Originally, this post was intended to be an intelligent, thoughtful column about modern day golf course operations in the face of a changing economic environment, but then Wilber goes and writes some epic piece on Karma and Kevin Ross shocks everyone with his retirement and Paul MacCormack pens a zenful story about Chris Tritabaugh and the Ryder Cup, so . . .

I decided to wait until everything settled down and the afterglow wore off before I publish my masterpiece.  In the meantime, I'll just let Mark Hoban talk science and sustainability and reduced inputs and pollinators and worms and stuff.