Welcome to Super Secrets, a GOLF.com series in which we pick the brains of the game’s leading superintendents. By illuminating how course maintenance crews ply their trades, we’re hopeful we can not ...

If you’ve ever had a root canal, you understand your superintendent’s conflicted feelings about aerating greens. “The misnomer is that we love doing it — we hate it just as much as golfers do,” says ...

Aerating golf greens needs to be done Since we aerated the greens this week at Bellevue Golf Course, let’s talk about why this has to be done. We do this twice per year, pull out the cores, shovel ...

A typical golf course has 25 to 50 acres of fairway. Aerating such large acreage requires considerable time and labor, especially when pulling cores and cleaning up the debris. Being such a laborious ...

BELLA VISTA — The Property Owners Association’s Golf Maintenance Department will begin aerating and overseeding village golf courses in September. By core aerating greens, water and air movement are ...

People often ask the question, "Should I aerate or not?” The question is most frequently asked by those who play golf, probably because they see the courses aerated at different times of the year.

We can all agree that showing up to the course and seeing that the greens have been aerated isn’t a welcome sight. Before you start grumbling about the grounds crew, realize that they aren’t psyched ...

Golfers aren’t the only ones who hate it when superintendents aerate greens. “We hate it, too, believe me,” said Dick Zepp, who served as superintendent at Cyprian Keyes GC in Boylston for 20 years ...

Fall in the South means footballs are flying, a much-deserved break in the heat is coming and core aeration is underway at courses with creeping bentgrass putting greens. Many golfers understand that ...