"EDGARTOWN, Mass. — Standing alongside the 13th green at the Vineyard Golf Club on Martha’s Vineyard, Jeff Carlson spotted a small broadleaf weed between his feet. As the superintendent charged with maintaining the club grounds, he instinctively bent to pluck it, then stopped.

"“We have a weed here or there,” he said unapologetically.

"It was the rarest acknowledgment in American golf course landscaping — the Vineyard Golf Club is not meant to be as unnaturally perfect as many of the country’s best-known courses.

"Opened eight years ago, the club is thought to be the only completely organic golf course in the United States, its 18 holes groomed without the use of a single synthetic pesticide, fertilizer, herbicide or other artificial chemical treatment."

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I wish they had good closeup shots of the fairway and greens. Other than that minor thing, good article!

I was just reading this article on CNBC. I wonder how the maintenence costs compare to a typical golf course. If you can replace fertilizer with miorganite, and reduce the amount of water, not only does it sound like it would be cost savings, but more courses would be apt to try this in order to reduce their expenses.

Great article. And it came with a new jab I can use...

Morph and TT: you have very nice lawns, for organic lawns...

I know this course went in 100% organic. They mulched all the trees they had to remove and used no 'starter' ferts to get going. I don't know if they have maintained an organic approach but I know they started that direction. They've been in for 10 years or there abouts.

Yep very cool stuff
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