In 25 years of traveling to visit with golf course maintenance teams around the country, you can imagine some of the stories I’ve heard — stories that are wild, weird and sometimes almost unbelievable. Bizarre stuff tends to happen on a golf course, and, for whatever reason, usually the superintendent and the maintenance crew are the ones who witness the chaos.
In what I hope starts a new tradition here at Golfdom, I’m sharing, with their permission, stories of some of the crazy things superintendents I know have seen over the years.