Turf Talk

Ty and Rob are joined form the course by Matt Gourlay, CGCS, MG, AGS (x/@mattgourlaycgcs). Matt is the superintendent at Hillcrest County Club in Boise, Idaho, and the recipient of the2025 GCSAA President’s Award for Environmental Stewardship.

Open mic Turf Talk... What was on our minds and posting some pictures from our phones of things going on on our courses.

Ty and Rob are joined by Ryan Kraushofer, CGCS (X/@GolfSuper2GM) and Trevor Ploetz (X/@TheCrestKeeper) both of whom, along with Ty and Rob, have been a part of GCSAA First Green Field Trips. The GCSAA began managing First Green in the summer of 2018. Since then 21,379 students participated . There has been field trips in 44 states. Looking at you Delaware, Maine, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Vermont and West Virginia.

Scott (X/@scottobrienturf) joins us and takes us on his journey thru the golf maintenance world and how he ended up at Busch Gardens with his unique position.

Josh Fleisher (X/@Molecricket09) joins the space and we cover his renovation to paspalum and some of his board service is South Florida.

Ron Pote of NanoOxygen Systems (X/@NanoOxygenSys) joins the show and introduces us to his oxygen systems.

We are joined by Nick Pappas (X/@NPappas23) Field Director for the NFL and we go thru his career from building stadiums to being on the field in some of the biggest games in sports.

Tom Vlach, CGCS (x/@TomVlach ) is the founder of Triumph Group, a search and placement firm specializing in country clubs. He has been at some amazing clubs over the years and talks about his journey to where he is today.

Sean O'Rielly (x/SeanDecisiveFL) President of Decisive Design and Environmental Services joins us and bring his knowledge of all things drones and drone spraying. Its been around a lot longer than we think it has.

This Episode is in partnership with FIRM and 100th Monkey Enterprises. This ain't no hobby.

Dr. Patrick McCullough (x/@PMcCullough_) joins us and discusses his background and covers some ways to control stubborn weeds.