Thoughts From a Foolish Golf Course Superintendent

A young Superintendent develops thresholds for turf pests; an old one develops threshold for societal menaces. (5/6/22)

Everything worth knowing is not known; everything known is not worth knowing. (5/5/22)

One Superintendent maintains a golf course because it is his job; another maintains a golf course because it is beautiful. (5/4/22)

One Superintendent wants to die because he has more things to do than he has time; another wants to die because he has more time than he has things to do. (5/3/22)

One golfer treats woman with contempt; a fool treats his wife like other woman. (5/2/22)

One course prohibits fishing; another allows no fishing. (5/1/22)

A young Superintendent imagines he knows who he is; an experienced one treats himself like a stranger. (4/30/22)

One Superintendent gains a job and loses a life; another loses a job and keeps a wife. (4/29/22)

A young Superintendent who thinks he is an old superintendent is like an old superintendent who thinks he is a young superintendent. (4/28/22)

I watched a greenkeeper who was very undisciplined and asked for forgiveness; I watched another who was very disciplined and begged for mercy. (4/27/22)