The USGA recently held a small summit at Tulsa Country Club, here is one of the highlights...
"One of the most interesting parts of the informal get-together was a video link discussion with agronomy expert Jim Moore, who now serves as the director of the USGA Green Section Education Program. Moore began by admitting that the USGA had probably made a public relations blunder with its earlier slogan Brown is the new Green. Firm and Fast is the new mantra used to describe how inevitably measures across the country to save money and conserve water are going to result in courses not using wall-to-wall irrigation and not providing lush conditions as far as the eye can see.
"This is the worst week of the year for superintendents," he said from his office in drought-stricken Texas. "Everybody watches The Masters and figures that's how their course should look."
Moore said courses built in the past 30 years have been too long, too hard and not sustainable in that there are too many bunkers and too much maintained turf. He said many courses will need to be redesigned in the next 30 years to save on water, chemicals, fertilizers and most importantly, labor."