V O L U M E X V I I I , P A R T 2, M A R C H / A P R I L 2Ö02

NEWSLETTER OF THE FLORIDA GOLF COURSE SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION

Geoff Coggan, CGCS, MG,
(left) welcomes GCSAA
members to Orlando Conference & Show.
Bill Davidson, Jr., Colliers
Reserve, Naples, accepts
the award as Overall and
National Private Club Winner in GCSAA/Golf Digest
2001 Environmental Leadership Ceremony.
See page 7 for more stories
from the 2002 GCSAA
Conference and Show.
FGCSA President Geoff Coggan, CGCS, MG

Bill Davidson, Jr. Colliers Reserve GC

UPCOMING EVENTS
Mar. 4

Ridge Invitational Tournament, Grasslands, Lakeland

Mar. 5

North Florida chapter
meeting, St. Johns G&CC

Mar 13 Palm Beach chapter
meeting, Boca Greens CC

Mar. 21 SFGCSA Expo and UF Field
Day, Fort Lauderdale REC
(see details page 6)
Apr. 1

North Florida GCSA Mike
Richards Tournament,
Jacksonville G&CC

Mar. 18 West Coast chapter meeting,
Riverhills GC

Apr. 11 Everglades GCSA Spring
Seminar, Naples Beach Club
(see details page 6)

Mar. 19 Suncoast Scramble,
Misty Creek CC, Sarasota

Apr. 15 Envirotron Tournament,
World Woods GC

Mar. 21 Calusa chapter Equipment
Rodeo, Babcock Ranch

Apr. 16 Suncoast chapter meeting,
Pelican Pointe CC

Apr. 24 West Coast chapter meeting,
East Lake Woodlands
May 6

North Florida chapter
meeting, Magnolia Pointe

May 10 FGCSA seminar, "Are You
Prepared to Say Yes", Naples
Beach Hotel. 8:00 a.m.
May 10 G. C. Horn Tournament,
Naples Beach Club, 1:00 p.m
May 11 Poa Tournament, Naples
Beach Club, 8:30 a.m.

President's Message

President's Message
Geoff Coggan, CGCS, MG

which they could be paid certainly seemed
to have the desired effect. It will be interesting to see the final figures.

After having walked around the Orlando
Convention Center for both the PGA Merchandise Show and the GCSAA show I
am happy to be back at work. The shows
were excellent, the educational programs
superb and the opportunity to see old
friends and to make new acquaintances
refreshing. I doubt if anyone could have
come away from either show without a
sense of pride and enthusiasm for our profession.

My education classes seemed well attended and judging by the lunch crowds
so were the others. The Opening Session
was good; speeches were kept to a minimum including my own welcoming remarks and a very interesting if not somewhat bizarre motivational speech presented by the legendary Coach Jimmy
Johnson. The evening was rounded out
with a great reception in the Rosen Centre, though most I think would have appreciated the reception being a little closer.

The PGA show with the latest in golf ball
and club technology guaranteed to produce
straighter and longer drives; new fashion
lines, memorabilia for every inch of wall
space and a slew of accessories; and all
could be seen if you cared to walk the 12.5
miles around all the booths.

Thursday saw the hard work of Mike
Perham, Marie Roberts and Joel Jackson
come to fruition. The FGCSA reception
organized by Mike, Marie and Joel and
sponsored by a very supportive group of
vendors was a success. I must thank them
all for their commitment and I hope that
they had a great time. And special thanks
The GCSAA show - though smaller by to all the Florida Chapters that also supcomparison - was excellent. I'm sure that ported the event.
those choosing not to pre-register this year
will have their registrations in early next Friday I had the chance to attend the Presiyear judging by the line for registration dents Dinner and Show, a fanfare event
Thursday morning. The enticement by honoring Past President Tommy Witt
GCSAA to leave registration fees at the CGCS, and outgoing Past President Scott
pre-registration rate and to offer terms by Woodhead, CGCS. We also had a brief

GREEN SHEE
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Geoff Coggan, CGCS, MG

introduction to our new President Mike
Wallace CGCS, and the opportunity to hear
an acceptance speech by Walter Woods
Esq. on receiving the coveted Old Tom
Morris Award. Another good evening
rounded offby dinner then dancing to "38
Special".
The trade show bustled and the cyber cafe
and silent auction centers seemed to draw
quite a crowd also.
Congratulations to Mark Henderson, Palm
Beach chapter, for his second place finish
in the Champions Flight of the Golf Tournament, and a commendable third place
finish for our guys in the team event. Unfortunately one of our leading competitors,
Buck Buckner could not make the event
having had triple by-pass surgery only days
before. I wish you a speedy recovery Buck
and look to Atlanta next year for us to
crown one of our own as champion.
All in all I had a very good time at both
shows and enjoyed meeting many of you.
I will be continuing my trek around the
state and look forward to seeing the remaining chapters real soon as well as visiting the student chapter at Edison CC
thanks to an invitation I received from
Chad Holliday.

Director of Communications Report

What's Up D.O.C.?
by Joel Jackson

Don't forget to visit our FGCSA Website:
www.floridagcsa.com - for the latest news
and upcoming events or to contact the association. Submit your news of meetings
and events to me so I can post them. Any
new information is posted on the weekends.
1. Government Relations: Nemacur registration - An all day meeting (Feb 12th)
with EPA, Florida and Bayer failed to reach
a final conclusion on Nemacur. The proposed ground water study agreed to by
Bayer and Florida did not satisfy EPA who
wanted more sites, wells and samples,
which makes the study cost prohibitive for
Bayer. The only apparent chance for the
product to survive for use on golf turf is to
make further label restrictions on how
much, where and when the product is used.
Whether or not EPA will sign off on that
approach has yet to be determined. We
should have a good idea by the end of
March.
Springs BMP TAC Group - This group
will meet in Tallahassee on Feb. 21st. I
have seen the draft on the Golf Course
module and it is pretty straight forward.
The primary focus is not to permit a golf
course to be sited on land in a sensitive
spring's watershed. The maintenance aspects generally follow current trends in
BMP management and following Audubon
ACSP and Signature guidelines. The only
section I have question on is the water quality monitoring. The testing requirements
need to be reasonable in terms of frequency
and number of samples and products being tested for. It can get expensive.
Water - Stuart Bozeman reports that the
SWFWMD staff has heard us loud and
clear and will recommend to the Board of
Governors our percentage reduction plan
for dealing with future drought emergencies. We're not home free yet; the Board
has to vote on it first. If it does pass, it will
be incumbent on every golf course to honestly manage and conserve their irrigation.
If too many courses over pump, you can
count on going back to the dark ages of
day of the week watering days.
Just a "heads up"fromour friends in Georgia. Frank Siple, CGCS of Lanier GC in

Georgia called to report that in the
Chattahoochee Basin the water district has
said "No new permits" for golf courses.
Originally existing courses like Frank's
were also told they must be on reclaimed
water by the time their renewed permit expires. He said they have backed off on that
a little since the economic impact to hook
up may in effect force course.to shut down.
At any rate the Georgia water regulators
are telling golf courses to look for alternative sources of water if they want to build
new courses. It would be advisable for each
and every golf course in Florida to start
considering alternatives as well.

impact study to back up their justification
for careful consideration on regulating golf
courses due to their economic importance.
For the life of me I can't understand why
Florida golf courses can't get it together
long enough tofightfor their own survival.
Filling out that survey is a small price of
time and effort to give credibility in our
fights for fair treatment when it comes to
regulating golf courses no matter what the
issue. I can get you a copy of the survey CALL ME at 407-248-1971 or email at
FLGRN@aol.com.

3. Education: South Florida Turf Expo March 21st. Is this the last one to be held
Fast Facts on Water from the Florida in Ft. Lauderdale? Show up and rub elbows
PEP and USGS websites:
with IFAS and give them your input on the
future of the turfgrass program.
1. 1998 - 1448 golf courses in Florida. 18
hole = 804,9 hole = 158, executive = 486. There will be a GCSAA seminar at the Poa
Annua on Friday, May 10th. GCSAA Past
2. Average size 137 acres. Average irri- President Tommy Witt will talk on the subgated acreage 89 acres.
ject, "Are You Prepared to Say Yes?" He
is a dynamic speaker and there's no time
3.401 courses were using reclaimed water like the present to start getting your CEU's
in 1998.
in order for PDI Class A and of course
CGCS points.
4. Statewide Daily Water Use - Public Supply 28.62%; Domestic self supply (private There will also be a GCSAA seminar in
homeowner wells 4.12% = 32.74% for Tampa at the FTG A Conference on Monpublic use; Commercial-industrial-mining day, September 16th. Tentative speaker, Dr.
9.59%; agricultural irrigation 44.96%; Bob Carrow, U of GA, his topic - "14 Ways
Recreational irrigation 3.89%; Power gen- a Green Can Fail" If there's any more reeration 8.82%.
gional seminars, I haven't heard of them.
5. Golf course irrigation is 67% of the Rec- 4. Media/Public Relations - I had two
reational irrigation use above. So golf's items referring to our proposed water reactual use statewide is 2.6% of the daily striction rule changes printed in the Februtotal used.
ary 2002 issues of Florida Golf News and
Golf News. On February 22nd I will be
6. An estimated 39% of the freshwater joining Craig Weyandt at the Moorings GC
withdrawnfromFlorida was consumed, the for an interview with a local radio station.
remaining 61 % was returned for use again. Craig heard a blurb from the "90 Second
Naturalist" the other day and the guy said
2. Allied Associations: The GCSAA Con- runoff from golf courses were making the
ference reached over 20,000 in attendance water in the lagoon murky." Craig followed
by Friday and I heard over 7,000 took part up and found out these are old canned mesin the educational seminars. Final numbers sagesfroma guy at the Cincinnati Zoo, who
still to be tabulated.
used to live here. That sound byte may be
two years old, and of course there's no refGolf Survey: The last report I had from erence to scientific study just the old usual
Roy Bates was that the Economic Impact runoff story being told again and again. So
survey return numbers were less than de- Craig followed up and he's going to show
sired for a good sample as of the 1/15 dead- the stations newscaster how they do things
line. I heard at the GCSAA in Orlando sev- at the Moorings. I'm going there for any
eral states that were doing either water or questions on a statewide perspective.
nutrient studies are also doing an economic

FGCSA Winter 2002
Board Meeting

The Winter 2002 meeting of the FGCSA
Board of Directors was called to order by
President Geoff Coggan, CGCS, MG at 1:00
p.m. on Friday, January 18th at Grand Cypress in Orlando.

the magazine primarily for public relations, education, and service to members
or should it be a money making entity for
the FGCSA. Or both. The ad rates are
considered low by industry standards but
we are a localized magazine with limited
press run. Joel discussed ways of bringing the printing costs down somewhat by
requiring all ads by submitted digitally
rather than on film and not using a color
proof of the magazine. Mike Perham
suggested the Publications Committee set
a target amount for the reserve in the
magazine account. Greg Pheneger will
include some of these thoughts in his conversation with our accountant.

All officers were present and all chapters External Vice Presidents were present. Other
FGCSA members attending the meeting were
Joel Jackson - Florida Green editor; Past
President Dale Kuehner - Voting Delegate;
Past President Kevin Downing - Alternate
Voting Delegate; Past President Michael
Perham, Reception Chairman; Michael
McCulloch - Incoming Suncoast External RECEPTION: Mike Perham anV.P.; Brian Schafer - Incoming Seven Rivers nounced that sponsors and chapters have
External V.P. and Michael Goldie, Lobbyist. contributed $62,800 for the Orlando reception. We have a $13,000 carryover
Mike Goldie gave a brief synopsis of what to from the Dallas reception leaving us
expect from the current legislative session $75,000 to cover the costs of this year's
starting this month. He will be sending a list reception. We have booked a six piece
of all bills to be discussed during the session band, contracted with a decorating serand a list of the committees formed. He will vice and ordered plenty of food and bevcontinue to monitor the session and report erage from the Rosen Centre. We exback to the board.
pect more than 1,000 attendees!
The minutes of the Fall Board Meeting were Mike announced that Stanley Carr and
approved.
Walter Woods (GCSAOld Tom Morris
winner from St. Andrews) are available
Lake City Community College: Geoff urged to play the bag pipes at the opening of
all chapters to support LCCC recruitment by the reception. After a discussion, it was
inviting John Piersol to speak at your local decided to ask them to open the Pre-rechapter meetings.
ception at 6:30 p.m. All chapter presidents and FGCSA board members are
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS: Greg expected to be on hand at 6:15 to thank
Pheneger presented the FGCSA Financial the sponsors personally for their finanStatements for the second quarter of this fis- cial assistance at the reception. Letters
cal year. He gave a comparison of the oper- will be sent to all chapter presidents urgating budget at this time a year ago. He noted ing them to attend this important part of
that we are now paying 100% of the lobbyist the reception.
fee rather than sharing the cost with the FTGA
and that the revenue for the Florida Green We will have a uniformed guard at the
account is down at least $26,000. The Florida door checking for wristbands but need
Green continues to pay for Operating ex- volunteers to help those without wristpenses for the association in order to try to bands. Volunteers to serve half hour to
offset the tax liability on advertising income. hour shifts were Craig Weyandt, Doug
Greg will contact our accountant in Kansas Abbuhl, John Lammrish, Dale Witting,
to go over any steps we should be taking to Buddy Keene, Steve Ciardulla and Jeff
better our financial position.
Brown. Thanks to all of these members
for volunteering their time.
PUBLICATIONS: David Court announced
that he is planning a meeting of the Publica- D.O.C.: Joel Jackson distributed a packtions Committee to discuss various aspects age of hand outs that included informaof the Florida Green philosophy — again, is tion on government relations activities in-

cluding water issiies, nemacur, the progress
of the Best Management Practices, and the
latest information on the University of
Florida IFAS budget situation. He discussed the lettersfromVice President Mike
Martin about the research center in Fort
Lauderdale in particular and discussed the
possibility of a lobbying group to go to
Tallahassee to support all of the Florida
REC's
IFAS: David Court gave a report of the
November FTGA meeting. He noted that
the current plan for IFAS is to shut down
the turf research but still continue the teaching stations in Bradenton and Fort Lauderdale. Where these turf plots will be moved
to has not been determined though there is
much speculation. David suggested that
the industry should make the decision and
that a luncheon is being planned to include
all those industries that would be affected
by the decision — equipment companies,
irrigation, fertilizers, etc. He discussed the
proposed reorganization structure of the
IFAS centers — Bradenton and Fort Lauderdale in particular since IFAS has reported that these two facilities use a great
percentage of the IFAS state budgets —
particularly in repair and maintenance.
Mike Goldie confirmed that the average
politician in Tallahassee does not have a
good idea of the benefit of the IFAS stations.
GOVERNMENT RELATIONS: Dale
Walters discussed the upcoming Water
Symposium to be held in Naples during the
week of the Poa. Dale will attend the Symposium to display the FGCSA exhibit featuring water conservation strategies used by
golf courses. Joel suggested that other
chapters around the state volunteer to attend this type of meeting in their area as a
public relations opportunity.
POA: This year's Poa weekend has been
moved up to the weekend containing
Mother's Day, that is May 9th through the
12th. We will hold the FGCSA board meeting on Thursday with the seminar to be held
on Friday morning. The G. C. Horn Tournament will be played on Friday afternoon.
The Poa Classic will tee off on Saturday
morning with the luau on the grounds of
the Beach Club on Saturday night. The
weekend ends on Sunday with a Mother's

Day Brunch at the Beach Club.
EDUCATION: John Lammrish presented
some suggestions for the Poa seminar.
After a discussion it was decided to invite
Tommy Witt, CGCS, to be the speaker for
the seminar.
John also reminded all chapters that March
1 st is the deadline to apply for a GCSAA
Regional Seminar. We will offer a Regional Seminar in the Palm Beach area this
year and expect all chapters to advise John
if they are applying for a Regional Seminar. The only way to spread these out
through the year is to help John coordinate
the dates and subjects. He urged all External Vice Presidents to follow through on
this by reporting the dates and topics for
their Regional Seminars to John before
March 1st.
MEMBERSHIP: Three applicants were
considered for Lifetime Membership. Don
Delaney and Cary Lewis were approved but
Michael Swanson was not approved.
Joe Pantaleo discussed a plan to include
the FGCSA recruitment brochure and a
membership application in the Spring 2002
Florida Green. This separate mailing will
be sent to non-member clubs within the
state of Florida.
GOLF: Mark Henderson reported that
the Florida team will be composed of Chris
Cartin, Joe Ondo, Mark Henderson and
Mark Hopkins. Florida should have three
teams represented in the GCSAA Tournament. Good luck to all our golfers.
RESEARCH: Geoff Coggan voiced his
thanks to Steve Pearson and Steve Kuhn
for continuing to oversee the maintenance
of the FGCSA Research Green at the REC
in Fort Lauderdale.

Darren distributed a discussion paper for
developing a national strategy for ARS
Turfgrass Research. He also noted the
many millions of dollars for turfgrass research being funded by other organizations
including the USGA and the USDA.

Board Meeting. DSA and Presidents
Award nominations must be received in
writing prior to the board meeting. The Executive Committee will meet immediately
after the Poa meeting to make a decision
on this year's awards. A discussion was
held regarding keeping the DSA nominaFTGA: David Court announced that the tion a secret or making an announcement
FTGA Convention will be held in at the of the winners name after decision is made
Hyatt Hotel in Tampa from September at the board meeting.
15th -18th. There will be plenty of education during the Conference but will be FUTURE DUES INCREASE: Geoff
no equipment at the Show, only tabletop Coggan distributed graphs showing how
displays. The Golf Tournament and Corn our reserves have depleted during the past
Boil will be held on Monday as well as few years. It seems prudent to establish a
the turf technicians program; the Trade level that is justified for the lowest end for
Show on Tuesday; and the activities will our reserves before deciding on a dues inclose Wednesday at noon. For further crease. It was suggested that the Long
Range Planning Committee should decide
details, contact the FTGA office.
on what minimum those reserve levels
The FTGA Regional Seminars will con- should be before the next board meeting.
tinue through the end of January. A total We also need to research other Allied Asof seven seminars will be given at various sociations (FTGA, IFAS, etc.) to find out
if they will be needing our financial suplocations around the state.
port in the near future.
GCSAA: Dale Kuehner discussed the
results of the informal questionnaire sent MISCELLANEOUS:
to all GCSAA candidates. As expected,
most of the questions were answered con- Joe Pantaleo announced that the SFGCSA
servatively but Dale and Kevin have made will continue to sponsor the SF Exposition
some preliminary decisions based on their this year with the proceeds to be used at
observation of the candidates. Mark the IFAS Fort Lauderdale center. Date is
Woodward is an excellent candidate for set for Thursday, March 21st.
the Secretary/Treasurer position. Two
Director candidates were picked as front Geoff Coggan suggested a combined meetrunners for the openings on the board — ing with FGCSA board and Water ManageDavid Downing and Mark Kuhns. After a ment District personnel. Scheduling would
discussion of all the candidates, Greg appear to be extremely difficult but Geoff
Pheneger made a motion to vote for Mark will follow up on this and report back at
Woodward for Secretary/Treasurer and for the Spring Board Meeting.
Downing and Kuhns as Directors. The
motion was approved. As usual, there will Secretary/Treasurer Greg Pheneger noted
be a short caucus for any interested that in the past we have reduced the FGCSA
FGCSA member immediately preceeding dues to 1/2 the annual amount in January.
the GCSAA voting on Friday morning, A motion was made by John Lammrish to
continue this tradition. The motion was
February 8th.
approved. FGCSA dues for the remainder
Dale Kuehner noted that the number of of the fiscal year will be $30.00/member.
Florida voting members is going down;
some FGCSA members are not members The next meeting of the FGCSA Board will
of GCSAA. We will get with the GCSAA be held in the late afternoon on Thursday,
staff to be sure that our voting numbers May 9th. Following the meeting, we will
are as accurate as they can be for future have a dinner for board members and their
spouses at the Naples Beach Hotel.
elections

Darren Davis reported that 34 proposals
were submitted for funding in the GCSAA
Research Program. The Committee has
given their report to the GCSAA Board
which will announce their decisions at the
Convention. The committee approved 10
of the 34 proposals. He thanked Geoff for
taking the time to write an impressive letter of support for the research project sub- S.O.P. MANUAL/AWARDS: Both of Since there was no further business, the
mitted by the FGCSA.
these items will be discussed at the Poa meeting was adjourned at 4:35 p.m.

Chapter Fundraising Events

2002 Local Florida Chapter Fundraising Season Begins in March
Special Thanks to all our Affiliate Members for your Sponshorship Support
10th Annual Envirotron NFGCSA's Mike Richards
20th Annual Suncoast
Golf Classic - April 15th Tournament Set for April 1 Scramble -- March 19th

The Seven Rivers GCSA is proud to join
with major sponsor, Barbaron, Inc. in presenting the 10th Annual Envirotron Tournament to be held on Monday, April 15th,
at World Woods Golf Club.
The Envirotron Classic is one of the main
research fundraisers for theF lorida
Turfgrass Association. Proceeds from this
tournament have supported the Envirotron
Research Laboratory located at the University of Florida Gainesville campus.
Donations over the past ten years have totalled more than $350,000 thanks to the
generosity of Barbaron, Inc., all the sponsors, and World Woods GC.
Registration forms are available from the
FTGA office at 800-882-6721 or by contacting a Seven Rivers GCSA board member. This is a very popular tournament so
get your registration in today!

Ridge Chapter Schedules
11th Annual Invitational
The 11th Annual Ridge Invitational will be
played at Grasslands G&CC in Lakeland
on Monday, March 4th. Roy Wilshire
serves as host. Grasslands has been the
site for the Invitational since its inception
in 1992.
Registration begins at 10:00 a.m. with a
noon time shotgun start. Door prize drawings and the famous Bar-b-Que follow golf.
Format is individual stroke play offering
prizes for both net and gross. This
fundraiser has an emphasis on "fun" by
offering a challenge to all Florida chapters
to try to field a team that can beat the
mighty guys from the Ridge!
Chapter team and individual entry forms
are available by contacting Tom Barnett at
863-638-3754. This Tournament fills up
quickly so sponsors and chapters are urged
to call in their team members to Tom as
soon as possible.

The North Florida GCSA will sponsor the
Tenth Annual Mike Richards Memorial
Scholarship Tournament on Monday, April
1st at Jacksonville G&CC.

The 20th Annual Suncoast Scramble will
be played at Misty Creek CC in Sarasota
on Tuesday, March 19th. Tom Crawford
continues his tradition as host superintenThis tournament was established as a fund- dent for this event.
raising vehicle by the North Florida chapter in April of 1993 in order to fund schol- POA Moves to May 9 - 12
arships for students in the area who are
seeking a turf related career path. Three The Everglades GCSA has announced that
separate scholarships were awarded last this year's Poa event will be held on
year for a total of $6,000.
Mother's Day weekend, May 9th through
The format will be a two man scramble with 12th at Naples Beach Club.
gross and net team play. Registration be- This fun-filled weekend begins with the
gins at 9:00 a.m. with an 11:0 a.m. shotgun FGCSA Spring Board Meeting on Thurday
start. Contact host Greg Tharp or other afternoon followed by a dinner for all
member of the North Florida Board of Di- board
members. Friday includes a mornrectors for an entry form.
ing seminar presented by Tommy Witt,
Past President, speaking on "Are
SFGCSA Presents 15th GCSAA
You Prepared to Say Yes?". This seminar
focuses on building professional relationAnnual Exposition
ships and communicating with your employer. The G. C. Horn Tournament will
This year's SFGCSA Exposition and Field tee off at 1:00 p.m.
Day will be held on Thursday, March 21 st
at the University of Florida's IFAS REC in The Poa Tournament will be played on
Fort Lauderdale.
Saturday this year! Shotgun start is at 8:30
The always popular luau will be held
This event was inaugurated in 1988 as a a.m.
on
Saturday
on the lawn of the
means of raising funds to build a USGA Beach Club.evening
The
weekend
up
research green for the south florida area. with a Mother's Day Brunch atfinishes
the
Beach
All funds raised in succeeding years have Club restaurant.
gone to the upkeep and maintenance of the
Otto Schmeisser Research Green and other
bermudagrass plots at the Center. In light
of the recent budget cuts, the South Florida Everglades Spring Seminar
Board of Directors is looking for a big turnat Naples Beach Hotel
out to show support for the research staff
in Fort Lauderdale.
The Everglades GCSA has set Thursday,
11th, for their Tenth Annual Spring
The Exposition offers equipment demon- April
Seminar
at Naples Beach Hotel. The all
strations and booth displays along with a day program
full day of educational programs. Field at 8:00 a.m. with CEU's available begins
Tours and research reports are held in the
morning while afternoon concurrent ses- Featured speaker will be Dr. Milt Engelke,
sions allow for CEU education for super- popular researcher from Texas. For the
intendents, mechanics and technicians. complete lineup of speakers and registraPre-registration fee of $30.00 includes the tion
information, please contact Education
show area, CEU's and the famous Emerald Chairman
Matt Taylor at 941-261-4987.
Island Turf bar-b-que.

Orlando Conference & Show

GCSAA Conference & Show - Orlando 2002 Recap
Thanks to All Our Florida
GCSAA Election Highlights GCSAA Co-Funds Florida GCSA Reception Sponsors!
Platinum Sponsors
Research Project
Michael Wallace, CGCS at Fairview Farm
* Chipco Products

GC in Harwinton, Connecticut, was elected
president of GCSAA during the
association's annual meeting on Friday, February 8th. Wallace succeeds Tommy Witt,
CGCS who will now serve on the Board of
Directors as immediate past president.

Jon D. Maddern, CGCS at Elk Ridge GC
in Atlanta, was elected vice president and
Mark J. Woodward, CGCS at Dobson
Ranch/Riverview GC in Mesa, Arizona, was
elected secretary/treasurer. David Downing II, CGCS at Barefoot Resort in North
Myrtle Beach, S.C. and Sean Hoolehan,
CGCS at Wildhorse Resort GC in
Pendleton, Oregon were elected as directors. Ricky Heine, CGCS at the Golf Club
at Star Ranch in Austin, Texas was appointed to the director position vacated by
Woodward. Timothy O'Neill, CGCS and
Robert J. Malbusch, CGCS, will serve the
second year of their two-year terms to complete the 2002 GCSAA Board.

Florida Superintendents
Honored during Convention

The GCSAA announced five projects that
* Golf Ventures Industries
will be funded through the GCSAA Chap* Harrell's Fertilizer/Polyon
ter Cooperative Research Program; three
* Toro/Wesco Turf/Hector Turf
under the National Research Program; and
* Jacobsen, Cushman & Ryan
two projects funded by the Mark Kizziar (Golf Ventures, Kilpatrick Turf and
Research Grant. Listed below are those
Tresca Equipment Co.)
projects that are of particular interest to the
Gold Sponsors
Florida superintendent.
Dow AgroSciences
Influence of Plant-Parasitic Nematodes
on Potential Nitrate Leaching on Golf
Course Turf Project submitted by Dr.
William T. Crowe, University of Florida,
for $8,500 per year for two years; total
$17,000. Matching funds provided by
Florida GCSA. This project was approved
by the FGCSA Board of Directors at the
Fall 2001 Board Meeting for submission
to the GCSAA Research Committee.
Use of Plant Extracts for Suppression of
Problematic Nematodes. Project submitted byDrs. Campbell Cox and Bert
McCarty, Clemson University.

Cultural and Biological Prevention and
Control of Thatch-Mat in Ultradwarf
Creeping Bentgrass and Bermudagrass
The following Florida Superintendents were Golf Greens. Project submitted by Mr.
announced as GCSAA/Golf Digest 2001 En- Matt Gregg and Dr. Bert McCarty,
vironmental Leaders in Golf Awards during Clemson University.
the GCSAA Convention:
Development ofBest Management PracOverall and National Private Club Winner: tices for Maximum Performance of Sea
William Davidson, Jr., Colliers Reserve, Isle 2000 and Sea Isle I Paspalum in the
Southwest. Project submitted by Drs.
Naples (Everglades GCSA).
David M. Kopec and M. Pessarakli, and
Chapter Winner - Public Facilities: John Mr. J. Gilbert, University of Arizona.
Scott Kopack, The Legacy Club at Alaqua
Lakes, Central Florida GCSA.
The Florida GCSA wishes to thank Past
President Darren Davis for serving on the
Chapter Winner - Private Facilities: Kyle D. GCSAA Research Committee. Darren is
Sweet, The Sanctuary GC, Everglades excited about a Wetting Agent Evaluation
GCSA and Jeffrey Klontz, The Country Club that the Committee recommended to start
of Florida, Palm Beach GCSA.
in Spring 2003. This will be a first on this
type of project for GCSAA.
Other involved superintendents included
Tim Hiers, Old Colliers GC, who spoke on More detailed descriptions of the above
Paspalum and also on Building a Golf projects and a complete list of all the
Course on an Environmentally Sensitive projects funded by the GCSAA are availSite. Kevin Cavanaugh, The Plantation at able by contacting the GCSAA Research
Ponte Vedra, was a participant in the Inno- Department or by checking the GCSAA
vative Superintendent Session.
web site.

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Silver Sponsors

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Eagle One Golf Products
Florida Coast Equipment/Kubota
Florida Superior Sand, Inc.
Golf Agronomics
Howard Fertilizer
Laserturf SE, Inc.
Nucrane Machinery
Precision Small Engine Co.
ProSource One
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Bronze Sponsors

Aerification Plus/Almar
BASF
Disbrow Enterprises, Inc.
DST-Sports Turf Construction
E. R. Jahna Industries
Florida Potting Soils
FMC Corp.
Greg Norman Turf
Grigg Brothers
Hamilton Turf Farms
Hendrix and Dail, Inc.
Hunter Golf
Lake Masters Aquatic Weed Control
Liquid Ag/Douglass Fertilizer
Pickseed West Inc.
RapidTurf, Inc.
Ringhaver Equipment Co.
South Florida Grassing, Inc.
Ted Owen/Upstart Products
Tee-to-Green Turf Products
The Anderson's Technologies
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