McKinney Roughs Nature Park is preparing to open 13 miles of trail to mountain bikers in a few weeks, and I enlisted pro mountain bike rider and REI instructor Cindy Abbott this morning to give me a ...

Spring has finally sprung across the northern tier of the Central Region and with it, the first sustained surge of turf growth. Some golfers have commented that you better not stand still too long in ...

Phil Mickelson recently expressed concern about the mowing patterns on the rough shared by the Skins Game producer Chad Mumm. He said he would prefer a down grain and didn't want it too long, as it ...

Some golfers may prefer a well-manicured golf course, highly-maintained with very green, very short grass that's easy to play off of. But, according to two recent studies at the University of Illinois ...

How would you describe the perfect natural rough? For many golfers, the romanticized version would be a sparse stand of golden brown fescue, about knee-high, crowned by slender seedheads that yield ...

A proposed $7.5 million federal road renovation project at Lake Berryessa as a bonus includes building a hiking trail to make reaching scenic Cedar Roughs Wilderness a far easier undertaking. Napa ...

Some golfers may prefer a well-manicured golf course, highly-maintained with very green, very short grass that's easy to play off of. But, according to two recent studies, a naturalized landscape that ...