Water Conservation Ads from Denver Water

Denver Water aims to reduce overuse of the local water supply through educational campaigns. Check out these two hilarious videos and a story about the CommonGround Golf Course using recycled water.

NBC - Nullified Bird Calls?

You have to admire the guy who listens closely to ambient noises on golf telecasts. Is this a failed PR ploy to paint golf courses as wildlife sanctuaries? Sometimes trying to hard at the wrong thing will only hurt you.

Dixon Golf Commercial

Don Cheadle can now add "Dixon Golf Commercial" to his list of performances which includes Oceans 11/12, Traffic, Hotel Rwanda and of course his role as a cowboy porn star Buck in Boogie Nights. But of course this isn't Cheadle's first role where he is doing good for the earth, check out this video where he portrays Captain Planet.

Microlawns

I love grass - bamboos, bents, blues, natives, creeping, clumping, climbing the list goes on. I love using them as tools in the landscape, employing their specific characteristics in the garden, the playing field and in the wild. But there is a point where the use of grass seems redundant. Where there are more inputs required to maintain the grass than what the function of the grass in-turn produces. Case in point, the Microlawn. These attempts to deliver beautification and utility to the urban landscape seem ass-backwards to me.

I recently came across a photo-blog called Microlawns.tumblr.com that seems to share my view. Curious to learn more I contacted the creator David Yoon to learn where the motivation for his blog came from:

Microlawns started because I was doing a lot of walking to work...pretty rare for a guy living LA. I guess walking gave me lots of time to notice all the little details you miss when driving, so I started carrying a camera and snapping photos of minutiae: flowers, sidewalk graffiti, and then all these weird little leftover lawn patches. As oddball remainders of property demarcation they remind me of vestigial railroad scar tissue, slashing out awkwardly unusable parcels of land across the city. Also they're inherently absurd, because you know it's someone's job to tend to them—mowing, watering and edge trimming these purely symbolic bits of landscaping. I figured they're mysterious and meaningless anyway, so why not start creating silly origin mythologies around them? Never thought it'd get picked up by the likes of Huffington Post, Metafilter or Reddit, but that's the Internet for you I guess.

David has allowed me to repost some of his photos here, but to see a larger collection of true ridiculousness in action go to his blog. If you'd like to contribute join the Flickr Group.

Want To See A Golf Superintendents Jaw Drop?

From GolfTV:
To celebrate being named 2010 PGA rookie of the year, PUMA decided to helped Rickie Fowler finally combine his two passions in life: golf and motocross. The result? An awesome day on the course, some amazing shots and one exhausted caddy. Special thanks to Eagle Creek Golf Course in Naples for letting Rickie hit the course. He shot a 70 by the way.

What To Do With A Broken Down Golf Cart? Drink It!

We're all about recycling and reusing materials here at Turfhugger. That broken down golf cart can usually be used for parts, but once it's reached the ultimate in deterioration and finds a final resting spot, you've got to wave goodbye, raise a glass, and say "cheers"!
Two versions to this drink, enjoy.

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Ice Golf?

When it comes to introducing golf to new areas of the world the environment/climate is usually one hazard that requires some ingenuity and resourcefulness to overcome. There are many possible solutions to help us overcome some of these environmental hurdles, including Artificial Turf, Grey Water, Urban Golf, and Pasture Golf, but Ice Golf?