Mar. 6, 2008

  • March Green Links features bird habitat
  • Rounds down slightly in January
  • MLB turf managers renovate Phoenix high school field

  • A wrong kind of diversity?
  • GCSAA honors certified superintendents
  • Inside your game
  • On the GCM blog

  • PBI/Gordon becomes GCSAA Silver Partner
  • Toro and Flowtronex enter sales and marketing alliance
  • Jacobsen dealer network expands

  • John Deere Golf launches Terraincut mowers
  • Club Car introduces Precedent i2 with Excel
  • KMB Technologies introduces polymer-coated urea
  • BASF launches online training for Trinity users
  • Kraken aquatic herbicide joins Phoenix product line
  • Cub Cadet has new turf application equipment
  • Florida approves reduced buffer zone for Curfew
  • DuPont plans to launch Acelepryn insecticide

  • Ron Benedict, GCSAA superintendent, is hosting the Toshiba Classic
  • Ryan Stewart, GCSAA superintendent, is hosting the PODS Championship
  • NYSTA elects 2008 officers and directors
  • Superintendents in the news

  • Architect Ted Robinson dies at 84
  • Lebanon Seaboard hires Heegard
  • Profile adds Gauthier to technical service tea
  • Agrotain expands sales and marketing staff

  • Upcoming events in the world of golf course management
 

Super Notes

Ron Benedict, GCSAA superintendent at Newport Beach Country Club, is hosting the Toshiba Classic in Newport Beach, Calif.

Ryan Stewart, GCSAA superintendent at Westin Innisbrook Resort (Copperhead Course), is hosting the PODS Championship in Palm Harbor, Fla.

NYSTA elects 2008 officers and directors

The New York State Turfgrass Association has elected its 2008 officers and directors. Owen Regan, owner of Organics & More Ltd., is the new president. He served as vice president of NYSTA in 2006 and 2007, secretary/treasurer in 2005, and as a board member since 2002.

Greg Chorvas, vice president for 2008, is the superintendent at Cantine Veterans Sports Complex.  Secretary/treasurer is Robert Sanderson, grounds and landscape manager of the Sodexho campus services team at Nazareth College.

Newly elected directors include: Craig Yunker, Batavia Turf LLC; Craig Currier, GCSAA Class A superintendent, Bethpage State Park; and Tom Wright, GCSAA Class A superintendent, Mohonk Mountain House.  Other members currently serving include: Peter Muller, Quality Lawn Care; Timothy Hahn, GCSAA Class A superintendent, Greystone/Shadows Golf Courses; Rick Holfoth, CGCS, Country Club of Rochester; Roger Lind, Grassland Equipment & Irrigation Corp.; and Michael McNamara, GCSAA Class A superintendent, Grossinger Golf & Country Club. Michael Maffei, CGCS, is serving as past president.

Superintendents in the news

Southern Pines (N.C.) Pilot, "Bunkers require immense amount of labor," column by freelance writer Trent Bouts, editor of the Carolinas CGSA’s official publication, about bunkers, the inordinate amount of attention they receive and therefore the ongoing amount of bunker maintenance superintendents deal with.

San Antonio News Express, "What’s new on the coast," a mention in the travel and city guide about Newport Beach & Golf’s seaside Arnold Palmer signature course in Port Aransas, Texas, an Audubon sanctuary site designed to contribute to coastal habitat improvement, has more than 50,000 ornamental native species planted throughout, and incorporates a salt-tolerant new species of turf, featuring Jim Brown, CGCS.

Golf Business, Up close & personal, feature in the First Off section of the National Golf Course Owners Association’s official publication (page 22) about GCSAA President David S. Downing II, CGCS.

Private Club Member, "A day in the life of a golf course superintendent," by James Pittman, CGCS at Rolling Hills Country Club in Rolling Hills Estates, Calif., about the variety of duties encompassed in the workday of a golf course superintendent.

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