The Ladder: Jake Mendoza, Detroit Golf Club, Detroit, Michigan

Published: March 5, 2020, 2:30 p.m.

Jake Mendoza, superintendent at historic Detroit Golf Club discusses how working for a few legendary superintendents help shape his career and prepare him for his current position. He also discusses following another legend who logged more than 50 years on the job at Detroit, inheriting the PGA Tour's Rocket Mortgage Classic and how new challenges, such as labor issues, affect daily maintenance practices on 36 holes that were designed by Donald Ross and at a club where Ross's brother was president for three decades.