By Brad Ziemer: It would have been fun to see the Vancouver Canucks go on a long Stanley Cup playoff run. But there is a consolation prize of sorts after the Canucks bowed out in the first round, losing in six games to the Calgary Flames. As I was saying to my wife just the other day, ‘well, now it’s officially golf season.’

As supporters of the great game of golf, we are excited to sponsor PGA TOUR Canada's upcoming PC Financial Open again, back in Vancouver May 25-31!

In recent years many golf writers have been writing stories about how golf is dying... It quickly became a novel story to write, with suggestions of different games golf course operators could facilitate in order to save their business.

Winter is a great opportunity to catch up on the advancements in the industry, but it is definitely not a time to turn our back on the grass; turf still needs to be monitored throughout the winter and when grass needs to be saved action needs to be taken.

Gary Stadnek brings with him extensive golf knowledge, graduating at the top of his class in Greenspace Management, and has worked on courses from Ontario to the renowned St.Andrews in Scotland. We asked him a few questions in this Q&A.