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Expanding education
GCSAA brings a growing variety of options to the 2007 Education Conference in Anaheim.
Whether you’re looking for answers to the agronomic challenges on your course or to develop new career strategies, the programs planned for the 2007 GCSAA Education Conference can help.
Attendees can select workshops and sessions “a la carte” or pick from three specially designed education “tracks”: Assistant Superintendent Track, Employer Education Track or Student Education Track.
The GCSAA Education Conference this year packs more than a dozen workshops focused on career success and media relations/
communications into three days.
Whether you are a student, an assistant or a seasoned golf course manager, these workshops are intended to enhance your career.
Some, like the Career Management Forum, are back by popular demand from previous years. Others are entirely new or are refocused to reflect change in the industry. The Changing Face of Golf Forum, for example, combines such previous favorites as the Women’s Forum, Tribal Golf Forum and The First Tee Forum to focus on the superintendent’s role in growing the game among nontraditional audiences.
All workshops will be conducted in the Career Action Center, located in Hall E.
You Asked For It…You Got It
3-5 p.m.
Wednesday, Feb. 21
This session, which debuted last year in Atlanta, will once again feature hot topics chosen by members who voted on the Golf Industry Show Web site throughout the summer.
The votes are in, and the topics members chose are:
- Foliar applications — Cale Bigelow, Ph.D.
- Technology and your course — Jason Bass
- Aeration strategies — Kevin Ross, CGCS
- Weed management — J. Scott McElroy, Ph.D.
Innovative Superintendent Breakfast and Sessions
6-8:20 a.m.
Thursday, Feb. 22, and Friday, Feb. 23
Take your innovation on the golf course to the next level at the Innovative Superintendent Sessions. Beginning with the Innovative Superintendent Breakfast, presented in partnership with BASF from 6 to 6:30 a.m. on both days, these popular sessions showcase the creative genius of golf course managers.
Topics covered in the sessions include efficient water management, interview tips, subsurface aeration and vacuum drainage, management team communications and basic meteorology (Session I); and budget-conscious facility renovation, communicating with the PowerPoint tool, Canada geese on and off the course, improving relationships at the facility and marketing for superintendents (Session II).
In the Moment: The State of Public Golf
1-2:30 p.m.
Thursday, Feb. 22
In this forum that is specially designed for attendees in the public/municipal golf arena, panelists will cover current trends and their financial impact as well as special challenges. The forum will include time for discussion and networking.
Michael J. Hurdzan, Ph.D., will lead the panel of James N. Ward, CGCS; Chris L. Schauerman; and Edward A. Fisher, CGCS.
Research Session: Science for the Golf Course — Making Your Job Easier
5:30 p.m.
Thursday, Feb. 22
Superintendents attending the education conference can learn about current scientific research aimed at helping them do their jobs better.
Scientists who have received research grants will present the results of their studies in Thursday’s two-hour session.
Each half-hour presentation will give attendees plenty of practical information to take back to their facilities and will include time for questions from the audience. Topics range from timing nematicide applications to preventing fire ant mound establishment to practices to prevent anthracnose.
Research funded by The Environmental Institute for Golf will be featured in a half-dozen or more posters, which will be on display in the Answer Zone in Hall E.
USGA Green Section Education Program
10:15 a.m.-noon
Friday, Feb. 23
For better or for worse, fads and fallacies have had an influence on golf course management over the years. The 2007 USGA Green Section Education Program studies the irony of change, with an emphasis on how fads come and go and sometimes lead to sound turf management practices.
As in previous years, the Green Section’s regional directors will take turns at the podium throughout the program for their fast-paced “Best Turf Tips.”
The program also will include a look behind the scenes at the U.S. Open and presentation of the 2007 Green Section Award.
Coffee Talk with the Experts — The Latest and Greatest in Turf Management
9-11:30 a.m.
Saturday, Feb. 24
Let a panel of experts, led by Roger “Mark” Ruff, CGCS, answer your questions about some of the biggest topics in turf management, including bunker maintenance (Robert Randquist, CGCS); Poa annua prevention and control (Ronald N. Calhoun); foliar nutrition (Roch Gaussoin, Ph.D.); seashore paspalum (Ronny Duncan, Ph.D.); and managing new diseases with new tools (Lane Tredway, Ph.D.).
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