A Plea For Greenkeepers
A Plea For Greenkeepers
Some of the best–informed turf men that I have encountered anywhere are right here in California. Yet I have been shocked to learn of the scant remuneration they receive, in some instances but little more than men under them are paid for manual labor. Brains are surely worth more than this.
Inside the skulls of the capable modern greenkeepers there must be more than good old-fashioned “Horse–sense,” which is essential to be sure. But with the sources of information today, scientific research has crammed craniums with knowledge which has developed greenkeeping far above the old hit–or–miss methods of experiment to definite ways of certainty. I believe that the club officials are gradually recognizing this. The true greenkeeper is not an ordinary laboring man but a highly specialized thinker, –– and brains have always been worth something. They always will be.
Johnny Farrell putting against a testing machine operated by Dr. Fred Grau on an experimental green at Arlington where the USGA tries out grasses.