Hal Phillips
Recent Articles
CSI golf greens
How a group of inquisitive scientists developed a water, soil and available-nutrition testing collaborative for the industry’s most treasured surfaces.
Incoming GCBAA president emphasizing safety in 2025
Jon O’Donnell takes office fresh off Heritage Links’ 25th anniversary.
Making the grade — at or near grade
It can only be natural and intimate if it drains. Go inside the design and construction methodology at Florida’s new Soleta Golf Club.
‘Not a song or a dance’
Superintendent Robin Sadler breaks down everything he and the Mickelson National team have done to become the first GEO Certified facility in Canada.
What to do about the s-word?
An Arizona turf veteran explains the methodology he used to help neutralize the salty problem facing desert courses.
Time well spent in the Land of the Long White Cloud
A destination course leaned on its crew to regrass playing surfaces when golf tourism slowed. The work produced even more oohs and aahs once visitors returned to New Zealand.
Hanse blends vintage, modern at Ballyshear Links
Phase I development is complete at Thailand’s Ban Rakat Club, which was conceived as an homage to The Lido.
Landscape enhancers
A 36-hole facility in the California desert revamps its plant palette and irrigation system to satisfy modern water, labor, golf and homeowner realities.
Restoring Ross at Florida’s oldest club
Fry/Straka at work on Belleair CC, just 98 short years after Donald Ross returned to redesign his own 1915 effort.
Not all course closures are forever
Courses are still closing, but at a lower rate than before the start of the pandemic — and some once-shuttered courses are even reopening their doors.