FGCSA Executive Council for 1999-2000 (1-r): Geoff Coggan, CGCS, Secretary/Treasurer; Cary Lewis, CGCS,
Vice President; Darren Davis, President; Mike Perham, CGCS, Past President

UPCOMING EVENTS

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Sept. 9

South Florida chapter
meeting, Biltmore

Sept. 13 Blue Pearl Tournament,
Medalist GC, Hobe Sound
Sept. 15 Palm Beach chapter meeting
Polo Trace GC

Sept. 21

GCSAA Regional Seminar,
"Human Resource Management," Dr. Bree Hayes,
Crown Plaza, Orlando

Oct. 2

FGCSA Golf Championship
Southern Dunes GC

Oct. 8

SFGCSA Tournament for
Missing & Exploited Children,
Colony West GC

Sept. 16 North Florida chapter
meeting, Marsh Creek
Sept. 20

West Coast GCSA chapter
meeting, Hunters Green CC

Oct. 11

Bud Quandt Tournament,
Pasadena Y&CC

Sept. 21

Suncoast chapter meeting,
Riverwood CC

Oct. 12

North Florida chapter meeting,
Grand Haven GC, Jax

Oct. 21

South Florida GCSA golf
outing, Melreese GC

Sept. 24 Everglades GCSA meeting,
Collier's Reserve GC

Oct. 21

PBGCSAyTCGCSA Joint
Meeting, Jupiter Island Club,
Speaker: John Foy, USGA,
"Ultradwarf Bermudagrass"

Oct. 26

Suncoast chapter meeting,
Meadows CC, Pro/Supt.

Nov. 4

NFGCSA/GCSAA Regional
Seminar, "Integrated Disease
Management for Bermudagrass Golf Courses, "
Dr. Monica Elliott, Holiday
Inn, Jacksonville

Nov. 15

Treasure Coast chapter
meeting, The Moorings Club

Nov. 16

Joint chapter meeting Suncoast and Calusa GCSA,
Boca Royale

President's Me? ¿e

Pres' tent's Message
by D- rren Davis, CGCS
"The < .en Sheet? But it's not green!"
Have you ever wondered why the FGCSA
produces "The Green Sheet"? Or where
and how the publication was started? Well,
maybe it's just me, but I have. So for my
first President's Message in the Green
Sheet, I thought I would give you some
background information on this useful publication.

assist in this situation. Tom also felt that
the bimonthly Green Sheet, would provide
a more timely mechanism to report the current events of the local chapters than the
FGCSA magazine, the Florida Green,
which is produced quarterly. Over the
years the Green Sheet has also provided a
calendar of events, which has helped the
local chapters to keep important events and
meetings spread out to encourage participation between chapters.

For the first three years (1984-1987) the
Green Sheet was an 8-page newsletter
printed on green paper, hence the title. It
The Green Sheet is a bimonthly publica- was later changed to white paper so that
tion that provides FGCSA members up to the photos could be better viewed. The first
date information on recent FGCSA Board editor of the Green Sheet was Mike Bailey,
of Directors meetings, providing a detailed a long time pillar of the FGCSA, who
account of the minutes, as well as events served as editor until September of 1992
occurring around the State sponsored by when Tom Benefield took the reigns. In
the FGCSA or one of it's local affiliate August of 1994, then FGCSA President,
Darren Davis
Greg Plotner, took charge as Editor and
chapters.
remained in that capacity until current Edi- selling advertising space. Vigoro remained
Tom Burrows is the founder of the Green tor Joel Jackson took the publication un- the sole sponsor until 1992 when Golf VenSheet initiating the publication in late 1984 der his wings in 1997.
tures adopted the Green Sheet and has sponwhile he was serving as President of the
sored the publication's cost ever since.
FGCSA. Tom's main objective was to pro- In the early days the Green Sheet had mulvide a format for the local chapters of the tiple sponsors for each issue but in 1985 The Green Sheet will be most useful if inFGCSA to communicate with each other. Vigoro signed a yearly contract with the put is provided by all of the local chapters.
He felt that at the time there was not enough FGCSA to be the sole sponsor. This was I urge each and every one of you to provide
of that type of information being shared beneficial to the FGCSA and Marie Rob- Marie Roberts (1 800-732-6053) or Joel
among the chapters and the Green Sheet erts, who had numerous tasks other than Jackson (1 407 248-1971) with information
about your chapters events. It can be as
simple as the date and time or a planned
meeting or as complex as a full-blown account of one of your events.

GREEN SHEETS

Editor:
Joel Jackson, CGCS
(407) 248-1971 (fax/phone)
e-mail: FLGrn@aol.com
News Coordinator:
Mrs. Marie Roberts
1760 NW Pine Lake Drive
Stuart, FL 34994
(561) 692-9349
(561) 692-9654 (fax)
(800) 732-6053 (Florida Wats)
e-mail: fgcsa@tcol.net
The Green Sheet is a bimonthly FGCSA
newsletter printed as follows: Jan/Feb,
March/April, May/June, July/August,
Sept/October, November/December.
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Financial Support:
This issue of the Green Sheet is
being sponsored by:
Golf Ventures
2101 E Edgewood Drive
Lakeland, FL 33803
800-330-8874
800-481-8911 (Fort Myers office)
888-222-7072 (Jupiter office)
All material submitted for printing will
be edited at the discretion of the editor.
Material must be typed or clearly
printed. Photos are encouraged. Items
must be for the good of the association.
Deadline next issue: October 15.

I feel that you can never over communicate
but you can certainly under communicate
and lack of communication quite often leads
to confusion and controversy. I hope you
will make use of this important, useful tool
that will benefit all FGCSA members.

FGCSA Golf Championship
Now is the time for all chapter's to register their team for the 1999 FGCSA Golf
Championship at Southern Dunes GC on
Saturday, October 2nd. Play begins with
a noon buffet followed by a 1:00 p.m.
shotgun start. Teams will consist of 5
players with best 4 out of 5 counting. Individual superintendent entries will also
be accepted. Call the FGCSA office at
1-800-732-6053 for a registration form.
The Green Sheet

Director of Communications Report

What's Up D.O.C.?
by Joel Jackson
1. Government Relations
A. Over 70 U.S. representatives have
joined Florida's Alan Boyd to co-sponsor
H.R. 1592 The Regulatory Fairness and
Openness Act of 1999 calling for EPA to
base pesticide decisions on facts and good
science. The August 3rd deadline passed
with EPA banning two organophosphates
and environmental groups have responded
by suing the EPA saying they are moving
too slow and not doing enough.
B. Generated several dozen FQPA letters
for signature on letterhead stationery.
Thanks to those who participated and
shared their responses from their representatives.
C. The Ag Institute will have a Meet the
Legislators gathering in Tallahassee in late
October. More information to follow next
month.
2. Allied Associations
A. The FTGA Conference and Show was
a success. That is, it was successful for
those who took advantage of the opportunity. Comments from fellow superintendents were very positive about the venue,
the content and the atmosphere. Vendors,
of course, were not pleased with the small
showing of support by superintendents and
members of the other turf industries. People
who work hard to put on these educational
events want to know why you didn't show
up?
I moderated three different sessions. We
had a great attendance for the Ultradwarf
and Labor panel discussions during the
concurrent sessions on Wednesday. We
also had a good turnout for Tommy Witt's
Etonic seminar on Communications early
Tuesday morning. Only 50% of those registered came to the Thursday Etonic seminar, and I'll take credit for booking that one
on the last day. Live and learn. It was a
good presentation, but I guess the timing
was bad. The only negative I had was the
early start for the sessions. 7:00 and 7:25
am was a bit early when you're on the road.
September/October 1999

Reports from the other education moderators was that their attendance was good as
well. The Corn Boil, Awards Dinner and
golf tournament all were very good and
well attended, even though there was room
for more.
Also congratulations to the FTGA for the
new FloraDwarf brochure. The brochure
is being sent to golf course architects and
builders and sod growers to give them the
latest information about this new grass. Did
you know that the FTGA is the licensee
for FloraDwarf and rebates from sales go
to the FTGA?
B. Armed with a revised survey, the Florida
Golf Alliance is polling course owners with
a new shortened golf impact survey.
3. Media Relations
A. Attended an Ag Institute meeting at the
IFAS Lake Alfred station. Learned about a
Natural Resources Leadership Program
that takes rising leaders in the various commodities and puts them through an eight
session experience to broaden their understanding of issues facing Florida agriculture. We might want to send someone to
this next year. However, it does take a commitment of time and you have to do a paper on a problem facing your industry.
B. Sent out news releases on the Coastal
Plains Turf Classic and had a reporter from
the Palm Beach Post request to be put on
the Florida Green mailing list.
C. Sent an article on FGCSA activities to
GCSAA for the September Chapter News
section in Newsline.
4. Chapter Relations
A. Updated database to include the new
external Vice Presidents for several
chapters.They are: Brett Harris, Lake Nona
CC, Central Florida; Ed Neumann, Keystone CC, North Florida; John Van
Vranken, River Wilderness GC, Suncoast;
and Eric Joy, Wentworth GC, West Coast.
B. Served on the 1999 Crowfoot Committee. Record crowd. Way to go!
C. There is a new local chapter in the final
stages of forming. The Calusa Chapter is

located in southern Charlotte and northern
Lee Counties.
D. Dale Kuehner will be presented with the
FGCSA Distinguished Service Award at
the South Florida Missing and Exploited
Children's tournament on October 8th.
5. Publications
A. The following chapters need to be thinking about selecting courses for the Florida
Green cover for the year 2000: Winter issue - Seven Rivers GCSA. We will need
your selection by mid-September. Spring
issue - Treasure Coast GCSA .Summer issue - Central Florida GCSA Fail issue West Coast GCSA. At the present time the
Fall issue will be dedicated to the Renaissance Vinoy Resort with Cary Lewis,
CGCS, which is traditional for the incoming FGCSA President.
B. Please check out the Call for Articles in
the Fall issue of the Florida Green and
think very seriously about writing on the
Hands On topics or for any of the other
sections in the magazine.

Blue Pearl Tournament to be
held at Medalist Golf Club
The Treasure Coast GCSA is pleased to
announce their 6th Annual Blue Pearl
Tournament scheduled for September 13th
at the prestigious Medalist GC in Hobe
Sound. The chapter is thankful to superintendent Tim Rappach, the members of
Medalist GC, and especially to Greg
Norman for the use of the club.
The chapter will again donate funds raised
to the Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary
Program for Schools which informs and
educates our children. These hands-on
programs allow students to get involved
and learn the many benefits of the green
industry and our stance towards enhancing and protecting the environment. The
money will be matched dollar for dollar
by the USGA in a matching grant. Additional funds will be donated to the local
South Foric High School's turf program.
Call Greg Pheneger, TCGCSA President
at 561-231-1700 x 6002 for sponsorship
forms and registration information.
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Minutes of FGCSA Summer Board Meeting
The Summer 1999 meeting of the FGCSA
Board of Directors was called to order by
President Michael Perham, CGCS, at 1:00
p.m. on Saturday, July 31 at Grand Cypress.
All officers and chapters were represented
Other FGCSA members attending the meeting were Joel Jackson - Florida Green editor;
Randy Bushway, Palm Beach chapter; Past
President Mark Jarrell; and John Foy, USGA..
Golf Agronomics donates another $3,000
to the FGCSA Research Fund
President Michael Perham announced that he
had accepted a $3,000 check from Golf
Agronomics as a donation to our FGCSA Research Fund. GASH has donated a total of
$36,000 to the Florida superintendents
through this profit sharing program.
OLD BUSINESS: Michael Perham reported
on the results of the Conference Call between
the four officers and four past presidents of
the FGCSA held last month. The purpose of
the call was to establish a compensation package for Joel Jackson and Marie Roberts that
could be approved by the board and made a
part of our Standard Operating Procedure
Manual. Compensation for both Joel and
Marie was increased and a schedule of fringe
benefits for all employees based on length of
service was presented. It was noted that Gary
Pederson is an Independent Contractor, not
an employee.
Mike indicated a desire by the officers to have
Joel become more involved in pre-production
processes of the magazine which would increase his compensation but not incur any
additional costs to the magazine. This option
allows a years time for Joel to become familiar with these processes that are now being
out-sourced and decide if he would like to
take on these duties to earn additional compensation. Joel indicated that at this time he
would feel "out of his element" but is willing
to look into this option further. After a discussion, Jim Goins made a motion to approve
the Compensation Benefits Package for
FGCSA Employees. Seconded by Craig
Weyandt, the motion was approved and this
page will be added to the SOP Manual.
SECRETARY/TREASURER REPORT Cary Lewis discussed the Financial Statements for the end of the fiscal year 1998-99

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and presented the minutes from the
Spring 1999 board meeting. Both
were approved. End of the Year funds
(including reserves) stand at $292,000
total of all accounts with Florida
Green Fund accounting for $ 138,000;
Research $84,000; and Operating
Fund at $70,000.
BUDGET: Cary then discussed the
worksheet for the 1999-2000 FGCSA
Operating Budget. He went over each
line item including the ones that were
not completed in time for the Spring
meeting. These included an expense
item of $19,000 for Association Manager; $5,000 in income and expense
for education; $8,000 for an Internal
Control Review by our C.P.A.; and
$500 for Government/Public Relations. The Reception was set at an
arbitrary figure of $25,000 income and
$25,000 expense so that, again, no
dues money would be spent. These
additions created a balanced budget at
$114,000. If no other monies are
taken from the Operating Account,
then there would be no need for a dues
increase next year. A question arose
as to the benefit of continuing to support a lobbyist After a discussion it
was decided that we would continue
to share the funding for this with the
FTGA. The FGCSA will also continue to support the Musser Foundation and the GCSAA Platinum Tee
Club. If any chapter would like to help
with funding these projects, they may
make a contribution to the Operating
Fund although the FGCSA will not be
soliciting chapter donations since the
Operating budget is balanced.
Cary suggested that since we are submitting a balanced Operating Fund
budget, local chapters may wish to
contribute their turfgrass fundraising
dollars directly to the FGCSA Research Fund so that we may continue
to support the FTGA with their University of Florida research projects. A
motion was made by GeofFCoggan to
approve the budget at $114,000 and
seconded by David Court. The motion was approved.
D.O.C.: Joel reported on his activi-

ties for the past quarter. He suggested that
our presence is not needed at some of these
associations but there are others that we
should support. He has set a goal for the
next fiscal year to improve the educational
program and increase membership in the
FGCSA. One of the immediate problems
that applies to all local chapters (as well as
many other chapters nationwide) is the lack
of attendance by superintendents at local
meetings with the average being less than
25% support. Several options were discussed — night meetings, afternoon meetings, prepaid meetings, phone calls to members, etc. Joel will work with any chapter
to improve attendance or help organize/improve local educational programs.
PUBLICATIONS: Florida Green. After a year of paying D.O.C. salary and expenses out of the Florida Green account,
the magazine is now at about break even.
It was suggested that a slight increase in
advertising rates would be appropriate since
they have not been raised in ten years and
are considered to be a bargain in the industry. The new rates would take effect with
the Winter 2000 issue. It was also suggested
that we may need to do more advertising
solicitation especially since so many companies are merging with other companies
thus reducing our advertising pool. Joel will
profile Dale Kuehner, Distinguished Service Award winner, and the five Lifetime
Service winners in the next few issues of
the magazine.
Membership Directory: Marie Roberts
reported that advertisers have been solicited for this year's Directory and expects
that most advertisers will continue to support the directory. All chapters were reminded to get their member lists into the
office before the end of the month so that
the directory will be as accurate as possible.
AWARDS: All plaques for President's
Awards for Lifetime Service were distributed to Externals for presentation at their
local chapter meetings. The DSA will be
presented to Dale Kuehner at the SFGCSA
Tournament for Missing and Abused Children which is hosted by Dale's own club,
Colony West CC.
MEMBERSHIP: Marie Roberts urged
all chapter secretaries to be sure that new
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Minutes of FGCSA Summer Board Meeting

Class A and B members of their chapter
are members of the GCSAA. If they do
not choose to become a member of the
GCSAA, they will not be accepted for
membership in the Florida GCSA. If the
local chapter wants to accept these superintendents as members, they must do a By
Law change to establish a different membership classification - not Class A or B.
They would not pay dues to the FGCSA,
EDUCATION: GeoffCoggan discussed
the report of the Poa seminar. The seminar was a financial success as well as being a very informative and well received
program. It was noted that there were a
large number of no shows contributing to
a good cash flow to the Education line item
with those missing superintendents loosing out on a good program. The next educational program to be put on by the
FGCSA will be the two Etonic Seminars
offered during the FTGA Convention in
Gainesville.

RESEARCH: David Court gave Steve
Pearson's report on the eight projects that
have been approved by the FTGA for funding and urged the FGCSA to contribute to
this research. It was noted that the Palm
Beach chapter has donated $ 15,000 to the
ultradwarf proposal and the Seven Rivers
chapter is committed to the Light Intensity study. Mark Jarrell suggested that
whatever monies we do donate to the
FTGA Research should be without strings
attached. He also reported that new UF
Vice President Martin is working with turf
researchers and noted that superintendents
are becoming the activists in the FTGA
with the addition of Steve Pearson to the
FTGA Board.
He reported that Dr.
Datnoff is studying bermudagrass decline
with some financial support from Zeneca.
If anyone is currently having a problem
with bermudagrass decline and is willing
to have Dr. Datnoff conduct a hands-on
study on a portion of your diseased green,
please call him.

There are 3 GCSAA Regional Seminars
planned for Florida this year. The first was
held last week in the South Florida area
with a turnout of 30 pre-registrations. The
second will be held at the Crowne Plaza
Hotel in Orlando on September 21st and
the third will be on November 4th at the
Holiday Inn in Jacksonville. The FGCSA
will continue to publicize these seminars
through direct mail and the Green Sheet.

The FGCSA has received a $3,000 check
from Palm Beach chapter and a $4,000
check from the Everglades chapter for general research. After a discussion, the
FGCSA officers suggested that the FGCSA
donate an unrestricted gift from our Research Account of $25,000 to the FTGA
General Research Fund. David Court
made the motion, seconded by Jim Goins
and the motion was approved.

CROWFOOT: Joel Jackson reported that
this year's Crowfoot Tournament has an
excellent turnout with 168 players and a
sell out crowd expected for the poolside
banquet at the Grand Cypress Villas.

Darren Davis will make the $25,000 presentation at the FTGA Awards Dinner
Wednesday night in Gainesville. It was
noted that Palm Beach will also be making an additional donation of $5,000.

GOLF: The FGCSA Golf Tournament
will be played at Southern Dimes on the
first Saturday in October (October 2nd).
Host superintendent will be Bayne
Caillavet with each chapter encouraged to
have a five man team, with the top four
players scores counting. Winner of the
event will join Mark Hopkins, low gross at
the Poa ,with the low gross superintendent
at the Crowfoot in the GCSAA Tournament
in Mobile, Alabama in February. A traveling trophy has been purchased for the
Chapter Championship with hope that this
will instill even more competition and enthusiasm for the players at Southern Dimes.

FTGA/IFAS: Mark Jarrell asked for
sponsorship of the breaks at the FTGA
Convention. Three chapters have agreed
to sponsor a break — Treasure Coast, the
Ridge, and West Coast. Jim Goins made
a motion that the FGCSA donate $500 to
the break for the Etonic Seminar. The
motion was approved.

September/October 1999

GCSAA: Mike Perham reminded all
chapters that the next Chapter Delegates
meeting will be held in Lawrence on September 10th-12th. If your chapter is not
sending a representative, you MUST notify the GCSAA in writing that you are se-

lecting someone else as your representative. If a chapter is not represented at two
consecutive annual meetings, the chapter
may lose their affiliation status.
GCSAA Voting Delegate forms have been
sent to all chapter presidents. If your chapter has not specified anyone to vote at the
GCSAA Convention in New Orleans they
are urged to appoint Dale Kuehner as their
Voting Delegate and send the form to
GCSAA.
The current FGCSA and GCSAA Affiliation Forms expire in December. A new
FGCSA form will be distributed to all chapters at the next Board Meeting. It will be
modeled after the revised Affiliation Form
recently distributed to chapters from the
GCSAA.
RECEPTION: Mike Perham reported that
the New Orleans reception will be held on
Friday night, February 18th at the Hilton.
Sponsors will be solicited beginning in
October with sponsorship levels linked with
number of sponsors admitted. The lowest
level will allow only one or two company
representatives while the higher levels will
allow more representatives to attend. Superintendents will again be limited to one
guest in an attempt to keep the reception
for Florida only.
LONG RANGE PLANNING: Darren
Davis and Gary Grigg made a presentation
to enter into an agreement to have a Florida
GCSA web site created at no cost to the
FGCSA. Jared Grigg would create the site
and solicit advertising support from our
affiliates. He would then enter into an
agreement with them. It was noted that
the FGCSA would not be part of this agreement. Discussion was held as to what
would be on the site and how to safeguard
the site. Would there be enough use by
superintendents to support the advertising?
Would it take away from the Membership
Directory advertising? What would be the
tax ramifications? Who would develop the
content? It was decided that Joel Jackson
and Darren Davis would handle the content. It was also suggested that we have
our attorney review any contract we may
sign with Jared's company to be sure that
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Local Superintendent Activities
Continuation of Summer Board Minutes...

that we proceed with contract negotiations
with Jared Grigg regarding a Florida
GCSA web site. Any contract to be signed
would be reviewed by our attorney and any
agreement between Grigg and the sponsors
would not be signed by the FGCSA. The
motion was approved.
John Foy gave a quick recap of putting
green trials and overseeding studies.
Craig Weyandt reported that the Treasure
Coast chapter is considering sponsoring
the brochure for the Audubon Cooperative
Sanctuary for Schools.
Since there was no further business, the
Summer Board Meeting was adjourned at
3:40 p.m.

Condolences
Our sincere condolences go to the
family and friends of Pasi Pussinen,
superintendent at the Fountains GC in
Lake Worth. The 37 year old Palm
Beach member died of a heart attack
on Auuust 22nd.

Two GCSAA Regional
Seminars Planned for Fall

FGCSA Donates $25,000
to Turfgrass Research

The Central Florida chapter is co-sponsoring a GCSAA Regional Seminar on
Tuesday, September 21st at the
Crowne Plaza hotel in Orlando. The
all day seminar will be presented by
popular lecturer, Dr. Bree Hayes,
speaking on Human Resource Management. Topics will include:
•Interviewing, hiring and evaluating
performance based on developing and
implementing appraisal procedures.
•Confronting issues in the workplace and firing decisions
•Identifying and working with challenging employees
•Training strategies for both new
and veteran employees.

Darren Davis, president of the FGCSA, made
a lump-sum donation of $25,000 to the Florida
Turfgrass Association's Research Fund. The
presentation was made during the FTGA's Convention Annual Awards Banquet on Wednesday, August 11 th on the Gainesville campus of
the University of Florida.

The North Florida GCSA is sponsoring Dr. Monica Elliott's return to
Florida with her presentation on "Integrated Disease management for
Bermudagrass Golf Courses" on
Thursday, November 4th at the Holiday Inn in Jacksonville.
For registration information, please
call the GCSAA at 1-800-472-7878.
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The funds donated are a combined effort from
the FGCSA as well as local affiliate chapters Central Florida ($3,000), Everglades ($4,000),
Suncoast ($2,500), Palm Beach ($3,000), and
Ridge ($3,000). This money will be used to
help support the following UF turfgrass projects
recently approved by the Awards Committee:
•Evaluation of UltraDwarf Bermudagrass
Cultural management Practices, by Drs. John
Cisar, George Snyder and Lawrence Datnoff
•Influence of silicon on controlling grey leaf
spot on St. Augustine grass by Drs L. Datnoff,
Russell Nagata and George Snyder.
•Evaluation of Turf Used for Athletic Fields
by Dr. Grady Miller
•Development and Evaluation of a Research
Device for In Situ Evaluation of Turf Shear
Strength by Dr. Grady Miller
•Fate of N During Grow-In of a Golf Course
Fairway Under Different N Management Practices and Irrigation Intensities by Dr. J. B.
Sartain and Jason Kruse
•Breeding Bermuda and Zoysia grasses for
Florida by Drs. Brian Scully, J. Cisar, Al
Dudeck and Bryan Unruh.
•Refining Application Methods for Methyl
Bromide Alternatives by Drs. Bryan Unruh and
Barry Brecke
•Evaluation of Nitrogen Leaching in St.
Augustinegrass lawns by Drs. John Cisar and
George Snyder.
During the same function, Golf Agronomics donated $3,000, Palm Beach chapter donated
$5,000, and Everglades chapter donated $8,000
to the FTGA. The Seven Rivers chapter has
already committed to funding $73,700 to the
University of Florida and the Palm Beach chapter previously donated $15,000 directly to the
University of Florida, Fort Lauderdale..

Mark Jarrell, CGCS, President of the FTGA, accepts a $25,000 check for the
FTGA Research Foundation from Darren Davis, President of the FGCSA.

The Ridge, Treasure Coast and West Coast
chapters along with the FGCSA each sponsored
snacks for the educational events during the
Conference & Show.
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New Chapter Officers

NEWLY ELECTED OFFICERS FOR ALL FGCSA CHAPTERS
CALUSA GCSA
President
Vice President
External V.P.
Sec/Treasurer

Joseph Boe, Coral Oaks CC
John Stach, Olde Hickory G&CC
Mike Mongoven, Fort Myers CC
Greg Laue, Sunnybreeze Palm GC

CENTRAL FLORIDA
President
Vice President
External VP.
Sec/Treasurer

GCSA
John Kopack, Alaqua CC
Scott Welder, Walt Disney World
Brett Harris, Lake Nona
Brian Lentz, DeBary G&CC

COASTAL PLAINS GCSA
President
Mike Echols, Summerbrooke GC
Vice President
Jeff Heggen, Hilaman Park
External VP.
Doug Abbuhl, Seminole GC
Sec/Treasurer
Jeff Heggen, Hilaman Park

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Tom Crawford, Misty Creek CC
John VanVranken, Wilderness GC
Joe Sittinger, The Oaks GC
Andy Burmester, Pelican Point GC

WEST COAST GCSA
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Sec/Treasurer

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Paul Illgen, World Woods of Golf
Bob Marrino, Magnolia Valley
Buddy Keene, Gainesville G&CC
Buddy Keene, Gainesville G&CC
Stuart Bozeman, Seven Rivers G&CC

TREASURE COAST GCSA
President
Greg Pheneger, John's Island Club
Vice President
Bobby Ellis, Indian River Club
External V.P.
Craig Weyandt, Stuart Yacht & CC
Sec/Treasurer
Steve Keller, Moorings Club

PALM BEACH GCSA
President
David Court, Boca Lago CC
Vice President
Randy Bushway, Boca Del Mar GC
External V.P.
David Court, Boca Lago CC
Secretary
Matt Quinn, Boca Rio GC
Treasurer
Peter Powell, Boca Greens CC

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SEVEN RIVERS GCSA
President
Vice President
External V.P.
Secretary
Treasurer

SUNCOAST GCSA
President
Vice President
External V.P.
Secretary
Treasurer

NORTH FLORIDA GCSA
President
Clayton Estes, San Jose CC
Vice President
Ed Neumann, Keystone CC
External V.P.
Ed Neumann, Keystone CC
Sec/Treasurer
Andy Maguire,Marsh Creek

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Steve Ciardullo, Mountain Lake GC
Ray Cuzzone, Bartow Municipal
Roy Wilshire, Grasslands GC
Jeff Brown, Carefree Resort

SOUTH FLORIDA GCSA
President
Jim Walker, Palmetto GC
Vice President
Gilly MacGregor, West View CC
External V.P.
Jim Goins, Hollybrook G&T
Sec/Treasurer
Bryan Singleton, Riviera CC

EVERGLADES GCSA
President
Rick Tatum, Shadow Wood CC
Vice President
Steve Durand, Quail Creek CC
External V.P.
Gary Grigg, Royal Poinciana GC
Secretary
Jim Leiseberg, Pelicans Nest GC
Treasurer
Matt Taylor, Bonita Bay East

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RIDGE GCSA
President
Vice President
External V.P.
Sec/Treasurer

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Chris Leahy (left) and Richard Colyer
(right) of Golf Agronomics Supply and
Handling (GASH) present FGCSA Past
President Mike Perham, CGCS, with a
check for $3,000 for the FGCSA Turf
Research Account at the Summer Board
meeting in Orlando. GASH also made a
matching donation to the FTGA at the
Conference & Show.

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