Jan. 31, 2008


“To fight the bug, we must understand the bug.”
Sky Marshal Tehat Meru in "Starship Troopers"

 

  • GCSAA Class A and SM members can express their opinions and earn .25 service points by taking the annual Leadership Survey. It will be available online through Feb. 29. The results will be provided to the national media. Golf Industry Show attendees can take the survey at the Internet Café.

  • Scott Hollister, GCM editor, has been covering the GCSAA National Championship from start-to-finish. All of his reports are on the GCM Blog:
    Round One
    Round Two
    Round Three preview
    Wrapup

  • GCM's science editor Teresa Carson reports that life at the OCC is full of surprises: Ted Horton, singing bus drivers, an awesome GCM booth, bugs from outer space and explosive fertilizer.

  • Not everyone on the GCSAA staff leaves for Orlando at the same time. So there's good possibility that the weather can take a turn for better... or worse. This year, the people scheduled to travel on Tuesday afternoon or Wednesday morning drew the short straw. Ken Moum, GCM Newsweekly editor, reported on what it looked like at GCSAA headquarters in Lawrence, Kan. Meanwhile GCM Senior Associate Editor Seth Jones, was looking at the storm through the windows at Kansas City International.
  • Steve Mona’s last, Greg Norman’s first, GCSAA Opening Session was a home run opening to the 2008 GIS, according to Seth Jones.
  • The "Multi Course Companies: What You've Always Wanted to Know" panel drew a full house Wednesday, and GCM Senior Associate Editor Seth Jones was there to report on the proceedings.

"A majority of the top 10 highest paid Troon employees are superintendents." -- Jeff Spangler, senior vice president, Troon Golf

  • Rainbird and E-Z-Go are the latest companies to join the GCSAA Partnership Recognition Program
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  • Assistants looking for assistance: Seth Jones blogs from the Assistant Superintendent Session, where panelists offer advice on how to make the leap from assistant to superintendent.
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  • Bunny Smith, GCM managing editor, took advantage of the wait for a shuttle bus to talk to Joe Korman of TTG Custom Signage about his program to support junior golf
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  • Associate editor Darcy DeVictor spent Wednesday on the Field Seminar touring three Orlando-area golf courses and Disney's enormous Wide World of Sports complex then posted a recap on the GCM blog.

  • Drawn by the syncopation of the fascinatin' rhythm: Street performers hit the floor at the E-Z-Go booth.
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  • Racing takes over the Team Solutions Center
    Move
  • About 25 years ago a scientist in California looked out at his yard and realized that there were fewer weeds growing under his Callistemon Citrinus (Bottlebrush) plants. It aroused his curiosity, and now Syngenta has introduced Tenacity herbicide based on that science.
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  • Profile Products has sold its DryJect Services business to former owners, Peter Van Drumpt and Chris des Garennes.
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