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Vandals cut blue spruce on golf course, presumably to serve as his Christmas tree

The tree was cut in broad daylight with a chain saw between the second fairway and seventh tee at the Prescott Golf Club, south of Ottawa, between Dec. 5 and 6.


Kelowna looking at purchasing robotic line painter to line its municipal sports fields

The machine can paint lines on city-owned sports fields in half the time it takes a human being to do.


Wheelchair battery snafu grounds former golf superintendent from boarding flight home

A former golf course superintendent from Salmon Arm, B.C. – now a paraplegic following an accident in May of 2021 – was recently denied boarding access to fly home after speaking at the British Columbia Golf Superintendents Association conference in Victoria.


Uplands Golf Club superintendent Brian Youell named CGSA’s John B. Steel award winner

The award is presented annually to an individual, chosen by the CGSA board of directors, who has made an outstanding contribution to the advancement of the profession of golf course superintendent.
 
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Equip Expo

Innovations abound at Equip Expo with advances in robotics, battery-powered equipment

Manufacturers of traditional gasoline-powered mowing and landscaping equipment have almost universally tapped into the escalating technology behind robotic and battery-powered equipment, while customers have embraced the ability to operate tools and machinery that deliver similar or higher output and run time yet are significantly more environmentally friendlier and require less labour. » Read more...
 
Events 
 

Landscape Congress

January 10 - 12, 2023
Location: Toronto, ON
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Ontario Golf Course Management Conference

January 17 - 19, 2023
Location: Collingwood, ON
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WCTA Annual Conference & Trade Show

February 15 - 17, 2023
Location: Richmond, B.C.
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Ontario Turfgrass Symposium

February 22 - 23, 2023
Location: Louisville, KY
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Canadian Golf Course Management Conference

February 22 - 24, 2023
Location: Vancouver, BC
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