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Out with the old,
in with the new

Hello, 2007. And, as with every change of the calendar, it’s out with the old and in with the new. Although it may look a little like GCM has gone GQ, rest assured that the golf course management industry’s No. 1 publication will give no ground in providing you with the information you need most each month. (Turn the page to learn more about the changes in GCM.)

This new face on our industry’s leading magazine, along with the reshaping of the content inside, has inspired me to make some serious (and some not so serious) New Year’s resolutions.

• Read every page of this magazine. I hate to admit it, but I started skipping the warm-season turf articles a couple of years ago. I’ll not do that anymore.
• Listen to music more on my iPod instead of all those news and sports podcasts.
• Exercise regularly — after all, if GCM is going GQ, I’ll have to spiff up, too.
• Stop giving GCSAA CEO Steve Mona such a hard time about his clean-living ways. (Steve even orders chicken at a steakhouse. Oops, I think I already broke this one.)
• Play a lot more golf.
• Ask “GCM’s Ask the Experts” why golfers can’t read signs on the course unless they say “Winter Rules.”
• Shave my beard. (I’ll wait until after the GCSAA Education Conference and Golf Industry Show in Anaheim. I can be a little more low profile next year.)
• Attend more chapter meetings.
• Join the Wee One Foundation. (Actually, we all should join it. Check it out at www.weeone.org.)
• Take up fly fishing. (I live in a great place to fly fish, and I love fishing almost as much as golf.)
• Make my “turning 50” appointment with my doctor a month before my birthday. (My wife’s asking about my life insurance last month really shook me up.)
  

Here is the takeaway from all this. Enjoy a balanced life. Include golf in your life, but follow other interests as well. A couple of years ago, I read about a guy who lived through a plane crash. He noted that one of the things that did not go through his head before the crash was, “Gee, I wished I had stayed at work a little more.”

And while you take care of your personal balance, GCSAA’s plans for 2007 include more national media exposure for superintendents, investing in chapters through our pilot field staff program, and more new benefits like “GCM’s Ask the Experts.”

It’s a full plate, but the year stretching out ahead looks promising. See you next month in Anaheim.

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