GPS Tracking Allows Facilities to Manage Turf Areas by Viewing Player Traffic Flows VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA (March 6, 2017) - The USGA has introduced Resource Management, a new web-based product that will help golf course superintendents, owners and operators be more precise, efficient and productive in maintaining their facilities. Launched today during the North American Golf Innovation Symposium in...
President Grantland Rice III with 2016 Women's Player of the Year Elaine Wood BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (March 4, 2017) -- On Saturday, March 4, 2017, the Alabama Golf Association’s Annual Meeting, Board of Directors meeting and Awards Luncheon was hosted by The Country Club of Birmingham in Birmingham. Annual Meeting and Board of Directors Meeting A new slate of officers and board of directors was nominated...
USGA Website: Modernizing Golf's Rules FAR HILLS, N.J., USA and ST ANDREWS, SCOTLAND (March 1, 2017) – The USGA and The R&A have unveiled a preview of proposed new Rules of Golf, as part of a joint initiative to modernize the Rules and make them easier to understand and apply. The online release of this preview begins a six-month feedback and evaluation period during which all golfers worldwide...
Virginia Derby Grimes pictured at Wynlakes G&CC in Montgomery FAR HILLS, N.J. (Feb. 23, 2017) – The USGA today announced that 1998 U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur champion Virginia Derby Grimes, of Montgomery, Ala., has been named captain of the 2018 USA Curtis Cup Team. A biennial competition between top female amateur golfers from the United States and Great Britain and Ireland (GB&I), the 40th...
BIRMINGHAM, AL - The Alabama Golf Association (AGA) has announced the schedule for its annual educational series of USGA Rules of Golf Seminars. The six scheduled seminars are free of charge to attendees, who will view a narrated computer presentation on the basics of the Rules of Golf followed by question and answer sessions. Seminars typically last between 1 ½ to 2 hours in duration. A free 2016 USGA Rules...
