A couple links you might enjoy.
First, David Feherty pens a column for Golf.com entitled "Modern greenskeepers are the PGA Tour's real magicians."Go for the superintendent love, stay for the Phil Mickeslon love handle pot-shot.
And then, our old (and to some around Lawrence, former) friend Roy Williams compares his job as a college basketball coach with that of a golf course superintendent in the Charlotte Observer. The quote was nabbed by longtime golf writer Ron Green Jr. Williams said, "I said this morning everybody thinks they're smarter than every basketball coach, and everybody thinks they're smarter than every golf course superintendent. You know what's best for the greens, and you know what's best for somebody else's team."
Heh, thanks, Coach. Hey, GCM got Coach Williams to talk about superintendents way back in the December 2002 issue. Wow, that was a long time ago... hard to believe. That was actually my first Reflections interview for GCM.
Williams told GCM:
"I coached the high school golf team. The principal came to me one day and said, 'I need you to coach a spring sport also.' I was already the assistant football coach and the head basketball coach. He gave me a choice -- baseball or golf.
I played baseball in high school, and I remembered how that baseball coach always had to line off the baseball field, line the batter's box, drag the field and those kinds of things. I never saw a coach mowing a green, so that was one of the reasons I chose golf. I think if the course conditions would have been left up to me, there's no way I would have been resourceful enough and competent enough to make sure it would have been taken care of.
It made me realize how lucky we are that we have people that work their tails off to make golf fun for us."
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