Today marks the anniversary of the worst thing to happen to golf courses in America. As a result of this law, the armchair arborists went about ruining courses in the name of beauty, without regard to agronomics or strategy. We are still undoing their haphazard plantings today.

A wonderfully nuanced article by USGA Green Section To summarize, everyone needs to cut more trees down, but the reasons vary by facility.

All of this!

Just wait until Brian Schneider gets to work on restoring it!

Another year Mr. Emmet is gone. This past year, we visited his grave site (St. James Episcopal Church.) It also happens to be the gravesite of his Brother-in-Law: Stanford White.

An absolutely brilliant take by Mike Clayton as always. To me the best quote of the piece is from Donald Ross. I do hate trees on courses but for the reasons outlined here and in the linked article. (As well as the agronomic reasons as highlighted by USGA Green Section often.)

Here we have it folks. Men's Fashion expert (derek guy) here when showing how to wear shorts on the course, does not offer shorts as an option. Yes, he typed "golfing" but let's let that go as he clearly suggests pants for all here. I am taking this as a victory.

This is a brilliant reminder: get rid of the first cut!

This to a million!

As always Bradley S. Klein 🇺🇦 is spot on.

Anyone worried about F&B over the golf experience should review these results. No one would turn away great service but no one pays initiation and dues annually for it. They do it for the golf!

As a shower enthusiast, I would love to celebrate progress on more water pressure but this is merely keeping the 1992 restrictions that the Seinfeld episode correctly complained about: 2.5GPM. Que Sammy Hagar: I can't shower with that little power!

What golfers expect GCSAA professionals to have done when they are playing in the afternoon on "slow greens" but it rained in the morning.

This is your 2Q2025 edition of your quarterly reminder that the Country Club of Scranton is awesome and, despite being a strong contender for the 3rd best course in the golf-rich Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, somehow still dramatically underrated. If you ever have the

This is why I obsess over history, Golf Digest literally ran this experiment for at least two years (2009 & 2010,) but because it happened before Mr. Thomas was paying attention, it's as if it never happened. History is important because there are no new ideas.

When I emphatically state that there ought not be parity with everyone's opinion this is why. The history of the trees at Oakmont has been discussed quite a lot this week and yet... Education on a topic, formal or otherwise, ought to matter.

Love this, but how did you all miss Timber Point GC

The centreline bunkers on the 4th, secretly dug overnight by Stuart Paton and supported by John Low, are inspired by the Principal’s Nose at St Andrews. This bold move created strategy on the hole and unknowingly ushered in a new era of strategic course design.