Furlong
How do we increase the line items for these now suddenly more-expensive things while keeping the budget at an acceptable level?

A Down-Home Approach
By Larry Aylward
It's lunchtime for employees of the Washakie Golf & RV Resort. The sweet smell of sloppy joe lingers in the air.

The Most Important Redefinition We've Ever Seen?
By Geoff Shackelford
At the Golf Industry Show in February, the American Society of Golf Course Architects had just emerged from a closed-door meeting. Two scions of the profession, Alice and Pete Dye, approached Golf Digest Architecture Editor Ron Whitten in the Orange County Convention Center hallway. When Pete and Alice come calling, you listen.

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