All Stars of Turf: Mark Hoban, Rivermont Golf Club, Johns Creek, GA
For more than 15 years, Mark Hoban has built a career of promoting a sustainable and minimalist approach of managing golf course turf at Rivermont Golf Club in Johns Creek, Georgia. At age 67, he insists he is only getting started. Hoban, who prepped under Palmer Maples at the nearby Standard Club, uses biologicals, homemade compost tea and other organic nutrients to promote healthy turf and soils that require very little fungicides and are naturally resistant to disease pressure. Through the use of several species of native grasses he has eliminated 30 acres of irrigated turf. Those native…
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