Article: You're a what? Golf course superintendent.

Paul McGinnis keeps the budget balanced and the greens green. He maintains the golf course at the Alta Mesa Country Club in Peoria, Arizona.

As golf course superintendent, McGinnis uses business management skills and spends half his time behind a desk. But he begins his day riding the course. "You've got to get out there," he says, "and see what the grass looks like, because that's the heart and soul of it.

"My staff always gets the big jobs done," he says. "They mow the fairways, tees, greens, and rough. But when I drive the golf course, I make a list of all the little things that need to be done to set us apart from the golf course down the ...

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