GREEN SHEr

VOLUME XVII, PART 2, MAY/JUNE 2001
NEWSLETTER OF THE FLORIDA GOLF COURSE SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION

SFWMD Official lays
Down the Law. Left to
Right: Bruce Adams of the
SFWMD discusses the most
pressing topic of the day ~
W A T E R - with Mike
Bailey, Fort Lauderdale CC
and Dr. Phil Busey of UF/
IF AS at the USGA Regional
Conference in West Palm
Beach. See story on pages
4 and 5 of this Green Sheet.

UPCOMING EVENTS
May 5

1 st Annual Histiocytosis
Tournament, Oak Tree CC

May 7

North Florida chapter
meeting, Magnolia Point

May 15 Central Florida chapter
meeting, Orange Co. Nat'l
May 16 PBGCS A chapter meeting,
Broken Sound GC
May 18 FGCSA seminar, "How to
Find and Hire the Best
Employees", Tom Maloney,
Cornell University. Naples
Beach Hotel. 8:00 a.m.

May 22 Suncoast GCSA annual
meeting/election of
officers, Sara Bay CC

June 29 South Florida chapter
meeting, Card Sound GC

May 24 South Florida chapter
meeting, Don Shula's Hotel

July 18 Treasure Coast Annual
Meeting/Election of Officers,
John's Island Club

May 24 Treasure Coast GCSA
Pro/Supt, Hobe Sound GC

July 19 North Florida chapter
meeting, Ocean Hammock

June 2

PBGCS A Future of Golf
Tournament, The Falls CC

Aug.5

June 4

North Florida chapter
meeting, Pablo Creek

Aug 13- FTGA Conference & Show,
15
U of F campus, Gainesville

June 13 PBGCS A chapter meeting,
Addison Reserve CC

May 19 Poa Tournament, Saturday.
June 19 Suncoast chapter meeting,
- 20
G. C. Horn Tournament,
Lemon Bay GC
Sunday. Naples Beach Hotel

Crowfoot Open, Grand
Cypress GC

Sept. 17 Treasure Coast GCSA
Blue Pearl Tournament, The
Medalist Club, Hobe Sound

President's Message

President's Message
by Cary Lewis, CGCS
By now those of us who overseed, are going through the transition process back to
the base Bermudagrass surfaces. Many are
just enjoying the fact that spring means we
are about to get through another season,
with our seasonal golfers heading back up
north. Some are planning the summer
projects or getting close to starting the
never-ending job of renovating our properties.
As most would agree, as Golf Course Superintendents, we are expected to make
continued improvements in the playing surfaces, overall property appeal, and operational efficiencies, while keeping control
of the ever-increasing cost. Each year I've
noticed that the expectations and demands
on our performance increases, not necessary in connection with our budgeted operational funds or available time.
How do we keep pace with this never-ending challenge? I'm convinced that in most
of our hearts the daily challenges of our
great business are to a great degree the driving force behind success. I once read that
some degree of stress is healthy and is the
internal force that drives man to achieve
greater heights. On the other hand, stress

can and will in many cases be harmful to
our health. The balance between positive
stress (motivation) and excessive stress
(anxiety) is one we must understand and
control. The word balance is defined as
an instrument for measuring the weight of
a body, equilibrium, the remainder and/or
mental or emotional stability.
I would like to suggest we think of balance as our ability to manage our time to
best support our family, our health and our
profession. To keep the emotions of our
job in a state of equilibrium, by finding
that balance of work to family.

Irrigation Items for Sale
1.21 Toro OSMAC RDR's with a quantity of 40-16 Station Pedestals with hydraulic converters equipped with 24
mother boards and 93 - 8 station Triac
cards.
2. Two 75 H.P. vertical turbine pumps and
motors with one 25 H.P. Jockey and one
3/4 H.P. hydraulic supply pump station
with spare pump and motor.
3. Miscellaneous parts for all above.

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 Everglades chapter will host the 2001
Poa Annua Golf Classic weekend on May
18th- 20th at the Naples Beach Hotel.

Contact Bill Jeffrey at Bocaire CC at 561 - This year's event begins with the FGCSA
Board Meeting at 3:00 p.m. on Thursday
997-0408 for more information.
morning followed by a dinner for all
FGCSA board members.

GREEN SHEETS

Editor:
Joel Jackson, CGCS
(407) 248-1971 (fax/phone)
e-mail: FLGrn@aol.com

Cary Lewis, CGCS
2001 Poa Set for May 19th

Financial Support:
This issue of the Green Sheet is
being sponsored by:
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All material submitted for printing will
be edited at the discretion of the editor.
Material must be typed or clearly
The Green Sheet is a bimonthly FGCSA printed. Photos are encouraged. Items
newsletter printed as follows: Jan/Feb, must be for the good of the association.
March/April, May/June, July/August,
Deadline next issue: June 15.
Sept/October, November/December.

The FGCSA sponsored seminar, "How to
Find and Hire the Best Employees" by Tom
Maloney, Cornell University, will be held
on Friday morning from 8:00 a.m. to noon.
This seminar focuses on employee recruitment including how to develop a pool of
qualified applicants, recruitment methods
and advertising. This program has been
submitted to GCSAA for .35 CEU's which
may be used toward initial application and
renewal in the Certification Program.
The always popular Poa Annua Luau will
be held from 6:30 - 10:00 p.m. on the picturesque Watkins Lawn Friday night.
Shotgun start for the Poa Annua Golf Classic is 8:30 a.m Saturday morning at the
Beach Club Golf Course. The G. C. Horn
Tournament will begin at 8.30 on Sunday.
Call FGCSA office for registration forms.

Director of Communications Report

What's Up D.O.C-?

courses as only the 5th largest user of turf
in Florida and yet supplying 6 billion dolby Joel Jackson
lars to the economy. I had other turfgrass
facts; ten photos depicting golf course de1. Government Relations
signs showing extensive use of native plants
and natural areas; and two photos showing
SWFWMD Water Conservation Summit - turfgrass research at the University of
Stuart Bozeman, Cary Lewis, Alan Puckett, Florida.
John VanVranken and I attended the
SWFWMD Summit in Tampa from 7:30 The majority of talk was about practical
am to 4:00 pm on April 5th. The FGCSA conservation matters and developing new
was an exhibitor. We had a table top dis- water resources so everyone can live and
play booth and some handouts concerning prosper, but make no mistake, there were a
golf and the environment. Stu Bozeman is vocal few who opposed turf in any form,
a member of SWFWMD's Water Conser- including golf. Perhaps the most "damagvation Task Force and spoke on golf ing" was one of the keynote speakers, Amy
course's stewardship of water resources Vickers, who told the lunchtime audience
through golf course design, irrigation tech- that we need to naturalize our home propnology, and support of turf research for erties and do away with St. Augustine
BMP's and new turf varieties. The rest of turfgrass. She advocated using only native
us sat in on the various presentations and plant material that will live on the rainfall.
manned the booth during break periods. We The next day in the Orlando paper there
made some new contacts including a was an article about using Asiatic jasmine
county commissioner from Polk County as a lawn cover to replace turfgrass. Once
and two members of the St. John's Water a year mowing, no irrigation and no pests!
Management District and the Lake County
Water Authority. We gave away our sup- Water Source Survey -1 have been asked
ply of FGCSA "Golf is Good for You and several
times lately, "How many golf
the Environment" videos, GCSAA Green courses are
on effluent water in Florida?"
Tip sheets on "Golf and The Environment" In order to find
keep an eye out for a
and "Golf Courses and Pesticides." We also very short surveyout,
asking
is your irrigave away copies of the Winter 2001 gation water source. In thewhat
coming
days, it
Florida Green. The display board had a fact will be critical to know how many courses
sheet on turfgrass acres showing golf are using effluent, ground, surface and RO
water, so officials can better understand
golfs true impact on water resources.
When you get the survey, check off or fill
in the information and email or fax it back
ASAP. I might do a phone survey as well.
Thanks.

Call me or your chapter External Vice
President for more information. See the
related story on Curfew in this issue.
2. Allied Associations:
FTGA Conference -The GCSAA is working with the Michigan Turfgrass Foundation on a pilot project to use GCSAA's extensive education network to bolster and
improve educational opportunities and continuing education credit earning potential
at their annual conference. Due to the presence of the GCSAA in Orlando every three
years, the FTGA has asked GCSAA to do
a similar program with the Florida
Turfgrass Association to help the annual
FTGA Conference improve educational
opportunities for Florida Superintendents.
They will make a beginning presence at the
2001Confernce and expand their effort in
the coming years.

BMP Manual - The BMP Steering Committee met in March with each subcommittee reporting progress in their areas of:
Nutrition, Pesticides, Water, and Training
and Education. General tweaking of content items and information that should be
included were discussed. It is agreed that
the BMP Manual should be written as a
set of general guidelines and information
that give the reader an environmentally
friendly way to manage turfgrass that will
be effective, economical and efficient, but
will not name specific products with rates,
etc. It is being designed to make pesticide
and fertilizer users aware of environmental concerns that are being addressed by
local authorities and conservation groups.
The manual will show these groups that our
Nemacur -1 sent each chapter information industry is alert and aware and addressing
on the Bayer Nemacur Ground Water Study those concerns.
and have asked those chapters in
SWFWMD region to give me a list of FGCSA BMP Chairman Geoff Coggan is
courses willing to participate. The looking at partnering with Dr. Bryan Unruh
SWFWMD area was chosen by Bayer and of UF/IFAS and Mike Thomas of Florida
agreed to by Florida EPA because the dis- DEP to modify and include more environtrict has an extensive body of data on ex- mental awareness writing in the upcoming
isting wells and golf course locations which revision of IFAS' BMP's for Florida Golf
has been superimposed over a soils map. Courses. Our thinking is to avoid reinventOne of the keys to the study is that it be ing the wheel to produce a Golf Course
performed on golf course on sandy BMP Manual that will serve the purpose
"Florida-like soils." This study is RE- of having a viable document for local auQUIRED by EPA in order to maintain the thorities to refer to when discussing water
New FGCSA Display Makes Debut at Nemacur label for use in Florida, so step quality, nitrate leaching, and other environSWFWMDWater Conservation Summit up and volunteer your course as a test site. mental concerns

Water Restriction Policies
Continuation of D.O.C. column....
3. Public Relations:
It is one of my goals for the FGCSA to put on
a Media Day event in the near future. The concept is to pair golf and environmental media
with superintendents on a golf course and play
a round of golf. The superintendents will be
able to discuss the real world of golf maintenance to the writers and reporters and answer
questions in a "friendly" atmosphere. Picking
the right time of year will be critical to highlight perhaps the March pro tour swing through
Florida, or select a time of year when a major
renovation is going on to really show what
happens on a course.

Notes on the USGA
Regional Conference
Credit: Turf Talk Digest
by Dr. Phil Busey

Bruce Adams made an unscheduled
appearance yesterday to the US Golf
Association Regional Conference in
Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Bruce is
the Water Conservation Officer of the
South Florida Water Management District. He writes and manages Rule 40E21.275, the Water Shortage Plan, which
mandates water conservation phases
during drought as required by Florida
Getting reporters and writers away from their Statutes.
desks is also a consideration, and we may need
narrated the ongoing story of
to do 2, 3, or 4 of these around the state in Bruce
South
Florida's
drought crisis in
major media markets, which has the advantage 100 years, whichworst
began
in 2000, and
of keeping the numbers down so the events are may extend until 2002. Some
parts of
smaller in scale and may be easier to carry out. Florida, such as the Tampa Bay
area,
Be thinking of what you would want to share have been under even more severe
with the media, so we can do some talking about drought and water restrictions for sevthis venture. With the constant barrage of nega- eral years.
tive stories about golf courses and turfgrass in
general, we need to give reporters and writers Some of what Bruce said may be good
some facts from our side, so they can at least news for Florida Golf Course Superinask intelligent questions or question the infor- tendents and other managers of large
mation they hear from the opposition.
turf areas, who are trying to conserve
water with the best available technolbut who are hampered by what he
Mike Richards Memorial ogy,
described as the "arbitrary days and
hours" of water-use restrictions.
The North Florida GCSA sponsored another
successful Mike Richards Memorial Tourna- First some bad news. A hydrologic trigment at the Jacksonville G&CC on April 9th. ger" for possible Phase 3 water-use restrictions occurred on 4 April 2001.
Greg Tharp served as host superintendent.
Lake Okeechobee, which is South
This year the chapter honored three of their own Florida's water reservoir, had endured
pioneers in the turfgrass industry with the in- 80 continuous days below 11 feet of
augural Alan MacCurrach Lifetime Achieve- depth. This, in conjunction with pessiment Award. The first recipients were John mistic climate predictions, suggests that
Hayden, Ed Dyer arid Gary Ellison. Repre- the SFWMD Governing Board is "very,
sentatives of their families were invited to at- very close" to adopting Phase 3 restrictions at their next meeting, 10 May
tend the award ceremony.
2001, although, Bruce said, they "don't
want
to go into Phase 3 lightly." AboveOver the past 8 years the NFGCSA has given
average
rain for March had brought
out $42,000 in scholarships. This year's reenough
water
to the conservation areas
cipients were Chris Durkee and Jason Waller
east
of
Lake
Okeechobee,
to allow waof LCCC and Craig Banister of Abraham
ter
to
be
back-pumped
into
the lake.
Baldwin College. Waller and Banister received
the Alan MacCurrach $ 1,500 scholarship while
Durkee was awarded the $3,000 Mike Richards The District is serious about enforcement. In fact on Wednesday April 10,
scholarship.

they cited and fined the Town of Davie
Police Department, in Broward County, and
the Lake Park Police Department in Palm
Beach County received a $1500 fine.
As currently written, Phase 3 would mean
only 3 hours of irrigation once per week
for the residential lawn, and 7 hours of irrigation once per week for large (over 5 acre)
landscapes, and one weekend irrigation for
fairways and roughs (either Saturday or
Sunday) for the front nine and the back nine,
respectively. Fortunately, greens irrigation
would be only voluntarily reduced under
Phase 3 (non-daylight hours), and tees
would be allowed three irrigation events per
week.
I see challenges of fairness and common
sense in working within the conservation
mandates. Not all turf facilities are built the
same, and no two pumping systems are the
same. Depending on the pumping system,
simple math shows that it may be impossible to water nine fairways in a 7-hour period.
Most important, for what the District is trying to accomplish, existing Phase 1-2-3-4
rules do not place any incentive on actually
saving water! They just say when you can
or cannot irrigate. Free-market economists
have known theplasticity of supply and demand, that is, when prices for things rise,
people find imaginative ways to use less of
a commodity.
The good news is that Bruce discussed the
possibility of allowing the turf industry to
get away from "arbitrary hours and days, if
you're willing to be metered and monitored" and can deliver a certain percentage
of water conservation. The challenge by
Bruce Adams was explicit, if groups of
water users can deliver water use reduction,
"then you can write the rule." Any volunteers?
I asked Bruce, "How soon could this be
implemented, even before this drought is
over?" Bruce answered that this could be
an industry-wide variance prior to rule making, based on efficiency standards worked
out with the University of Florida-IFAS. He
indicated that he is "extremely impressed
by the sophistication and professionalism
of golf course superintendents."

USGA Regional Conference
All that it takes now is for the turf industry In other news from the USGA Regional
to get together and to propose a plan based Conference, Cornell University's Dr. Frank
Rossi talked about "The next golf environon "the best available technology."
mental crisis: Complacency." Rossi made the
There were numerous excellent questions point that he anticipates a backlash to the
asked of Bruce Adams, grants for reverse first 100 days of President Bush's environosmosis and retrofitting, enforcement of mental rollbacks. Rossi also indicated that
municipalities, storage of reuse water, and he "doesn't know why we separate good environmental stewardship from good ecoconservation incentives.
nomic policy."
The biggest unanswered question involved
sprigging of new turf, and renovations. Political statements on rolling back environCurrent Phase 2 restrictions allow only five mental enforcement, e.g. arsenic, because of
minutes per irrigation zone daily for the first the recession, do not bode well for public
30 days, while Phase 3 restrictions prohibit attitudes. During the Reagon-Watt-Gorsuch
irrigation of new plantings. Bruce indicated era, environmental activism was way up, as
that this may be revisited on April 16th with it was again during the Quayle-Council for
the advisory group, including Mike Bailey Economic Competitiveness era. So, don't be
and others, as the order for Phase 3 restric- complacent!
tions was prepared for the next Governing
Board meeting. With numerous golf (Editor's note): Dr. Busey did a good job
courses and athletic fields under recon- of summarizing Mr. Adams comments. I
struction, we need an answer soon.
would add that Bruce was very open and
honest about the reality of the situation with
The goal of SFWMD water conservation comments like: "Keep in mind 90% of the
mandates is to achieve 15%, 30%, 45%, population doesn't play or care about golf
and 60% conservation of landscape and when it comes to water use priorities"and
other water uses, for Phase 1, 2, 3, and 4 "Let's face it human consumption, sanitarestrictions. So far, conservation efforts tion, fire fighting and food production will
have not come close. The District has also take priority over golf turf and lawns when
been under attack from environmental the rubber meets the road."
groups, notably the Audubon society, for
being too lax with industry. The responsi- Mike Bailey of the South Florida GCSA and
bility of the District is clear, said Bruce, he Randy Bushway of the Palm Beach GCSA
is "sorry to say, but South Florida will turn and others are working with Adams and the
brown before we contaminate the well SFWMD to bring golf course industry confields" with saltwater.
cerns to the process of water restrictions.

New Turf Nematicide
Makes Debut in Florida
Just as we have been fighting to keep
Nemacur, our only synthetic
nematicide, from being off labeled in
Florida, Dow AgroSciences has received an Experimental Use Permit
from the EPA to treat 5,000 acres of
fairways only in Florida in 2001. Curfew is a soil fumigant. It is a liquid containing 94% 1,3 dicloropropene. This
active ingredient has been used effectively in other soil fumigants for more
than 30 years.
For environmental safety and and pest
management efficiency, Curfew is slit
injected using coulters and knives
which place the material at least 5
inches below the soil surface through
tubes located behind the knife.
Presswheels then close the cut seams
and seal the fumigant. The injection slit
typically heals over and disappears in
10-14 days.
Considerations: Minimum application
coverage requirement per course is 20
acres. The course must be closed for
24 hours following application. Due to
start time of application, this may actually require the course to be closed
up to two days for all practical purposes. The soil should be moist or
damp prior to application and .25 to .5
inches of irrigation must follow the application. With water restriction guidelines in place, you can water-in the pesticide, but only while the applicator is
on site. Those on 100% effluent irrigation, of course, are generally not
under any restrictions.
While Curfew is specifically labeled
for nematode management, research is
being conducted on the possible collateral control effects on mole crickets
and grubs.

Ray Duffy of Soil Fumigants, Inc. (next to tractor) explains new modifications
to the slit injection equipment used to apply Curfew during a fairway injection
demonstration at the Grand Cypress GC in Orlando.

Contact your area Golf Ventures representative, Steve Farrington of Dow
AgroSciences (407-841-6892), or Ray
Duffy of International Turf Applicators, Inc. (863-646-0259) for more information about Curfew applications.

Chapter Fundraisers

14th Annual South Florida
Exposition
This year's Expo was held on Thursday
March 22nd at the UF Research & Education Center in Fort Lauderdale and had
something for everyone.
The Expo, a major fundraising event for
South Florida superintendents brings together all corners of our turf industry for a
fun-filled educational event. The funds help
support turfgrass research.
Two great turf professionals were featured
speakers. Dr. Monica Elliott, IFAS turf
pathologist, provided a seminar on the top
ten problems in turf. Mrs. Lee Bloomcamp,
Field Representative for Syngenta, gave a
timely and entertaining presentation on the
ever-merging turf industry and changes to
expect in the new millenium from a regulatory perspective.
With south Florida nearing desert conditions, Mr. Bruce Adams, long-time official
with the South Florida Water Management
District, gave an in-depth overview of current and pending water restrictions. It
should be noted that local newspapers provided simultaneous front-page gloom and
doom and rainy prognostications during the
week of the Expo. These dueling newspaper reports have usually been accurate predictors of the end of the dry season!

Suncoast Chapter President Tom Crawford (center) presented checks for
$2,500 to Don Benham (FTGA) and Joel Jackson (FGCSA) at the 2001
Suncoast Scramble held on March 20th at Misty Creek CC in Sarasota.

Punta Gorda, and his family and staff
drove all the way over from southwest Florida with their own cookers
and fresh food to provide another "to
die for" barbecue with all the fixings.
It is truly an Expo highlight to witness the preparation of the lunch as
the event unfolds. In addition to the
great treat, Wiley, by providing the
lunch, contributes a great amount of
financial support for our turf program.
The day began with early morning turf tours Wiley and family, thank you very
highlighting ongoing research. After the
tours, the over 400 participants interacted
with turf industry sponsors and supporters.
The Expo provides an excellent opportunity for "test drives" of the fine selection of
equipment available for turfgrass management.

much for being a major sponsor of our Expo.
After lunch, the educational opportunities continued with featured presentations and industry workshops on irrigation, equipment troubleshooting, and sprayer calibration exercises. A
special thanks to Dr. Vernon Vandiver, Aquatic
Weeds Specialist, for leading the sprayer calibration workshop and to representatives from
Rainbird, Kilpatrick Turf, NuCrane Machinery
and Hector Turf for the other technical portions
of the afternoon program.

At lunch, Dr. Van Waddill was introduced
as the new Senior Center Director of the
Ft. Lauderdale Research and Education
Center.
As the introductions concluded the air was
thick with the aroma of delicious barbecue
that became a bountiful picnic reality for
all in attendance. For the third consecutive
year, Chef Wiley McCall, sod farm owner
and operator of Emerald Island Turf in

Part of the crowd of 350 attendees to the 2001 Turf Expo at the Fort Lauderdale
REC watch an aerifier demonstration on the turf plots. This year's event raised
over $30,000 to help pay for the maintenance of the research plots.
Photo by Steve Pearson.

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Plants Soak Up Arsenic From Soil
Golf Course Architect Jan Beljan first
called my attention to this news. Beljan
is also a member of the Florida
Turfgrass Association and is constantly
looking at ways to minimize environmental impacts of golf course design
and maintenance inputs.
Arsenic levels are waving red flags at
environmental regulators and golf
courses are areas of concern to them.
We are awaiting final determination
from a recent arsenic study done in Dade
County last year.
This latest news from IFAS might be ap-

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Credit UF/IFAS Newsline, Spring 2001
plicable to mitigating any problems from these contaminated soils," said Associate
arsenic that might exist especially on Prof.Lena Ma, lead researcher on the project.
older courses or at mix and load sites.
Ma's research team found that the brake fern,
Pteris
vittata, not only soaks up arsenic but
"In the Feb. 1 issue of the journal Nadoes
so
with staggering efficiency. They meature, UF scientists reported discovering
sured
as
much as 200 times higher in the fern
a fern that soaks up arsenic from conthan
the
concentrations
in contaminated soils
taminated soil. The first plant ever found
where
it
was
growing.
to 'hyperaccumulate' arsenic - a carcinogenic heavy metal often used as an herbicide - the fern may prove useful in Because the fern accumulates 90% of the arcleaning up thousands of sites contami- senic in its fronds and stems, the strategy
nated by arsenic from industrial mining, would be to grow the plant on toxic sites, then
harvest the fronds and stems - it's above
agricultural or other operations..
ground biomass - and transport them to a des"It has great potential for remediating ignated hazardous waste facility."

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