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heavily used, while reducing unnecessary costs on acreage that isn’t. “Information and
data are critical in our business,” said Darrell J. Marcinek, director of golf maintenance
for the Somerset (N.J.) County Park Commission. “This tool would take the guesswork
out of our budgeting, and the end product will be better for the golfers because we’re
maximizing our limited resources. “The USGA is at the forefront of our industry. There’s
nothing on the market that I’m aware of that does what this tool does.”

The USGA Resource Management product will be an important part of the toolkit
used by USGA agronomists across the country in 2018 as they work directly with facili-
ties to improve the impact and efficiency of their maintenance practices. To contact a
USGA Green Section agronomist, go to http://www.usga.org/greensectionstaff.html.

The USGA also has begun working with the industry to develop additional func-
tionalities for the application and encourage innovations built on this platform.

The ongoing development and refinement of USGA Resource Management reflects
the USGA’s commitment to advance the game by making the benefits of science and tech-
nology available to all facilities. These advancements will help to elevate the golfer experi-
ence and improve productivity at 35,000 golf courses around the world.
Golfer heatmaps can tell supers where players are going—and where not—so courses don’t have to
maintain areas that aren’t used, sometimes resulting in great savings.
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