March 23

 

  • OSU-led team gets nematode research grant
  • GCSAA increases Golf Channel package
  • PGA to offer Free Fitting & Trade-Up Month

  • New GCSAA member publication to debut
  • Project EverGreen scholarship program
  • Irrigation Association sponsors Australia study tour

  • Turbo TeeJet expands spray tip line
  • PBI /Gordon introduces Q4 turf herbicide
  • Toro builds NSN virtual classroom
  • LebanonTurf to produce ryegrass resistant to leaf spot
  • Monument approved for 24 new weeds
  • Andersons offers Governor granular PGR

  • Fred Klauk is hosting The Players Championship
  • Scott Poynot, CGCS, is hosting the Chitimacha Louisiana Open
  • Klauk on The Golf Channel Thursday
  • GCSANC announces award winners

  • Hanna gets TPI Honorary Membership Award
  • The Institute elects officers, trustees
  • Cleary names new president, sales rep.

  • Upcoming events in the world of golf course management

 

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Hanna gets TPI Honorary Membership Award

Renowned turfgrass breeder Wayne Hanna, Ph.D., has been given the Turfgrass Producers International Honorary Member Award.

Hanna, famous for the breeding work during a 30-year career with the USDA/ARS, is now retired from ARS but continues to work full-time as a professor and turfgrass breeder with the University of Georgia.

 

 

 

 

 

Hanna(left) and Warren Bell, TPI President

The TPI Foundation's Honorary Member Award is presented to individuals who have improved the turfgrass industry in a significant way. It is the highest honor the organization bestows.

Hanna was been responsible for the breeding and release of TifSport and TifEagle bermudagrass and TifBlair centipedegrass.

Hanna's other legacy, perhaps just as important as his breeding work, is the stringent oversight protocols for all of his new grasses. TifSport, TifEagle and TifBlair are patented varieties that can only be sold as certified sod, sprigs or seed and only by licensed sod producers who are required to become members of carefully monitored growers associations.

This has made certain that these grasses are grown, inspected and sold under a rigorous set of rules and guidelines designed to promote on-going purity and uniformity. This concern for the maintenance of varietal purity was a major factor leading to the development of the International Turfgrass Genetic Assurance Program.

The Institute elects officers, trustees

The Environmental Institute for Golf has elected officers and welcomed four new members from the golf industry to its board of trustees.

Bill Kubly, owner and CEO of Landscapes Unlimited, LLC, was elected chairman. David Pillsbury, PGA Tour golf course properties COO, was elected vice chairman/treasurer.

Mark Kizziar, president of Superstition Mountain Properties, Inc., Rafael N. Martinez, publisher/CEO of The Green Magazine, Ken Melrose, executive chairman of The Toro Co., and GCSAA Secretary/Treasurer David S. Downing II, CGCS at Rivers Edge Golf Club in Shallotte, N.C., were each added to the board of trustees and will serve three-year terms.

"Mark, Rafael, Ken and Dave bring a wealth of expertise to the board of trustees," Kubly said. "I am delighted that these gentlemen have joined us in making a commitment to advance environmental practices on the golf course and I look forward to working closely with them."

Harry Cavanagh, Cavanagh Law Firm; Tom Chisholm, retired vice president of Eaton Corp. and past chairman of the USGA Green Section; and GCSAA Immediate Past President Timothy T. O'Neill, CGCS at the Country Club of Darien, retired from the board of trustees after serving six, five and three years, respectively. Michael J. Hurdzan, Ph.D., of Hurdzan/Fry Golf Course Design, Inc., will remain on the board for one year as immediate past chairman.

Those continuing their service on the board of trustees are: GCSAA Vice President Ricky D. Heine, CGCS; GCSAA President Sean A. Hoolehan, CGCS; Meadowbrook Golf President/CEO Ron E. Jackson; GCSAA CEO Steve Mona, CAE ; Great White Shark Enterprises CEO Greg Norman; USGA Green Section National Director James T. Snow, ESPN/ABC broadcaster Roger Twibell and Nike Golf President Bob Wood.

Cleary names new president, sales rep.

Mary Ellen (Cleary) Warwick has been named president Cleary Chemical Corporation. She is a third-generation Cleary family member and succeeds her mother, Barbara Cleary, who has served as president for over 25 years.

“I am pleased that my daughter has the same passion for this business as I do,” Barbara Cleary says. “It's a perfect time for the next generation to take the reins as Cleary enters a new era of growth. Mary Ellen will oversee the introduction of exciting new products and technologies in the turf and ornamental markets, in addition to leading the expansion of our service commitment through the growth of our sales force.”

The company also announced the addition of Joe Chavarria as a technical sales representative serving both turf and ornamental customers in the Pacific Northwest.

He has more than 20 years of industry experience in the turf and ornamental markets, most recently with Simplot Partners.