by mangoventures | Sep 24, 2021 | Golf Course Parasites, Golf Courses
While we’ve talked about pests before, moles on golf courses are obviously a very different animal to chafer grubs or leatherjackets. However, they can still pose issues towards golf courses. Moles do not destroy individual blades of grass on a mass scale, but their...
by mangoventures | Sep 3, 2021 | Golf Courses
If the links courses represented nature’s version of a golf course, and parkland courses are the most clearly artificial, then desert courses stand between the two. Of course any desert worth its salt mine is hardly likely to see the manicured grass for a fairway and...
by mangoventures | Aug 20, 2021 | Golf Courses
When we think of golf, the first image that springs to mind is often not a ball, a club, or even a golfer in mid-swing, but a carefully manicured green. Though it was not the first type of golf course developed, parkland – the stereotypical golf course, of...
by mangoventures | Jul 30, 2021 | Golf Courses, Golf History
The word links has nothing to do with a link on a chain, but rather comes from the Old English word hlinc, meaning a dune or ridge. An archaic word for an archaic style of course. However, the links may seem a novelty to those golfers who have never played upon them....
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