Watching Golf Channel, reading quote sheets

Adam Barr's feature on the Golf Channel tonight about Fred Klauk was real nice. He set it up by comparing golf course superintendents to referees in that people only notice them when they screw up, but that it's time to highlight the successful career of TPC Sawgrass superintendent Fred Klauk. Tune in Thursday morning around 10:20 a.m. (Central) to catch it again. Klauk will be on live, joining the set at The Players at 10:30.

His successor, Tom Vlach, CGCS, mentioned the player quotes we’ve posted here about the course conditions at the Players Stadium Course at the staff meeting this afternoon, so like GCM NewsWeekly Editor Ken Moum once told me, you get extra motivated to search for things like that when you know that people will use (or read) them. So here’s another good one from this afternoon’s news conferences …

“I’d agree with that (some of the golfers are saying that this course is in the best condition they’ve seen here and maybe all year on tour). The greens are spectacular. They’re rolling beautifully. It’s almost like those fake greens that are just like a carpet. It’s in brilliant condition. It stacks up with anything we’ve played this year.” – Adam Scott

Dave Pelz, who was just on the Golf Channel, said something similar about how the greens are so firm, fast and smooth, that it’s “almost like a synthetic material.” He said they are the best bermuda greens he’s ever seen and then he gave credit exactly where it’s due … Fred Klauk.