Working in Asia I've always enjoyed visiting the small, unpolished local shops to undertake cheap and unique projects. In this case, the village coffin maker and 'Fishing boat parts fabricator' are taking a break from usual duties to collaborate and make on course accessories.

Lone greenkeeper at Augusta National. 1960.

A handy sunglasses tint guide for the young Assistant Superintendent's entering their first summer:

Golf_course_utility_vehicles_that_go_hard.jpg Classic SEAsia pragmatism with the Thai touch of Mad Max.

Pydiflumetofen (Posterity) has a soil half-life of 2,416 days (6.6 years)

There is an easier way (than lugging your dusty, 1-wheeled air compressor into the back of a cart and onto the golf course)

Shanghai Golf: Enhance Anting, RTJ2 (2005). Strategic tee shots across what was once very unremarkable land. Par 3's especially well framed. Tree lined, but not crowded. An ownership that cares deeply about their product elevates the experience behind the sum of its parts.

Shanghai Golf: Yangtze Dunes. OCCM redesign, (2018). A walking only, sand based links course, in China. Demonstrates the full spectrum of forms, shapes and sizes that a golf hole can be. Toes the line with constant, often bold mounding and a boomerang green, but never oversteps.

Sat in my plain white shell, feeling intellectually destitute when faced with Micah, encased in books and waving an A-M dictionary towards me. Always a pleasurable discussion.

There's a course in Nepal that Tom Doak joked "is an 11 on the Doak Scale." In a very international podcast, Garrett Morrison & Joseph LaMagna discuss Le Golf National before Jon Wall, superintendent at Shanqin Bay Golf Club, shares stories from traveling the world & golf in Asia.

Assorted Greens averages, totals and stats, 2024

Summer of Surface Removal