During the past several years, TurfNet has reported live from many events, such as the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, the 2017 Solheim Cup in Iowa, the inaugural U.S. Senior Women's Open in Chicago and this year's Presidents Cup in Australia.
Add the 2020 Rose Bowl to that list.
Beginning Dec. 27 (thanks to a chance meeting earlier this year facilitated by our friends at Brandt) TurfNet news and education director John Reitman will be volunteering for the New Year's Day game in Pasadena, California, on field superintendent Will Schnell's team and sharing the experience with readers in the TurfNet Tackles the Rose Bowl blog, sponsored by Brandt.
Reitman will be there through game day, sharing a behind-the-scenes look at what Schnell and his crew do each year to provide college football players with a surface that is the envy of the college football world and even has earned comparisons to Augusta. TurfNet also will visit other historic venues in the area, including the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and Brookside Golf Course which for every special event, including concerts and UCLA home football games, is transformed from one of the area's most popular golf courses into a parking lot and tailgate area thanks to an around-the-clock effort by superintendent George Winters and his team.
Follow our experiences in real time on Twitter.
Throughout the week, Reitman will be posting updates to the live blog, sharing photos through Instagram and producing a couple of videos so readers can get an up-close-and-personal feel for what it's like to prepare a field for the oldest postseason game in college football.
