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When you think of Hokkaido, I’m sure what comes to mind is Genghis Khan and chocolate-covered potato chips. After spending the past few days at Sapporo, Furano, and Asahikawa, I can assure you that there is a lot more to Hokkaido than that.

You may have already seen the January 2011 issue of Greenkeeper International, with its cover image of Phuket’s Blue Canyon Country Club and the promise of insight into turfgrass management in Southeast Asia.

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Do I look rakish? There is good reason for it. I had a presentation yesterday at the Park Hyatt Tokyo with 160 greenkeepers in attendance. We talked about why Japan is the most difficult place in the world to grow grass, and what to do about it.

Like Manny Pacquiao, I took the month off, spent some time at Japan, and made plans for a match in 2011. I also went to India and visited nineteen golf courses, including the Ft.

As we approach a new year, I like to reflect on those sage expressions that help me to understand the world and the type of life one should lead.

These prestigious culinary awards are given to an eclectic selection of restaurants (and or dishes, or regions, at my whim) based on a year in which I ate approximately 1091 restaurant meals in sixteen countries.

After the Turf Science Seminars at Tokyo and Osaka last week, ATC held a judicious bonenkai at Senri Chuo. This company party bid farewell to 2010 with an inimitable blaze of dissipation.

You’ve heard by now that I made an eagle and two birdies in a tournament round at Boracay in November, winning a behemothian trophy and subsequently taking a hiatus from golf to indulge my other interests.

I mentioned in my November Golf Report that I had turned my attentions to other things after such an astounding victory. Trainspotting. Songwriting. Reflections on female pulchritude. What followed was some despiteous concern from my readers, aspersions that my normal vocabulary may not be suitable for songwriting.