Certified Golf Course Superintendent at Horton Smith G. C., Lake City Alumni, Husband, father, band nerd. Ozark Turf Association Sec/Treasurer #SBI19 #SBIalumni
Battlefield, MO
Joined July 2013
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Mel Waldron III retweeted
Good job @adamlongoTV! @Marine_Marathon, what is the Marine Corps Marathon without that loop around Hains Point? Let's tell Trump to @SaveEastPo for the people and the Marine Corps Marathon!
Mel Waldron III retweeted
Distributor Sales Reps with One Week left of EOP.
Swag @ParAide @TheGCSNetwork
Mel Waldron III retweeted
40K people got to see what we are fighting for today. And what are we fighting for? Access to space on public land. The desire to not see an entire multipurpose space converted to an upscale golf course. Real radical ideas…
Let’s hope the MCM, and everyone else, can continue to use this park.
Mel Waldron III retweeted
The @GCSAA Spray Technician Certificate is now live! The new program provides training to ensure pesticide and fertilizer applications are performed safely and accurately. bit.ly/4idWW0a
Mel Waldron III retweeted
🧪The @GCSAA has launched the Spray Technician Certificate, a new workforce development program focused on pesticide and fertilizer application.
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Mel Waldron III retweeted
Not sure there’s a better marathon routing than MCM. It would be a shame to lose this route.
Mel Waldron III retweeted
We’ll be at the Marine Corps Marathon this Sunday, mile 11.75, right as runners enter East Potomac Park.
40,000 runners passing straight through the park we’re fighting to save. Come join us, ~8am to noon. Signs provided.
Come for all or part of it! It's worth fighting for.
Mel Waldron III retweeted
Well said and great work as always for giving @TZurybida and his team the credit they deserve for improving the property under @links_national
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nytimes.com/interactive/2026…
Gift link.
Mel Waldron III retweeted
Good article today from the NYT. I have still yet to hear one good reason why we should get rid of a broad, multi purpose space to satisfy one thing and one thing only. It defies imagination and what PUBLIC space is meant to be.
nytimes.com/interactive/2026…
After our meeting @GolfSuper2GM @CareerGolf @GCSAA_Central and I, were able to play Cliffhangers @GolfBigCedar big thanks for having us. Too many pictures of the course to fit on Twitter!
Great turnout and speakers for today’s Ozark Turf Association meeting at Big Cedar Grandview Conference Center. @CareerGolf kicking things off, thanks to @GolfBigCedar for hosting.
Mel Waldron III retweeted
Great turnout for the OTA Assistant/EM education event. Too notch education at a top notch facility. @GolfBigCedar Thanks to the presenters today! @CareerGolf @GolfSuper2GM @ClintonMcKee4 @MTrentManning @GCSAA
Mel Waldron III retweeted
One of the saddest facts about the East Potomac situation is that it was being renovated - Trump’s problem is that it wasn’t being renovated by himself.
The National Links Trust was raising private contributions, making much needed repairs, and had a world class golf architect lined up to do the upgrades for free.
Those plans preserved the historic character, maintained affordability, and protected public access to the rest of the park.
Would trees have come down? Yes. Would land be moved? Yes
Would there be the uproar there is now? Absolutely not.
If Trump had really cared about the people this impacted he would have worked with the NLT to expedite their plan. But he didn’t. And he doesn’t.
This is not about giving the people a world class public course. It’s about giving himself a 17th.
Mel Waldron III retweeted
How many lawyers does it take to destroy Hains Point?
What a sad fact that the fate of a public park that serves all could be converted into something meant to serve so few.
We implore people to recognize that this is not about Trump - we just want to preserve our park.
Mel Waldron III retweeted
Today I tried to answer a bunch of questions about the East Potomac situation — where we are, how we got here, where things might go next, and what I think about it all. thefriedegg.com/articles/don…
Mel Waldron III retweeted
East Potomac is facing two threats right now: this administration’s attempt to bulldoze a 130 year old public park, and a bill in the Senate, BAAJA, that would strip away the legal tools currently being used to stop them (both here and beyond!).
Contact your senator. Tell them: PROTECT EAST POTOMAC. Vote NO on BAAJA as it currently exists.
Takes two minutes. Fill in your address, it finds your reps automatically, edit the message if you want, hit send. That’s it.
saveeastpo.com/send-a-letter
There’s a bill in Congress right now, the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026, that would make it almost impossible to stop what’s happening at East Potomac.
It would let federal agencies unilaterally decide historic preservation doesn’t matter, narrow what even counts as “harm” to a historic place, and strip courts of the power to meaningfully review agency decisions.
This is the exact playbook NPS has already used at East Potomac. Rushed paperwork. A 7 year old report used as cover. A claim of “no adverse effect” that doesn’t survive basic scrutiny.
If this bill passes, the legal fight that’s currently working, the one that got a judge to stop the bulldozers, becomes a lot harder to win, for this park and every historic place in the country.
East Potomac isn’t an isolated story. It’s a preview.
Call your senators. Tell them to oppose the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026 as written.
Mel Waldron III retweeted
Now is NOT the time to give more authority to the executive.
The Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act does just that.
East Potomac will become a study in how to bulldoze any historic property.
Reach out to your reps now, it takes 1 minute: saveeastpo.com/send-a-letter