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Mondays with Matt: Touring West Bend Country Club (Part 1)

In this video, world-renowned golf course superintendent and turf expert Matt Shaffer stops in at West Bend Country Club, a historical Langford and Moreau golf course in southeast Wisconsin. There he joins superintendent Brian Bonlender on a tour of the rolling hills of the Kettle Moraine topography, and learns about Brian’s maintenance practices.

In Part 1, they talk about the kind of maintenance equipment Brian uses (including Steiner tractors for the classic pushup greens), the varieties of grass on the course, staffing challenges and more.