Welcome to Super Secrets, a GOLF.com series in which we pick the brains of the game’s leading superintendents. By illuminating how course maintenance crews ply their trades, we’re hopeful we can not ...

If you’ve ever had a root canal, you understand your superintendent’s conflicted feelings about aerating greens. “The misnomer is that we love doing it — we hate it just as much as golfers do,” says ...

Since we aerated the greens this week at Bellevue Golf Course, let’s talk about why this has to be done. We do this twice per year, pull out the cores, shovel them off the green, and top-dress the ...

A typical golf course has 25 to 50 acres of fairway. Aerating such large acreage requires considerable time and labor, especially when pulling cores and cleaning up the debris. Being such a laborious ...

People often ask the question, "Should I aerate or not?” The question is most frequently asked by those who play golf, probably because they see the courses aerated at different times of the year.

For many golf professionals, the bane of their existence is coming, and for others, it's already here. Despite many area courses being in peak condition right now during moderate summer season, the ...

We can all agree that showing up to the course and seeing that the greens have been aerated isn’t a welcome sight. Before you start grumbling about the grounds crew, realize that they aren’t psyched ...

Golfers aren’t the only ones who hate it when superintendents aerate greens. “We hate it, too, believe me,” said Dick Zepp, who served as superintendent at Cyprian Keyes GC in Boylston for 20 years ...

IT’S A NECESSARY evil and on the rare occasions it occurs, it can make golfers grumble. I’m talking about the traditionally biannual aeration of greens, teeboxes and fairways on golf courses. After ...

AERATION OF GREENS at Discovery Bay Golf Club near Port Townsend will result in some schedule adjustments for the venerable course. A full-day closure is planned Tuesday, with the course’s front nine ...