March 13, 2008

  • USGA awards grants totaling nearly $1.5 million 
  • Grass makes biofuel
  • World Scientific Congress of Golf coming up

  • They got the goods
  • John O'Hurley in Reflections
  • Inside Your Water
  • Going natural
  • Bigfoot is baaaaack!

  • Deadline extended for pesticide survey
  • Arysta LifeScience becomes GCSAA Silver Partner
  • IECA names Award of Environmental Excellence winners

  • Valent brings new Pythium tool to turf market
    *BASF introduces Segment herbicide
  • John Deere Golf introduces Precisioncut mowers
  • Syngenta's Tenacity gets EPA registration
  • Underhill's HoseTap facilitates hand watering
  • Storm launches water-saving irrigation controller

  • M. John Anderson, GCSAA member and director of golf course maintenance operations at Bay Hill Club and Lodge, is hosting the Arnold Palmer Invitational
  • Alejandro Campoy is hosting the MasterCard Classic
  • Robert Hertzing, GCSAA Class A superintendent, is hosting the AT&T Champions Classic.
  • Williams, former GCSAA president, passes away at 93
  • Superintendents in the news

  • GCBAA elects officers, appoints committee chairs
  • Agrium adds marketing manager
  • Barenbrug appointed to company board

  • Upcoming events in the world of golf course management
 

Inside GCM

For March

  • In "They got the goods" Darcy DeVictor wraps up the news from the 2008 Golf Industry Show in Orlando.
  • For the March "Reflections" Seth Jones talked to John O'Hurley, perhaps best known as J. Peterman on "Seinfeld."
  • "Inside Your Water" offers information on nutrient trading by Shelby Chunko, project manager for LandStudies Inc. in Lititz, Pa.

On the GCM blog

  • In Going natural, Scott Hollister, GCM editor, reports from the New England Regional Turfgrass Conference about an educational session on naturalized areas.
  • Bigfoot is baaaaack! is a report by Teresa Carson from Las Vegas where there was a sighting of Bigfoot, and a presentation by Dave Shetlar, Ph.D., on insects and insecticides.