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Flagstick in/out: Why aren’t more superintendents using GPS sprayers?
| Filed to: Equipment, sustainability, Technology There are some technologies that I evaluate and immediately start making a mental list of reasons they may never work or are ahead of their time. Some tech seems to be solutions looking for a problem. Others are too expensive ever to see a return on investment. GPS sprayers are not one of those. In fact, it is one of the easiest technologies to justify adoption. I don’t understand why they aren’t approaching 90% adoption on golf courses.
Flagstick in/out: The pros and cons of spray drones
| Filed to: Drones, Equipment, Technology Let’s talk about spray drones. To be specific, let’s talk about multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, used as agrichemical sprayers or spreaders. I will refer to them as spray drones because that is what they are called colloquially. Drone spraying really should be defined as aerial autonomous spraying. Geodefined zones are created via the accompanying software, and applications are made within those zones.
Flagstick in/out: Are drones and remote sensing worth it?
| Filed to: Drones, research, automation Broadly speaking, drones in turfgrass management fall into two categories: sensing drones and spray drones. This article focuses on sensing drones. A sensing drone is equipped with cameras or other instruments that capture data about the turf surface. These can range from simple RGB cameras to multispectral, infrared, hyperspectral or LiDAR sensors.
Flagstick in/out: Information sharing and education are not the same
| Before I write about any more topics, it’s worth examining how we gather and evaluate information in a world dominated by social media. What I am talking about is social media in all its forms and the influencer culture it has created. A recent study found that U.S. adults get 53%-54% of their news from social media (Pew Research Center, 2025), and 38% of the news consumed by adults 18-29 comes from “news influencers” on social media. Clearly, social media plays a large role in our culture.
Flagstick in/out: Is Autonomous technology still in?
| Filed to: autonomous mowers, Technology, Maintenance Welcome to my semi-regular column in GCM. In discussing with the editorial staff what I would call this column on new technology and changes occurring in the golf management industry, I settled on the rule change to leave the flagstick in to speed up play. The key word here is change. I use the metaphor of flagstick in or out to distinguish between changes I think are changes that should be made compared to changes that should not be made.
17 Goals, 16 World-Changing Entrepreneurs, and the Global Partnerships to Support Them
VIDEO What is Unreasonable Goals? Unreasonable Goals represents the first program of its kind: a global, public-private partnership dedicated exclusively to scaling up ventures that are positioned to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
How One Entrepreneur Turned a Lack of Funds into a Competitive Advantage
Semtive has created the world’s most innovative wind turbine: a cost-effective, compact, and extremely quiet device called the NEMOI, which can generate power for anyone, anywhere. The NEMOI is made of aircraft-grade aluminum and is guaranteed to produce power in the slightest breeze, yet it keeps working even in hurricane speed winds.
How to Explore the Globe While Spending Less, Making Money, Speaking to Natives & More
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While Elon Musk Looks To Mars, We’ll Fix What’s Happening On Earth
No one should feel like we can rocket off to Mars until we first clean up the mess we’ve made on Earth. By the time those of us living in the industrialized world reach the age of 18, we will have left a carbon footprint of 360 metric tons – compared with 80 metric tons for others on the green planet. We are waist-deep in one of the greatest change climates of all time. Today, we face problems we didn’t have ten – or even two – years ago.
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