December 2004 Green is Beautiful The Official Publication of Ontario Golf Superintendents Association 2005 OGSA/CGSA Joint Conference Super & Pro Save Golfer's Life A Pox On Your Fairways The blew Organics CANADA POST PUBLICATIONS MAIL PUBLICATIONS AGREEMENT No. 40027105 Postmaster: Please return undeliverable copies to The OGSA, 328 Victoria Rd. S., Guelph, ON N1H 6H8 Contents Green is OGSA/CGSA Joint Conference........................................... 16 A Pox on your Fairways....................................................................... 20 Beautiful The Official Publication of Ontario Golf Superintendents’ Association Canadian Golf Superintendents Association news....................... 6 Catch of the day...................................................................................... 12 Cyber super............................................................................................. 9 Editor's message ..................................................................................... 4 From roots to shoots............................................................................. 5 Golf course highlight - Springfield G&CC........................................ 15 Golf Course Superintendents Association of America news...... 7 Health & safety........................................................................................ 8 Looking back.............................................................................................29 Mechanic's corner.................................................................................... 9 Member profile: Interview with Scott Wheeler............................. 14 Off the fairway........................................................................................ 27 On the road again................................................................................... 25 President's message.................................................................................. 3 Super & Pro Save Golfer's Life............................................................. 21 The New Organics.................................................................................... 19 COVER PICTURE Turf or consequences.............................................................................. 28 Park Country Club of Buffalo photo by Scott Dodson, CGCS Whats new........... .....................................................................................26 Golf Course Superintendent Advertisers All Turf Ltd................................................................................................. 24 Almack Agronomic Services Inc....................................................... 10 Bartlett Tree Experts............................................................................. 24 Braemar Building Systems.................................................................. 23 Burnside Golf Services......................................................................... 4 DCS Agronomic Services..................................................................... 22 G.C. Duke Equipment Ltd..................................................................... 23 Heron Instruments................................................................................. 24 Maple Turf Supply.............................................................................. 3,10 Master's Turf Supply Ltd....................................................................... 11 Ontario Seed Company........................................................................ 4 Out on a Limb......................................................................................... 22 Skyway Lawn Equipment Limited.................................................... 11 OGSA is committed to The P.E.S.T. Institute.............................................................................. 4 serving its members, Turf Care Products Canada- Irrigation............................................. 13 advancing their profession Turf Care Products Canada.................................................................. 32 and United Agri Products........................................................................... 21 enriching the quality Vanden Bussche Irrigationand Equipment Ltd.............................. 24 of golf Zander Sod Co. Limited....................................................................... 6 and its environment. President's message by Rob Ackermann Weston Golf & Country Club Since my last report, the OGSA Board has completed a comprehensive strategic plan. In order to accomplish this daunting task, I had all of our directors locked ONTARIO GOLF SUPERINTENDENTS’ ASSOCIATION in a room with no windows for a day to Guelph Turfgrass Institute think about nothing but the OGSA’s 328 Victoria Road South current and future directions. The Guelph, ON N1H6H8 Ph: 519-767-3341 planning session was extremely Toll Free: 877-824-6472 productive and resulted in 7 Key Fax: 519-766-1704 Result Areas that are linked with many I have long maintained that the Email: ogsa@gti.uoguelph.ca Website: www.golfsupers.on.ca associated ideas and action items. most important part of our profession The 7 Key Result Areas are as follows: is people. Without good people, not BOARD OF DIRECTORS much worthwhile happens. Now, after PRESIDENT Rob Ackermann 1. Financial Viability. 8 years as a director of the OGSA, my PAST PRESIDENT Mark Piccolo 2. Member Services. time is up. I would like to thank you VICE-PRESIDENT Paul Scenna, ms TREASURER Bob Burrows, cgcs 3. Professional Development. for providing me the opportunity to SECRETARY Sean DeSilva 4. Staffing. interact with the wonderful people DIRECTORS Jeff Alexander 5. OGSA’s relationship with other involved in our great profession. Chris Andrejicka superintendent associations. Now, what gives with the picture Jarrod Barakett 6. OGSA’s relationship with other above? Well, recently someone asked Randy Booker golf associations. Doug Breen what I’m going to be doing with all my Rob Gatto 7. OGSA’s role in environmental spare time once my duties on the Jeff Stauffer issues. board comes to an end - my three OFFICE All of our directors will now have part answer is in the picture above. ADMINISTRATION Dorothy Hills specific responsibilities, related to Pat Thomas these Key Result Areas, which will Deborah Badger All the best over the holiday allow the OGSA to stay on a path of season and beyond! continued growth and success. “Green is Beautiful” is Printed on GREEN IS BEAUTIFUL EDITORIAL Brett Murray Recycled Paper COMMITTEE Technical Sales John Bladon, Editor Dorothy Hills, Coordinating Manager Maple Turf Supply Greig Barker 8112 King Rd. W. Business: (905) 857-2000 Doug Breen P.O. Box 370 Fax: (905) 857-8215 Angelo Capannelli Bolton, Ontario Mobile: (416) 580-8112 L7E 5T3 1-800-268-4425 Jason Hanna Brian Haum Scott Horsburgh Mark Prieur Layout, Design & Printing provided by... Kevin Falls Bill Green Scott Sleep Green is Beautiful 2004 Although every effort is made to check material for publication, the association is not responsible for material published on behalf of its contributors. All rights are reserved by the publisher Tel: 519.763.5745 • Fax: 519.763.9532 and any reproduction in whole or part 32-34 Essex Street • Guelph, Ontario • N1H 3K8 without the written permission of the e-mail: info@graphicservices.ca • www.graphicservices.ca publisher is prohibited. Editor's message Welcome! Well, another change of season has arrived and with it O.G.S.A. Welcomes comes a season of revamping, reinventing, refurbishing, our newest members learning and planning. Jason Ayres Class A The Green is Beautiful Editorial Committee had its annual Oliver's Nest Golf & CC meeting with the focus being next year’s planning, Scott Cairns Class C improvements and selecting Article of the Year and Photo of National Golf Club of by John Bladon Canada the Year. If you as a member have any suggestions, please do Nu-Gro Corporation not hesitate to email Dorothy or myself. Jason Coady Class S Greenwood Golf Course This final edition of the season is filled with some more fine submissions. I Simona Hallas Class C would like to thank all those regular contributors for their efforts during 2004. Tyandaga Golf Course Daisy Moore, Angelo Capannelli, Mark Prieur, Barry Endicott, Doug Breen, Bill McAllister Class A Larry Murray, Doug Johnson and Pam Charbonneau... cheers to you for making Rattlesnake Point GolfCourse this publication a better one! Also, all those superintendents and associates who Tom Newton Class B made contributions throughout 2004, many thanks for your efforts. Legends of the Niagara Lastly, the joint CGSA/OGSA conference promises to be outstanding. In the Jamie Parrott Class F interim, I hope you and your families have a great holiday season. See you in Golfers Dream Golf Course Toronto! 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All courses held in North York except Turf seed, Pesticides, Nutrite Fertilizers where noted and Bayco Golf Accessories Gov't exam held on Monday following each course P.O. Box 7, Waterloo, Ont. N2J 3Z6 Instructor: Paul G. Pilley, B.Sc., M. P. M. Tel: (519) 886-0557 Fax: (519) 886-0605 1-800-465-5849 Email: seeds@oscseeds.com For more information and a brochure contact: Victor Freiberg Ken Graham P.O. Box 1021 Lindsay, Ontario K9V 5N4 Trevor Hunter A. Kent McDonald E-mail: ppilley@cogeco.ca Offices located throughout Ontario Members of OGSA, CGSA and Golfmax Suppliers to the NGCOA David Schmelefske Tel: (705) 324-PEST (7378) Fax: (705) 324-9729 From roots to shoots The Year In Review 2004 he winter of 2003/2004 started with melts they are there at the top of the thatch feeding a pretty dry early fall and an extremely voraciously. Feeding damage peaked a bit later this year and wet late fall in 2003. Because of this, was well into mid-May. We saw our first feeding damage on many superintendents applied their the greens at GTI by the end of May. The feeding damage preventative winter fungicide protection resembles spring Fusarium patch but is a lot more sunken and then, they received enough rain to because the turf leaves are eaten down to the crowns, and make the fungicides ineffective. There often the crowns are destroyed as well. It was during the was a lot of variation in the performance months of June and into July where the greens were by Pam Charbonneau of the fungicide applications depending damaged because of the starlings pecking out the OMAF Turfgrass on the date they were applied. As a leatherjackets. Some areas of the greens looked as if they had Specialist result, some superintendents came out of been core aerated, there were so many holes. the winter with more snow mould than they had seen for There were reports of annual bluegrass weevil damage many years and others came out very clean. The snow, when during the summer and there was some late damage from it did fall, fell on frozen ground and in some instances the black turfgrass ataenius. Our damage at GTI showed up in temperatures were a bit too cold for snow mould mid-August. About that time, there was also some black development. It is interesting that some courses in the area cutworm damage. In addition, we had some fall army worms had ample pink and grey snow mould and Dr. Hsiang, who infest one of the GTI greens. The damage that they caused needed the snow mould for his fungicide efficacy trials, did was very similar to cutworm damage. They continued to feed not get any. well into September. Adult flights of European crane fly were very, very heavy Diseases this fall. I think that they are the heaviest that I have seen As usual, the spring was pretty cool and wet. This provided since some of the first years that they were discovered in ideal conditions for Fusarium patch well into late spring. Ontario. The peak of adult flight was a bit early this year with The outer edges of snow mould scars were active during highest numbers of adult flights the first and second week in many days during the spring and there were new Fusarium September. I would say that because most golf course turf is patch spots developing as well. On shaded greens it irrigated that you can expect to see a healthy population of remained active well into the late spring and early summer. leatherjackets this fall and next spring. We have been Summer, what summer? I think we had our warmest and looking for leatherjackets on non-irrigated turf and have yet driest weather in September. There was only one or two days to find any. It was so dry during most of the adult flights, that this summer where temperatures exceeded 30°c. The good I am a bit doubtful that any of the eggs would have thing about the weather this summer is that conditions were developed. It is possible that if the winter is very severe there ideal for growing turf. Conditions throughout the summer may be some mortality of the leatherjackets but we don’t even were more like late spring conditions, with lush turf that was really know how susceptible they are to extremely cold rarely under any type of stress. The turf growth really never weather during the winter. Stay tuned. Hopefully, with each slowed down and it needed to be mowed often. winter that we experience over the next few years we will Summer diseases where pretty much none existent except learn more about the conditions that affect their winter for dollar spot. We had a tiny bit of brown patch show up on survival. our greens at the GTI and Erica Gunn, who provided turf diagnostics at GTI, came across it in a few samples during the Moss summer. As far as dollar spot goes, it started extremely late Moss is something that just keeps becoming more and this year. There was some good pressure in early July and it more of a problem. It was a good year for moss. I don’t think tailed off until later in August. The usual culprits, like that it is related much to the weather that we had this anthracnose basal rot and take all patch, were also diagnosed summer so much as it is related to current cultural practices in the lab, as well as some summer patch. There were no on golf greens. Dr. Eric Lyons, the new turf professor at the confirmed cases of Pythium blight this summer, that I know University of Guelph has an interest in moss. He hopes to of. attain some funding to look at the biology of silvery thread The dry conditions during early fall meant that there was moss and he has some unique ideas of how we can adjust almost no disease to speak of. Now that we have had almost some of our fertility practices to perhaps keep moss under a solid month of overcast, wet and cold weather we have had check. extreme pressure from Fusarium patch. One of the keys to Stay tuned as well for the next edition of “From roots to keeping snow mould in check during the winter is to control shoots”. I am currently at the Crop Science Society of the inoculum load going into the winter by keeping America meetings where over the course of the 4 days more Fusarium in check. This will be extremely important this fall. than 200 scientific papers on turf are being presented. In the next edition I will highlight some of the leading edge turf Insects research that is being conducted around the United States I am continually amazed at how early leatherjackets begin and Canada. feeding in the spring. It appears that as soon as the snow Canadian Golf Superintendents Association news Contained in I would like to personally thank the Their attendance helps to ensure a this magazine Conference Advisory Committee strong provincial presence, while their issue is ad­ consisting of Sean DeSilva (co-chair), registration dollars contributes a ditional inform­ Rob Ackermann, Paul Scenna, Jeff portion directly to OGSA coffers. At ation on the Stauffer, Corrie Almack, Marie Thorne the upcoming CGSA Annual meeting upcoming 56th and our headquarters staff for on January 10th 2005, a presentation International contributing to the success of this event. will be made to consider the adoption Turfgrass I also want to recognize the volunteer of “accreditation and mandatory by Bob Burrows Conference and contributions of both Kelly Scenna and education” and a slight reclassification Rosedale Golf Club Show, January Anne Burrows for their invaluable help of our membership and our standards. 6-11, 2005, Toronto. This joint with the development of the social and This process is a continuation of the CGSA/OGSA event is the highlight of spouses program, in conjunction with approach begun by the NOS principles. our year, and all indications point to a our very capable staff. Well done As reported over the past few years, if precedent-setting show in terms of size everyone! adopted, the program would certainly and selection of things to do and see. The development of this joint have some degree of impact on our There can be no doubt that the conference was indeed a long-standing profession. You are encouraged to conference week on the whole seems to goal of both Associations, and partially become familiar with the proposal and present some excellent opportunities brought to fruition with the guidance voice your concerns or support for this for education and camaraderie. We of many individuals, including Past motion. have attempted to bring forward a Presidents and past and current The 2006 conference is scheduled for sampling of some new and unique Directors of the OGSA and CGSA. Vancouver and is a joint CGSA/WCTA activities such as, three full days of pre­ They are all to be commended for their event. The 2005 Fall Field Day is now conference seminars with some foresight and responsible direction. confirmed for Jasper Park Lodge Golf exciting and interesting speakers, an The other notable advocates of a joint Club. I would suggest that you register opening and closing keynote speaker, event remain the grassroots support of early for play at this Stanley Thompson enhanced concurrent sessions, as well the membership and exhibitors. This gem. If you should have any questions as an internet cafe and trade show formula for success is now used across or concerns at all about any CGSA delegate education including larger Canada at similar regional turf activities, please contact me at any time. and more comfortable space for trade conferences. What better time than now, in the show luncheons. Another first is the We sincerely hope that you enjoy history of our profession, to belong to inaugural “Awards Luncheon” held on your week at the Metro Toronto both your Regional and National Sunday to honour the recipients of Convention Centre. Remember to Associations. Thank you for your various distinguished awards of a invite and register your support staff support over the past season! national or regional nature. During the such as mechanics, horticulturists, From my family to you and yours, conference itself, we have concurrent assistants, second assistants or best wishes for a safe, enjoyable and sessions on Sunday, and a wide array of technicians - all of whom could benefit. prosperous holiday and New Year! lecture topics apart from ‘turf are also offered. Topics include, among others: HR management, tree master planning, enhanced communication tactics with boards or committees, Audubon, and two popular superintendent panel discussions. For SUPPLIERS OF TOP QUALITY TURF PRODUCTS FOR OVER FORTY YEARS apres-conference times, there is the No. 1 Kentucky Bluegrass Ontario Distributor of Pre-grown President’s Reception at the Hockey Dense turf with great colour Hall of Fame, the Monday Night Party, Five varieties of Bentgrass (877) 727-2100 and the Gala Banquet with Grown on USGA spec, sand or native sand Erosion Control System (905) 727-2100 entertainment. Extreme Fescue Drive on it—Park on it www. zandersod. com Drought resistant—ideal for naturalization Without damaging turf Golf Course Superintendents Association of America Chapter Delegates Meeting by Sean DeSilva, Director of GCSAA Relations The 2004 Chapter Delegates meeting developed a chapter assessment tool determined not to move on to Phase 2 was held at the Kansas City Marriott, on designed to help individual chapters at the present time. The GCSAA September 25 and 26th, 2004. There develop long range improvement plans. headquarters will remain in Lawrence, were 98 delegates in attendance All chapters will be required to Kansas. However, the feasibility of representing 103 GCSAA chapters. The complete the assessment tool during “satellite” offices is currently being major initiatives being covered at this the first year of each affiliation investigated and discussed by the year’s delegates meeting were as follows: agreement. The OGSA will be required GCSAA Board of Directors. to complete the Chapter Assessment 2005 Golf Industry Show tool within the next 6 months. Certification Program Update After a steady decline in attendance The new certification process will during the 2002, and 2003 conferences, New Chapter Affiliation Agreement come into effect on November 1, 2004. the GCSAA entered into a partnership The current Chapter Affiliation The new testing methods will include: with the NGCOA for the 2005 Agreement expires in December of • Portfolio - the completion of conference, and have also entered into 2005. The OGSA signed a one-year hypothetical case studies and a partnership with the CMA for 2007 extension on our current agreement, problem solving techniques. and beyond. The following is what to while the new affiliation agreement is • Written Examination - a closed expect from the 2005 conference: being finalized. Highlights of the new book exam that consists of 229 • The educational portion of the agreement will be as follows: multiple-choice questions. conference will remain as it has in • Will clearly specify programs and • Attesting Procedure - will be the past. services available to the OGSA and completed by a chapter liaison • 800 exhibitors in 250,000ft2 of its members. appointment and practical trade show vs. 648 and 240,000ft2 • Membership conformity and by­ application skills. in San Diego. law changes. • If you have any questions related • The trade show floor will include • Completion of the Chapter to the above certification, please educational programs and Assessment Tool. contact the GCSAA Certification Interactive Solution Centers in • Amendments will be able to be Department at 1-800-472-7878, Greens Con-struction, Agronomics, made to the Chapter Affiliation ext. 3602. Clubhouse, Equipment Maintenance, Agreement before it expires. Irrigation, Electric Vehicle Test The OGSA will be required to change GCSAA Election Centers, and Driving Ranges by-laws from a “Class B” member to a All candidates were met who are “Superintendent Member” with the running for the 2005 GCSAA Board of GCSAA Financial Discussion GCSAA minimum requirements. All Directors. They are as follows: The GCSAA continues to remain other classifications can remain the • Tim T. O’Neill strong financially, and is broken down same. The by-law changes must be - Office of President into three separate companies. They are submitted to the GCSAA by January of • Sean A. Hoolehan as follows: 2006. - Office of Vice President 1. GCSAA • David S. Downing II 2. GCSAA Communications Association Name Change - Secretary / Treasurer 3. The Environmental Institute for golf. From an association’s perspective, its • Ricky D. Heine name is perhaps the most important - Secretary / Treasurer Final Financial Projections for 2004 will vehicle for communication. The • Gregg A. Blew - Director be as follows: GCSAA has formed an independent • James R. Fitzroy - Director Operating Revenues = $17,573,000 task group to study the issue of the • Mark D Kuhns - Director Operating Expenses = $17,258,000 GCSAA name and the viability of • Robert M. Randquist - Director Equals Net Operating Income = $315,000 changing it. The task group will be • Immediate Past President Investment Income = $240,000 bringing forth its recommendations in - Mark J. Woodward Equals Total Net Income = $555,000 2005. More information will be gathered Chapter Assessment Tool Update on Headquarters Location during the last few months regarding The OGSA and GCSAA share a Process the OGSA vote. I look forward to your common vision in serving and meeting After the completion of Phase 1, by comments and feedback. members’ needs. The GCSAA has an independent task group, it was Health & safety Tree Trimming and Supervisors by DougJohnson, SAFETAID and Health and Safety Consulting First Aid and Safety Supplies and WHMIS Training trust that you have all had a wonderful, prosperous • Maintain minimum working distances from energized summer and that you can now look forward to a well conductors. earned bit of time off. The following thoughts are for the coming summer or • Use only non-conductive tools, materials and personal perhaps some of you may be contemplating doing some protective equipment. tree trimming over the winter. Whatever your situation here are some things to think about. • If work must be performed near a power line or In the last couple of months there have been two deaths within minimum working distances, make sure the □f individuals who were working in or around trees. One employer has contacted the utility company to discuss lied while climbing up into a tree and he fell, killing de-energizing, grounding, or shielding the power himself on the way down. It doesn’t take much. Just lines. recently, on September 21, 2004, an accident claimed the life of a 32-year-old worker who was electrocuted after he • Inspect trees and limbs for structural weakness before came in contact with a 4.8-kilovolt power line while climbing or cutting. trimming a tree south of St. George, Ontario. The investigator has indicated that the worker was trimming a • Use appropriate fall protection equipment. tree just outside a home when he hit the hydro wires. It would appear the power had not been shut off. The main • Inspect all equipment before each use to ensure that question that everyone is asking is; was the worker it is not damaged or defective. qualified to do the work? If so, what safety procedures were in place at the time of the accident? • Use safe work procedures to prevent inadvertent If you are going to work around trees, or have someone cutting of climbing ropes, lanyards, and safety belts or in your employ work around trees, then you must ensure straps. :hat the workplace is safe and that you and the individuals working with you have evaluated the area for hazards. • Use safe work procedures for climbing, felling, Information from the National Institute for topping, and pruning trees. Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) notes the two leading causes of death in tree-trimming operations in • Ensure that employees required to operate mobile North America, in the last 10 years, have been equipment (for example, aerial buckets) have been electrocutions and falls. There were 68 electrocutions and properly trained. 52 falls relating to tree trimming. Dr Thomas Bender, director of the NIOSH division of • Participate in any training programs offered by the safety research, says these fatalities and injuries are employer. preventable. “We must act now to inform workers of the crucial prevention steps that can save their lives,” he says, adding that workers must be told of hazards and means of • Do it right. Do it safely. prevention. He explains that many tree trimmers and their employers may not be complying with Occupational Health and Safety standards according to their jurisdiction and are, therefore, unaware of the risks posed by Merry Christmas. i adequate or improper safety procedures and n equipment. He suggests the following: 'Enjoy the winter! • Conduct an initial and daily jobsite survey before beginning work to identify hazards and implement appropriate controls. SAFETAID • Assume that all power lines are energized and avoid Your 1st stop in safety! all contact (direct or indirect) until it is verified that the lines are de-energized. Cyber super MSDS COMPLIANT? Winter has quickly come upon us, few hours if you are still on dialup. that is for sure. It seems that each One retrieval service you can use is available through golfing season moves faster and the Plant Products website, www.plantprod.com. There is faster. This gives us the time to a link titled MSDS that will take you to COMPAS URL: reflect on the season’s success and www.compasmsds.com. The actual link that you would failures and tweak things for the search with is http://full.compassites.com . The first page following year. Conferences, that will appear is a disclaimer that COMPAS is not an by Mark Prieur, Assistant Supt. tradeshows, holidays and Fort Erie actual replacement for a hard copy provided from the Markland Wood CC hockey do not make up all of the manufacturer. After accepting the disclaimer you can winter. One must constantly focus search for your item either by supplier or product name. on improving and updating the methods in which they do Be warned, this site is the true meaning of too much things. One such task is updating the WHMIS workbook, information. For example, a search for Daconil 2787 will that fortuitous MSDS binder. The old method involved yield 17 results. Listed are the sheets for each formulation searching for the supplier who sold you the item, then (Ultrex Zn etc.), as well as country of origin and don’t calling and asking to speak with the representative from forget the French language versions. There are different the department who deals with the MSDS. Then the fax formats of each sheet listed such as, the original of the MSDS, which never came in clear anyway manufacturers, a two column PDF and there are a few (remember the fax paper that came in rolls?). Wordpad formats for those without Acrobat Reader (all Fast forward to the present where internet technology files are PDF format and require Acrobat 6.0 to use). This enables us to retrieve information at the click of a mouse site alone should provide all the information you need to (note to my Father: I told you this Internet thing was keep your MSDS up to date. Good luck and have a Happy going to catch on!). Getting MSDS information in one Holiday season. website allows one to be updated in just a few minutes, or Mechanic's corner by Larry A. Murray, President G.E.T.A.O. Equipment Manager, Pheasant Run Golf Course With the onset of the holiday season we all know that Registration to the Mechanics Program includes access to trade shows and educational seminars are not far off. This the trade show on both Monday and Tuesday and lunch year, the Canadian Conference will be held in Toronto. It on Tuesday. will include a Mechanic’s Program, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, January 11th. The program will include As you can see, the day will be very informative to all the following speakers: attending equipment managers. Don’t miss out on this opportunity and get registered immediately. Also, make E-Walk Walking Greens Mower, LF 3400 Controls & AR5, sure you bring your service questions to discuss at the presented by Paul Zellner from Jacobsen trade show. Equipment representatives are present to sit down and help you with your problems. I have found that RTV 900 presented by Brian Lee of Kubota Canada some of the problems or suggestions you offer will track back to listening ears at the manufacturing level. Toro Product Service Tips and Updates; Product Troubleshooting Procedures; New Turf Industry Equipment Technologies, I am looking forward to meeting and talking to my presented by Carl Osterhaus of The Toro Company. friends and all the readers, at the conference. Tire Applications, Proper Installation, Safety and Maintenance, presented by Dave Cook of Triwest Tire Canada, in Concord, Ontario. The OGSA year ender ... Crossword Questions Across Down 3. Super at Canada's #1 golf course 1. Pelino's assistant 6. Merit active ingredient 2. Former Dean of OAC 10. This Bill is a Niagara fixture 4. This H P super is not related to Richard 11. Devil's "Wright" hand 5. Successor to Beeney 13. Gateman and (blank) 7. OGSA and Weston GC 14. WOGSA "Ryder Cup" Host 8. She needed an ark in Peterborough 15. 1995 OGSA President 9. Nu-Gro President 16. Former Board of Trade Super 12. Mickalko's course? (blank) Creek 17. CGSA Executive Director 13. Clublink turf kings 19. Syngenta Superwoman 18. Schmelefske and Crew 21. This Chad's Mad 20. OGSA's office manager 22. Stauffer promotes this 23. He worked under Stanley Thompson at one time 25. Sometimes found on trees or at St.Georges 24. Bartlett Expert... 26. KW super Janzen's fave band 27. He's the man at Burnside... 27. This year's spring field day host 28. From Roots to Shoots columnist 29. The Toro (blank) 21 30. Former U of G Turf Professor 33. Monster Bluegrass grower 31. The City of Hamilton loves this Rob 35. Keith and John Boy have nothing in common 32. Kingsville's Lemieux 38. (blank) Mowing 34. OGSA Past President 39. OTRF Founder 35. This Scott of London is no 18 (blank) 41. McLean and (blank) 36. GTI Director 43. His turftoons are loons 37. Hutcheson Sand 44. Guelph super owner 40. (blank) Urea 46. This Paul hosted 2004's Ontario Amateur 42. Beacon's Heron 47. Owen Sound's environmental award winning super 44. The fairway snake and The National? 48. Seguin Super 45. European (blank) 50. Richard's Craigowan has a second name 49. Periodic table of the elements. See Iron 51. New Turf Research Chair 52. CGSA Super of the Year 53. Pro David and Super Paul of Brantford Simon George Technical Sales Maple Turf Supply Business: (905) 857-2000 8112 King Rd. W. Corrie Almack P.Ag. Fax: (905) 857-8215 P.O. Box 370 Mobile: (519) 841-3378 Bolton, Ontario 1-800-268-442S Almack Agronomic Services Inc. Tel: (905) 689-6174 L7E 5T3 sg124@hotmail.com Box 256, Carlisle, On Fax: (905) 689-8522 LOR 1H0 Email: c.almack@sympatico.ca The OGSA year ender ... Crossword answers on Page 22 Puzzle 154 Upper Centennial Parkway (HWY 20) Stoney Creek, Ontario, Canada L8J 2T7 Telephone 905-662-2663 • Fax 905-662-2253 CAN-USA 1-800-263-8606 Express Dual 890 Fairground Rd. R.R. #4 Langton Ont. NOE 1G0 & AngleMaster Phone (519) 875-4094 Fax (519) 875-4095 Reel Mower Sharpeners Website: mastersturfsupply.com email: mastersturf@uniserve.com Catch of the day Master’s Turf Supply held it’s Annual Customer Course, caught the most fish that day. A special thanks to Appreciation Day aboard of the C.S. Powell Charters in Terry Polischuk from Lynn Meadows for hosting the fish Port Dover on September 10, 2004. It was a gorgeous day fry. after a week of heavy rain from the hurricane down in We would like to thank our customers and we hope to Florida. Unfortunately, this caused the fishing to be less see everyone back in 2005. than desirable. John Ashley, from Mount Elgin Golf What caused this? by Jeff Silli, Ross Cutler and Tom Hsiang Jeff Silli & Ross Cutler are employees of Sparrow Lakes Golf Club in Welland, Ontario Tom Hsiang is a Turf pathologist at the University of Guelph In late August, this problem was seen on a golf course in the Niagara Penninsula near Welland, Ontario. Jeff Silli first observed the phenomenon, and Ross Cutler took this photo. The image shows a patch of yellowed turf with a non-circular green center. Just diagnosing from the image, and with the time of year in mind, the most likely disease suspects would be take-all patch, summer patch, brown patch or localized dry spot. The cause of this problem was not obvious until a second occurrence was observed. 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TURF CARE PRODUCTS CANADA Performance. Count on it. www.toro.com Member profile Interview with Scott Wheeler, Golf Superintendent, Forest City National Golf Club by fohn Bladon, Editor, Green is Beautiful n a quiet, chilly, November In 1989, Scott walked on to the his CGCS certification from the Golf morning, I met up with longtime property where Westhaven Golf Club Course Superintendents Association OGSA member Scott Wheeler. Scott was under construction and of America. has been the Golf Superintendent at introduced himself to Mark Hagen, Now at Forest City, under Scott’s Forest City National Golf Club in now of Hyde Park Equipment in maintenance regime and new London now for the past four years London. After “bugging” Mark ownership, the property has and we sat and talked about his 20 relentlessly for a job, he finally flourished. In this author’s opinion, it plus years in the workplace and the succeeded in getting hired. Following may arguably be the best value in the evolution that brought him to Forest his first season working under Mark, Ontario golf market...how often can City. Scott was given the title of Assistant you play bentgrass tee to green, with a Ironically, Scott did not initially Superintendent and never looked cart and 4 1/2 star conditioning for appear to be destined for a career as a back. He insists that Mark was his $60.00? turfgrass manager. Born and raised most prominent influence as he Finally, Scott is also a family man. the son of a poultry farmer and matured. He is married and has four sons: following his graduation from Nicholas, Benjamin, Mackenzie and Ridgetown College in 1983, Scott “Mark was amazing to work for. He Mitchell. Nicholas 19, is currently actually went to work for Cuddy really took me under his wing and made attending St. Francis University in Farms. After 7 years working as a sure that 1 was exposed to every Loretto Pa. on a golf scholarship and manager at a commercial farming opportunity to learn. He always made competes in the NCAA Div 1 operation, Scott decided it was time certain I attended seminars with him and Northeast Conference. for a change. willingly shared his knowledge. ” He, wife Lori, who is an accomplished photographer, and family live in “I suppose I came to a place where Ifelt I Eventually, Mark moved on to build Ingersoll just outside of London. had already spent a lifetime around The Oaks in London and Scott was farming. I was playing a lot of golf and immediately promoted. He spent the wanted to do something a little bit next 10 years at Westhaven as the golf different. Somehow it felt like a natural superintendent and while in their migration from field crops to turf.” employ, in August of 1998, received "In the Hot Seat" • Favourite Major? The Masters • Favorite Piece of turf equipment ever? Toro Pro Core • Ultimate foursome...you and what three? Trevino, David Feherty and Darren Clarke • Favourite Golf Architect? Tom Fazio • Lowest Round and where? 76, Westhaven • Favourite Meal? Anything Italian...Anything Wolf Blass.... • Favourite Course outside of Canada? Tie between Camp Creek, and Southern Dunes in Florida • Favorite Movie? The Shawshank Redemption • What is in the CD player right now? James Taylor • Rate your home lawn of a scale of 1-10 Well below average! • What do you envision yourself doing if you weren’t working the turf industry? Likely doing something else in agriculture... Golf course highlight Springfield Golf & Country Club 2054 Gordon Street, Guelph ON N1L 1G6 Website: www.springfieldgolf.on.ca Golf Course Superintendent: Ray Dlugokecki COURSE PROFILE What county is your club located in? What is the size of greens, tees & fairways? COURSE PROJECTS Wellington 102,000 sq ft of greens 72,000 sq ft of tees What projects have you recently completed? Is your club private, semi private, public, resort or 12 acres of fairways Deepened irrigation reservoir municipal? Re-shaped 6 bunkers and replaced drain Semi-private with 200 members What is your predominant grass? tile Bent/Poa - greens and tees Completed extensive monitoring of Typical number of rounds Dwarf Bluegrass/Poa - fairways ground water levels and surface water 33,000 rounds per year taking and their effects on our wetland How many USGA and loam greens? complex for PTTW renewal Typical opening and closing date 19 loam greens April 14 to November 14 What is the predominant soil type? Clay loam How long have you been a superintendent? LONG RANGE PLANS 14 years What equipment do you have in inventory? What long range plans for renovation do you 2 John Deere 6x4 Gators have in the next five years? How long have you been an O.G.S.A. member? 1 John Deere AMT 600 Install irrigation wet well and new pumps 15 years 1 Club Car Carrvall 11 Repair and replace original bunker How many staff? 1 Cushman Commander 4800 drainage 2 year round and 7 seasonal staff 1 Yamaha Cart New pesticide building and mix/load pad 2 Cushman Trucksters Audubon certification Who are your assistants and mechanics? 1 Jacobsen GK V mower 1st Assistant: Phil Legault 1 Jacobsen PGM 22 mower Mechanic: Doug Schultz 1 Jacobsen GK IV mower 1 Jacobsen Tri-King 1900 D mower CHALLENGES How many gardening staff? 1 Jacobsen Tri-King 1800 G mower 1 part time: Marianne Kirk 1 Jacobsen LF 3400 5-Plex mower Are there any particular challenges you face 1 Toro GM 3000 (verticut heads) with your property? 1 Toro GM 300 17 acre Class 2 Provincially Significant COURSE STATISTICS 1 Toro 1000 Walker Wetland is highly monitored and impacts How many holes? 1 Ransomes 728 Outfront Rotary all maintenance programs. 18 1 Lastec 721 XR Rotary Limited supply of groundwater recharge 1 Kubota L4310 diesel tractor into reservoir requires irrigation cutbacks What is the yardage from back and forward tees? 1 Hahn Multi-pro 418 in summer. 5,682 yards from the back tees and 1 Hahn 150 gallon spray tank Clay loam greens rootzone results in 4,503 yards from the front tees 1 Toro PA-17 fertilizer spreader compaction and drainage problems. 1 30 gallon utility sprayer How many bunkers? 1 Smithco Super Rake 39 1 Smithco Easy Rider w/brush 1 Smithco 21’ Sprayer with Raven SUCCESS STORIES How many times does water come into play? 1 John Deere Aerocore 800 7 ponds come into play 10 times Do you have any success stories? 1 Bannerman Aerway Slicer Currently certified in 3 of 6 Audubon 1 Jacobson 8’ aerator categories. Who was the original architect? 1 Agrimetal 3 pt. blower Water quality tests including site specific John F. Robinson 1 Ryan Jr. sodcutter pesticides produced excellent results. 1 Agri-trend 5 T dump trailer What was the year of original construction? 1 Scott’s Accupro 2000 rotary spreader Please list any innovative cultural practices 1989 1 Scott’s drop spreader you may perform. What is the size of your maintenance shop? 3 Stihl line trimmers Use of Profile, porous ceramic soil 4,000 square feet 1 Stihl 034 chainsaw amendment in conjunction with Verti- 1 Red Max reciprocating edger drain and core aeration has saved having What type of irrigation system? 1 Kamatsu power edger to re-build 2 or 3 greens. Rain Bird Stratus II - 4 years old 1 Stihl backpack blower 1 Foley Accupro spin/relief grinder Accreditation avenue by Jeff Stauffer Director of Government Relations An IPM Accreditation exam is being offered at the 56th The study materials required for the exam are: OMAF annual Canadian International Turfgrass Conference and Publications Trade Show on Tuesday, January 11, 2005 @ 9:00 a.m. #816 Turf IPM Manual # 384 Turfgrass Management Recommendations Please note that you must pre-register with Ridgetown #162 Diseases and Insects of Turfgrass in Ontario College to write the exam as there will be no on-site registration available. You will also find other related information to the IPM Accreditation at www.ontarioipm.com Canadian International Turfgrass Conference and Trade Show Available credits for IPM Accreditation Program Seminars Conference Education Program Environmental Planning for Golf 10 Tree Maintenance 1 Shaded Growing Conditions 5.3 Water Quality 2 Poa Management 10 Grow-in USGA Specifications 1.33 Grow in Quality Control 10 CTRF Update 0.66 Soil Conditions and Water Quality 10 Pesticide Exposure and Human Health 1.33 Golf Irrigation Auditor 15.3 IPM Accreditation Step II: The desk review 1 Sprayer Calibration and Pesticide Records 1 co-hosted by 5th annual Canadian International TURFGRASS conference and trade show METRO TORONTO CONVENTION CENTRE TORONTO, ONTARIO JANUARY 6-11, 2005 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS from CGSA / OGSA Joint Conference... Going For Gold: Lessons In Greatness The Role of the Superintendent in a From The Olympic Games Demanding Era of Mixed Messages Considered the dean of Canadian sports Lome Rubenstein is one of the world's best known commentators, with more than a quarter of a and respected golf writers. The author of six books century of broadcast experience, Brian and the golf columnist for the Globe and Mail for Williams maintains a youthful exuberance more than 15 years, his writing awards include three that is appreciated by fans of every sport he first-place finishes from the American Golf Writers covers. Association and a Canadian National Magazine Award. He reminds you why you watch the Olympics: the sheer Today’s superintendent has an increasingly complex role in excellence of the participants. He tells compelling stories of a challenging environment. Lome puts the mixed messages in struggle and success from Winter and Summer Olympics perspective and offers some strategies for meeting complex around the world. As someone who has met and interviewed demands. Canadian athletes in all sports at the top of their game, he He started playing golf and caddying at age 11, developing his shares with you the qualities they have that account for their skills enough to enter junior tournaments and caddy on the PGA success. Whatever it is you do there is a “gold” you can strive for. tour. By the late 70s, he was writing on the subject of golf for a So as he entertains with his anecdotes he also provides a number of publications (notably the Canadian Open program), powerful message about what it takes to be at the top in your starting his weekly column for the Globe and Mail in 1980. chosen field. Rubenstein then became an editor for SCORE Magazine, and a Williams has also hosted Grey Cup Weekend, Formula 1 frequent contributor to other national golf publications in the Racing, World Cup Skiing, World Figure Skating U.S. and U.K. Championships, World Junior Hockey Championships, horse For television, Lome has written and co-hosted programs such racing, championship golf and tennis. He also provides play-by- as The Acura World of Golf, a half-hour show on The Sports play coverage of Blue Jays Baseball on CBC. Network - for which he also conducts interviews and provides a stand-up weekly commentary. Lome’s latest book is Mike Weir: The Road to the Masters, published by McClelland & Stewart. TRADE SHOW SOCIALEVENTS The Trade Show opens in the Metro Toronto Convention The CGSA Awards Lunch on Sunday January 9th, a an excellent Centre on Monday January 10th at 10 am. The Ceremonial Opening is scheduled for 11:55 am. Meet your exhibitors until 5 pm and continue your visits on new event this year to honour our award recipients, is sponsored by Bayer Environmental Science. opportunity Tuesday between the hours of The President's Welcome Reception on Sunday January for you to... 9th is your chance to meet old acquaintances and 10 am and 2:30 pm. New this year will be an Internet establish new friendships. This reception is always Cafe right on the exhibit floor. viewed as a can't-miss event. This year's event will be •Network with your held at the Hockey Hall of Fame, and is sponsored by colleagues from across die O.G.S.A. Annual General Meeting Rain Bird International. country Tuesday, January 11, 2005 The Monday Night Party will feature Bowser and • Hear internationally Room 206D Blue. This event is sponsored by John Deere renowned speakers 7:00 a.m. Breakfast & Social Company and John Deere Credit. (Space is limited, 7:30 a.m. Meeting reserve early) • Visit die Trade Show for the latest in Golf Course The Closing Banquet will be held at the Intercontinental SILENT AUCTION products and services and Toronto Centre Hotel on Tuesday January 11th. This The Silent Auction has become a CGSA tradition that is meet with industry event Is sponsored by Jacobsen, a Textron Company. enjoyed by item donors and auction bidders alike. The colleagues 7th Annual CGSA Silent Auction promises to be a great • Participate in die 7th opportunity to see what's new, have some fun, and pick annual Silent Auction and up some great bargains for you and your course. save money on your golf Proceeds go to the Superintendents Educational and course needs Professional Development Fund. The New Organics - This is not your Father's Manure by David Sim To many turf professionals the words “organic fertilizer” actual nutrient needs of the turf plants. These matched don’t mean much in their day-to-day operations. Ours is an parameters mean the plants have the opportunity to more industry that has seen great technological leaps in the last fully utilize the nutrient and less is lost to leaching and 60 years and organics have fallen by the wayside in favour volatilization. Meal based fertilizers are also more fully of cheaper and more complete nutrient delivery methods. decomposed. They reduce in weight by over 99%, which Let’s face it, organics have been used, (in their simplest means it presents no risk of enhancing any black layer form) for several thousand years and the basic composition build-up. hasn’t changed one bit. In fact many of the organic The new organics take advantage of the best attributes of fertilizers available today are derived from the same urea and protein based fertilizers by combining them. A sources the very first farmers utilized. So in an industry 50/50 blend of urea and protein based products provides where the latest technology guides our watering, monitors users with the faster response of urea and the longer our weather, and keeps our records, is there any room for lasting release of meal based products. This reduces the such antiquated tools as organic fertilizer? Well take a fresh frequency of traditional organic applications while still look, because today’s organics are not your father’s reaping the long-term benefits. In a 12-2-12 blood, bone, manure. feather meal product, for instance virtually 100% of the Most turf professionals divide fertilizer into two types, weight is beneficial to the plant and soil. By eliminating the synthetic and organic. However, if you look at their source manure or sludge carriers, in favour of methylene and elements all fertilizers can be divided into two different synthetic urea these fertilizers also eliminate the categories, urea based and protein based. This is where the approxiamte 10% ash content that goes with them thus new organics differ so completely from the old. removing the potential for black layer. The benefits, Since the dawn of agriculture the farmer has used however, don’t stop there. fertilizer to give back to the soil what his plant takes away. Beyond simply feeding the turfgrass plant these new And in all that time probably every conceivable source of fertilizers have some other substantial benefits. Animal nutrients has been sampled. If it grew, flew, walked, meal products provide the amino acids and carbohydrates hopped, crawled, slithered or messed the bottom of your needed to feed microbes in the soil, which facilitate the shoes, somebody undoubtedly tried it as fertilizer. decomposition of the other nutrients, suppress disease­ Obviously the most popular fertilizer worldwide was, and causing organisms and create a favourable environment to still is, composted animal manure or sludge. These help break down thatch. They have extremely low soluble composts contain organically derived urea. While other salt contents, which eases concerns of burning fine turf. forms of urea are fairly quick to release, manure and Some are specially formulated to dissolve easily upon sludge based urea is chemically bound and must be further contact with water, reducing mower pick-up and “sticking” decomposed to release nutrients. This breakdown occurs to mower parts. There are manufacturers that add humic through hydrolysis and microbial decomposition. acid and kelp meal extracts, to reduce plant stress and As manure and sludge based products decompose and increase soil Cation Exchange Capacity. These release nutrients they reduce in volume by about 90%. This components are beneficial to all soil types and are means they leave behind roughly 10% of their weight as a especially effective on low CEC, high sand mixes. A few deposit of inert organic material. This inert material, or industry-leading producers even add biological inoculums ash, provides no benefit to plants but if worked into a clay known to have disease suppression activity. soil can, over time, serve to soften the clay. However in Organic fertilizers have changed more in the last fifteen sandy soils this inert material forms a black layer, which can years than in the entire preceding history of turf. By hinder drainage, and components that are not fully combining the things our fore-fathers knew with the things decomposed provide a breeding ground for plant disease. modern science has taught us, the new organic fertilizers Manure and sludge based organics also have a component can not only feed your turf, but also feed your soil, and of free soluble ammoniac nitrogen that, once broken turn increasing public scrutiny into positive response. down, is subject to leaching and volatilization. Protein based fertilizers, which are a central component David Sim holds an Honours Bachelor of Outdoor Recreation of the new organics are considerably different. Protein (HBOR), and a BA in English Literature from Lakehead based fertilizers, derived primarily from plant and animal University. He has worked in the turf industry for the last 18 years. meals and have an almost insignificant ammoniac He is a certified greenskeeper and horticulturist and has taught component, are typically slow to release nutrients, and are greenskeeper apprentices with Sir Sanford Fleming College for not water-soluble. They require biological activity to the last 11 years. He is a certified golf irrigation auditor decompose before the nutrients are available to plants. (Irrigation Association) and works for AllTurf Ltd. as a Because decomposition is a function of soil temperature representative covering irrigation products in Eastern Ontario. and moisture, which are the parameters that affect plant As if that were not enough he is also a happily married father of growth, the release characteristics more closely track the two boys living in Mt. Albert, Ontario. "A Pox On Your Fairways" The Toronto Golf Club vs. Her Earthworms by David Kuypers, Assistant Property Manager The Problem Earthworm castings have been an increasing problem at The Toronto Golf Club over the past fifteen years. This phenomenon has been widely attributed to the fact that long residual chemicals that impact earthworms, like chlordane or benomyl, are no longer in use (Backman 2002). During the early spring and late fall castings occur when earthworms ingest soil and leaf tissue to consume nutrients then deposit the casts as mounds of soil at the entrance to their burrows. These castings left by overnight earthworm activity are an aesthetic and management problem, as well as a negative impact on the playability of the fairways. The affected fairways would be covered in castings which would be smeared if the fairway was mowed while still reduced to the point where the morning mowing was not wet. The fairways would have to be skipped until it had disrupted. Topdressing at a reduced depth of 0.25” was dried, then dragged and then mowed. This process relied repeated again in May, after spring aerification. However, on weather conditions conducive to the drying of the there was no topdressing applied following aerification in castings and would increase the need to grind the reels on July. This fall the worm castings were back in a significant fairway mowers that were always mowing through the dried number. The fact that topdressing was not done on fairways castings. During the summer the earthworms would migrate in July following aerification may have opened channels deeper in the soil, due to more favourable moisture content through the relatively shallow topdressing layer for the and soil temperature, and would cease to be a problem worms to return. The topdressing was repeated at the heavy (Backman 2002). Being a beneficial inhabitant of the soil, rate this November. there is no chemical control available to discourage earthworm activity, so another solution was required to “discourage” the earthworms from inhabiting the fairway during the cool-wet weather of spring and fall. The Research An analysis of the research conducted by the USGA confirmed the problem. Conditions that are favourable for healthy turf are also optimal for earthworm activity (Williamson 2003). The intent of the research was to find some aspect of the soil that could be exploited to make the root zone of the fairway less inviting to earthworms. The USGA conducted experiments with different levels of soil pH, which had no impact on earthworm activity, as well as an Was it, therefore, the heavy topdressing last November experiment to reduce soil organic matter by removing that reduced earthworm activity in the spring? Again, the clippings and using hollow-core aeration. Again, no impact evidence suggests the topdressing had an impact. The 12th on earthworm activity was noticed. The only treatment that fairway had a large earthworm population last fall and it was reduced earthworm activity was topdressing with sand; the topdressed at twice the rate of the 11th fairway, which runs more sand the more reduction in activity (Backman 2002). parallel. Now, the 12th is almost free from worm castings Empirical evidence seemed to contradict this on the golf while the 11th is heavily populated. Seemingly, more sand in course, as castings in bunkers, which had an angular sand, the upper rootzone is less favourable than less sand. Or was were also a problem. However, topdressing fairways seemed there another biotic factor that reduced the activity of the to be the only option, the theory being that an angular earthworms this spring? We are awaiting next spring to topdressing sand would be an abrasive substance against the determine if the “worm has turned” again in favour of The sensitive cuticle of the earthworms and they would move to Toronto Golf Club. a more hospitable soil environment, like the rough, or Lakeview Golf Course, across the street. References The Application 1. Backman, P.A., et al. “Worming Your Way Out of a Turf Situation” The process began November 2003, after fall aerification. U.S.G.A. Green Section Record—July/August 2002. Armed with a Turfco CR10 material handler and 200 tons of angular sand all the fairways were topdresed with 0.5-0.75” of 2. Williamson, R Chris., et al. “Innovative Management ofEarthworm sand. The sand was brushed in and fairways were mowed to Casting on Golf Course Turf. " U.S.G.A. Green Section Record— remove any chip too large to be brushed in. The results this September/October 2003. spring were excellent, worm castings were dramatically Super & Pro Save Golfer's Life Submitted by Rob Sloan, Superintendent Cardinal Golf Club At Cardinal Golf Club, as at most courses throughout the country, our most pressing daily issues usually revolve around, pace of play, green speeds and a host of other problems, that we often see as larger than life. For at least one day in mid September all of that changed. For two Cardinal employees in particular things changed forever. Trevor Clark, Cardinal’s West Course Super­ intendent was going about his daily routine when he looked back from the 9^ green and saw a golfer down. Trevor immediately went to the man’s aid and found him to have no vital signs. Trevor used his two way radio to call the Pro Shop for assistance. 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After careful deliberation and fellow colleagues in the associate singles match against your colleague comments from both sides it was sector (that doesn’t include you, from the other country. Each format determined that Brian Rosenburg Kevin Falls) of this magazine step up is worth 1 point to go to the final tally. would compete for the Americans. and start sending us articles on their The remaining 12 members of your Brian, did you have a choice in experiences on the road, or respective team compete in a singles the matter? Apparently you went otherwise, I am going to continue to match over 18 holes. For these willingly? As it turned out, Brian went entertain myself and the readers, singles matches there is 1 point on to beat his good friend and true hopefully, on my exploits as a sand awarded for each nine holes and 1 Canadian, Duncan Brewer 3-0. (1 salesperson “on the road” across the point for the overall score. There is a point for the front nine, 1 point for country. possible 3 points that 1 player can the back nine and 1 point for the On October 18th, the Mississaugua receive in any given match. total). The final result of the 4^ Fall Golf & Country Club hosted the 4th Remember this point system because Classic: USA (Western New York) 29 Annual Fall Classic Event. This event it is important when I tell you the - Canada (WOGSA) 26. brings together members of the final result. Congratulations to the USA team Western Ontario Golf Super­ When the team from the United captained by Scott Dodson. We look intendents Association and the States arrived in style aboard a coach forward to winning the cup back next Western New York Golf Super­ we, the WOGSA team, felt that we year when we are back at a golf intendents Association in a Ryder were certainly going to have a course in the United States. Cup format. The weather was great, challenge on our hands. “They came for a third Monday in October, with prepared to recapture the cup”, was a Honourable mentions: the temperature seasonal and the comment from our president, John Early morning navigational problems sun shining with a little breeze. The Taylor. I think he actually said, “Wow, on Circled Way, Saskatoon, golf course was in excellent look at the size of that bus? “ Saskatchewan. Thanks to Ron Craig condition, thanks to the efforts of The really interesting thing about and Nigel Rennie for that one!!!! Bob Brewster and Colin White who the result of the previous 3 Fall happened to bear the weight of me Classics is that no team has been able OAC 85A reunion up at the Rock being his partner in this competition. to win on their home soil. Golf Club. Thanks to former OGSA The format is quite simple: 24 Unfortunately, the 4th fall classic as it president, Ian Bowen for your members from each team compete turned out was going to be no hospitality. with a partner or on their own different. When the American team Use Ball Mark Repair Graphic to Educate Golfers For a golf course superintendent, no message bears repeating more than the need for golfers to repair ball marks. To help superintendents convey this message, the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America (GCSAA) has available a graphic drawing that shows how to repair a ball mark in four steps. The graphic, available online in the Resources section of www.gcsaa.org, can be enlarged and made into a poster for locker rooms or pro shops, or it can be reduced to scorecard size and combined with etiquette information specific to your facility. Working with a printer, superintendents can create information that can be distributed along with scorecards at check-in areas or the first tee. You also may want to consider positioning the graphic, along with text on proper golf course etiquette, in facility newsletters. Superintendents can extend the use of the graphic beyond their courses by providing the graphic to local newspapers and regional golf publications. It could also be used as the basis for pitching a story to television and radio reporters. For more information, contact Jeff Bollig, director of communication, at (800) 472-7878, ext. 4430 or jbollig@gcsaa.org. What's new Member Dues OGSA/CGSA Joint Conference Invoices for membership dues were mailed to our Do not mail registration forms into the CGSA members the first week of September. Payment is due after December 10, 2004. On site registration October 31st. If for some reason you did not receive your will be available. invoice, please contact the office asap. PESTICIDE LICENCES Don't Miss Out If you have not sent yours in yet for Classes AA active, A, B Let the office know that you want to receive your OGSA 8c C, please do so now. We require a copy of your current news by email. If you are still receiving hard copy mail you pesticide licence for our records. are not getting ALL THE NEWS. TURF TIPS Got a Turf Tip? Email it in to the office and we will post it on the web site. Our website www.golfsupers.on.ca is a powerful vehicle of communication with our members and the golf industry. Help us to keep the web site current Syngenta's Greenpartners Program and active. We appreciate your input. Golf Superintendents who are members of the GreenPartners program can now donate their points to the OGSA, for the good of the Association in helping to meet it’s critical needs. As an addded OGSA WEB SITE benefit, donations from superintendents to the Our Members Only Section of the website is very active. OGSA will be matched by Syngenta. If you are You can only access this site with a valid email address and currently a GreenPartners member, please log on to a password. If you have not been able to get into the site, www.greenpartnersonline.ca to register. it is possibly because you have not notified us of your email address and given us a password you would like to use. The OGSA would like to thank Jim Moore of Puslinch Call us and we will set you up with the information you Lakes Golf Club for donating his accumulated Green need. 1-877-824-6472 Partner Points to our association. Planning on building or renovating a Do you want to have a voice in your golf course? association? The American Society of Golf Course Architects has Attend the Annual General Meeting onTuesday, January developed a new brochure, “The Golf Course 11th at 7:00 a.m. in room 206D at the Metro Toronto Remodeling Process - Questions & Answers”, available Convention Centre. without charge to anyone interested in the planning process. As technology, the economy and player All members are welcome to voice their opinion and ask expectations continue to impact golf course design, superintendents and others are exploring remodeling questions, although only the following members are more often. To obtain your complimentary copy contact eligible to vote in the election for the positions on the the ASGCA by mail at 125 N Executive Dr., Suite 106, Board of Directors: Class AA Active, Class A and Class B. Brookfield, Wis. 53005 or by email at info@asgca.org or by phone: (262)786-5960 ASGCA also offers its nationally recognized Remodeling University program. For information on the program (Remodeling 101). For information or to schedule a symposium call ASGCA Headquarters (262) 786-5960. For more information on ASGCA visit their web site www.asgca.org. Off the fairway Responsible Stewardship he agri-food industry is big T What would define a responsible steward, a good business, driven by beef, dairy and neighbour, who fits the bill in helping in the development crops. Horticulture doesn’t have of a rural community? In Elora, we recently were given a much clout in the industry but is race track with slot machines attached, a non-traditional affected by and benefits from the use of the countryside, but a new economic use to be sure. fallout of mass production. It is up to That’s a bit of a stretch to get on my list of good by Daisy Moore the horticultural industry - and this neighbours but there are those who would disagree. I includes golf - to make the best of the rest of the available thought about how a golf course has the credentials to land. This means being responsible stewards. create a positive impact on the community it surrounds. The Ontario Institute of Agrologists (OIA) is an There is a lot of work yet to be done to build and sustain organization of professionals in agriculture working to a positive response to the golf course environment. Being establish the highest standards for the agri-food industry, a responsible steward of the land and being a good and it sponsors events to bring together ideas across the neighbour are at the heart of it. industry. Recently, I attended an OIA seminar entitled “Globalization and Rural Development”. The presenter was a sociologist from the University of Toronto and the audience was comprised of large and small scale farmers, As a reminder, the Horticulture Program during the bankers, marketing and corporate representatives, CGSA/OGSA conference will take place on January 11, students of agriculture and a horticulturist. The speaker 2005 9:00am-4:15pm. It will be of interest to golf course chronicled the horrific effects of corporate globalization gardeners, garden committee members and anyone on rural communities. The decline of the family farm interested in horticultural topics. Here is a preview of the began in the 1970s and rural communities continue to topics: suffer on all fronts. She painted a pretty bleak picture of our world but she offered up organic farming as the Twiners, Stickers, Clingers and Hookers saviour of rural heritage in the midst of all the gloom. - Chris Graham, Britalli Gardens A line was soon drawn between the sociologist and the Herbs in the Ornamental Shrubs on the Golf Course rest of the room and that line got progressively thicker as - Koidu Sulev, Richter’s Herbs the presentation continued. By the end of it there wasn’t Using and Maintaing Shrubs on the Golf Course a person in the room who hadn’t formed some pretty - Sue Clarke, Niagara Parks School of Horticulture strong opinions, having been annoyed or offended in Ornamental Grasses and Perennials in Public Spaces some way. The result was a rather lively discussion as -Janet Anderson, JEA Perennials people flew to the defence of everything they stood for. Native Plant Gardening What I learned from the presentation was that organic - Charles Kinsley, Ontario Native Plant Company farming is an excellent example of a successful new Gardening on the Golf Course enterprise, born from the need for an alternative. Organic - Daisy Moore, Daisy Moore on Gardening farming is also a way of life that is built on the idea of Tips from Golf Course Horticulturalists stewardship of the land and stewardship of the from Juanita Baxter from Rosedale and Chris community. The idea is that rural communities need Troubridge from Weston resources, money, employment and people, and so people are encouraged to buy locally, grow locally, engage in Registration for the Horticulture Program includes lunch recreation locally, and so on. To bring in money, though, on Tuesday as well as access to the trade show on that day. the countryside itself is now seen as a commodity, and Visit my website www.daisymoore.com for more tips on there are marvelous opportunities for those with an gardening. entrepreneurial spirit. Turf or consequences by Doug Breen, Superintendent Golf North ast night I went to my son Walker’s “goal setting” meeting. For those of you not currently involved in the Ontario elementary school system, that is what they call “meet the teacher” or “parent - teacher interview” sessions now. It’s an interesting play on words. When I was in grade 2, they were called “meet the teacher” nights. The idea was that the teacher, was being interviewed by their division of Chrysler named Reliant... need I say more?) employer, the parent. The conversation went something “New paint”= recent car accident. “After market like this. “Mr. and Mrs. Breen, your son Doug seems like modifications’= street raced. a happy little guy, but he’s a dullard, can’t read, and he’d best prepare for a lifelong career as a septic tank sucker.” Every year, more and more advertising lands on my Then my dad would say something like, “My taxes pay your desk, and some of it is just as bad. Mathematically salary, I know he’s a moron, but teach him to read even if speaking, “33% more” can mean at least a half dozen you have to beat him.”. different things, (weight, volume, coverage, active ingredient...). A “Budget- saver shovel” has a balsa wood By the time I was in high school, they were called handle. “As is”= doesn’t work very well. “New and “parent - teacher interviews”, the insinuation being that improved” is likely just new, “labour savers” never save some of the responsibility for my inability to read was my labour, and if someone tells you “you can’t live without parents’ fault. “Mr. and Mrs. Breen, your son is a dullard it”... yes you can. and we have to work together on this.” My dad helped out by getting me a job with a local septic sucking service. I’ve been tricked into buying a few white elephants and Edsels in my day, and the best advice I ever got, whether in But now, they’re called “goal setting sessions” and your education or consumerism, is that nothing worth doing is kid’s academic shortcomings are 100 % your fault. The easy, nothing good is free, and if a deal seems to good to teacher abandons all responsibility and says, “Mr. Breen, be true... it is. your son often comes to school with no pants on, what are you going to do about it?” Then, unless you say, “I’ll make Now I have to go help Walker with his homework so I a commitment (in writing) to be sure the boy isn’t naked don’t get a detention. when he leaves the house”, they keep you after class and make you write out lines. I figured that between his teacher and a steady diet of SpongeBob squarepants, he’d be Billy Shakespeare by now, but apparently it’s all up to me. I’m always amazed by the subtleties of the English language. You change the name of a familiar bi-annual event like “meet the teacher” night, and there is a complete power shift in whose responsibility it is to educate an entire generation. Real Estate Agents are great at this linguistic manipulation. “Cozy basement apartment”, means a dank pit with tiny rooms, low ceilings and no windows. “Handyman’s dream”= rundown shack. “Historic”= old. “Vibrant nightlife” means living between a crack house and a brothel. “Close to transit lines” leads to a dozen kids trashing your yard every 15 minutes while they wait at the bus stop conveniently located on your front lawn. Used car ads are even better. “Clean” means that no one actually left a rotting deer carcass in the back seat. “Reliable”= very, very ugly. (K-cars were actually built by a Looking back 10 YEARS AGO TO-DAY by Barry Endicott 1994 Board of Directors: Bruce Burger (president), Bill Bowen, superintendent at Dalewood Golf Club, passed Lakeview, John Taylor (vice), Twenty Valley, David Gourlay away from an apparent heart attack, in his sleep, at the age of (past), Club Summerlea, Simon George (sec.), Oakville, Alex 61. Dr. Jack Eggens is taking early retirement and Sam LaBelle (tres.), Carlton Golf Club, Doug Suter (editor), DePinto retired from Beverley Golf and Country Club. Credit Valley, Rick Serrao, Glendale, Ken Nelson, Sutton The Spring Field Day was held at the Cutten Club on May Creek, Ian Bowen, Oshawa, Paul Dodson, Aurora Highlands, 30th hosted by Richard Creed. Thom Charters and Bruce Jerry Richard, Craigowen and Mark Schneider, Owen Sound. Burger were tied for low gross with a 73 and John Taylor was New Members: Patrick Simms, Thornhill CC (F); David low net. deHaan, M K Rittebhouse & Sons (E); Caleb Howald, Ariss The Superintendent Pro Tournament was held at Victoria Valley G C (B); Gord Dol, Dol Turf Restoration (E); Craig Park on Sept 6th hosted by David DeCorso. All proceeds were Mortimer, Cedar Brae GC (F); Donna Harrison, Garden City donated to the Canadian Diabetics Society, in memory of Bill Municipal GC (B); Claudio Vona, Castlemore GC (F); Gary Bowen. Allen, Westminister Trails GC (F); Bruce Paterson, Angus The OTRF Golf Tournament was held at Cherry Downs, Glen GC (F); Eric Williamson, Angus Glen GC (F); Ernie hosted by David Cherry. 82 golfers participated, with Ernie Amsler, Angus Glen GC (B); Mike Ettles, The Toronto Hunt Hauser winning low gross with a 69 and John Cherry coming (F); Tim Schaly, Muskoka Lakes (F). in second with a 71. Thom Charters was low net (69) and On the move: Alex Labelle moved from the Carleton Golf Bob Heron second low net (71). Andrew Keffer and Doug and Yacht Club to Merryhill Golf Club, near Kitchener. Cherry were the best ball team winners. Warren Vout left Cedarbrae and went to Brampton Golf Club, The Alex McClumpha Golf Tournament was held on Oct. where Blake McMaster has become GM, after years of being 3rd, at Thornhill Golf and Country Club, hosted by Keith the superintendent. Steve Hallard took over at Cedarbrae. Bartlett. It was the 50th anniversary with everybody receiving Ken Graham was the new superintendent at Huntington, and a nice watch commemorating the event. Over 100 attended Alex McLeod went from Hockley Valley to Spring Lakes. Jim this shotgun. The winner of the George Darou Trophy for Molenhuis left Lionhead to work at the new Club Link best senior golfer was Roy French, of Sturgeon Point Golf Course, Lake Joseph. Jimmy Sara left Trafalgar and took on Club. Other winners were Gord Sommerville 1st net 72 from the position at Carlyle. Dave Schmelefske left Merryhill and Oshawa Airport GC and Robbie Robinson 1st low gross 72, joined Ontario Seed Company, and Everett Nieuwkoop from Hidden Lakes G C. joined McCracken Golf Supplies. Article Reprinted from Summer 1994 Issue of Green is Beautiful Head Wrench Speaks Out by Ray Joyce - Turf Equipment Manager, St. George’s Golf and Country Club A different bedtime story What animals? Since I didn’t mention the crew in my After arriving home, after one more twelve-hour day, my story, I was perplexed. I asked for an explanation. “The five year old daughter, Jennifer asked me where I worked. animals in the barn”, she replied. And there it was, the Instead of a bedtime story, I took the opportunity to explain. term used by members and old-time staff. ‘The barn’, the I proudly told Jennifer of St. George’s and its rich history term that gets my back up. I demanded to know where she with ties to the Canadian Pacific Railway, the Royal York had heard this. Realizing she was on unsure ground, the Hotel, the great golf architect Stanley Thompson, and the response was cautious. “Well, tonight after supper, mommy castle-like (she would think so) clubhouse. I reflected back tried to call you at work to find out what time you would be 24 years to a time as a student when I worked part-time as a home. Some lady answered and said she was sure that no delivery driver for a party goods rental company. Then, I one was still in the barn at that time of day and mommy would drop off chairs, tables and linens to all the golf clubs should try again tomorrow.” in the west end. I told her of the 25 foot Christmas tree I After kissing Jennifer goodnight and promising to take saw one year in the rotunda of St. Georges, and of the visual her to work one day, I went to the living room and started impact of the clubhouse in the snow with its festive lights the notes for this article. twinkling. To be sure, there is, at least at this writing, a barn on the Finally, after memories faded, I got back to present day property of St. Georges. It has some local history and served and went on to explain my duties as Turf Equipment as a repair facility and machinery shed during a more simple Manager at ‘one of Canada’s top five golf courses’. Never time in the club’s past. A time of gang mowers and tractors one to easily fall asleep, I asked her if I had answered her and, yes, Canadian Opens. But for the past six years, the question, the wide-awake Jennifer said, "Yes, daddy . . . but, nearly one million dollar turf equipment inventory has what about the animals?” been housed in a modern, although cramped, storage and Head Wrench Speaks Out continued... repair facility. their hands’. This image problem exists. It perpetuates. Barn indeed. The image conjured up is one of And it needs to be addressed by all parties concerned. How unprofessional people doing unprofessional work. I take many times have unfamiliar people come into our repair fierce pride in what I do because in our field we produce facilities, asked to speak to the superintendent, then left more with less. It is simple to solve problems by throwing without a word? How many telephone messages have you money around. You want proof? Look at how most diligently taken by these same individuals, but you can’t put clubhouse operations work. Got a broken window, call the a face to the name? glass people. Broken vacuum, get the yellow pages. As long as I live, I will never forget the day I met our new Although a broken shaft on a $1,200 hydraulic pump from General Manager. Chauffeured to the shop on a freshly a $30,000 fairway mower is a $250 part purchase, the polished golf cart, the superintendent stopped dead center downtime in fixing this is the same as if I had bought a new of the open bay door and announced, “Mr. Murphy, this is pump in the first place. Why bother? Because of the our new equipment lift”. “Very nice”, was the reply. “And routine 10 to 12 hour days, pride and professionalism. who is the fellow working under the raised machine?” “He’s Image problem due to myth. The myth is that turf our mechanic”, was the answer. “Does the mechanic have a equipment mechanics do not dabble in their chosen venue. name?” prompted the GM. After a very hurried The government has decided that golf course equipment introduction he said it had been a pleasure meeting me, to repair is a separate field and, therefore, a licensable which I replied that it is a pleasure to meet anyone. In profession. A single piece of paper is not going to reverse conclusion, people of the wrench, remember the first step years of ingrained thinking that mechanics are slow-witted in an image upgrade is a good old-fashioned barn burning. cousins who didn’t do well in school, but ‘were good with It is long overdue. May the quiet joys of this Holiday Season Surround you and yours with the promise of Peace. From the directors and staff at OGSA GREEN UP YOUR WINTER! 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