NORTHWEST TURFGRASS TOPICS
PUYALLUP, W A S H I N G T O N

VOL. 11, No. 2

SEPTEMBER, 1969

PROGRAM — 23rd NORTHWEST TURFGRASS CONFERENCE
Hoyden Loke# Idaho — September 24, 25 & 26, 1969
Wednesday afternoon, September 24
1:15 - 1:30

1:30 - 2:15

2:15 - 3:00

CALL TO ORDER AND WELCOME.
Mr, George Harrison, President , Northwest Turfgrass
Association, President,
Hayden Lake Golf & Country
Club, Dr, Jack Robins, Director Exp, Station, Wash,
State University, Pullman,
Wash,
OVERWINTERING DISEASES OF
TURFGRASSES, Mr. J, Drew
Smith, Plant Pathologist,
Grasses, Research Branch,
Canada Agric,, University
Campus, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan,
THE VALUE OF THE TURFGRASS
INDUSTRY - WASHINGTON STATE
TURFGRASS SURVEY, Dr, Roy
L. Goss, W,W,R,E,C,, Puyallup,
Wash,

3:00 - 3:20

Break

3:20-4:00

THE EFFECTS OF THREE NITROGEN SOURCES AND THREE
pH MODIFIERS ON TURF QUALITY,
Mr, Wilbur L, Bluhm and Dr.
Norman R, Goetze, County
Extension Agent, Oregon
State University, Salem,
Oregon

4:00 - 4:35 TARTAN SURFACING MATERIAL
EXPANDS FROM HORSE TRACKS,
TO FOOTBALL FIELDS IN TEN
YEARS, Mr. William P.
Whitehead, Minnesota Mining
& Manufacturing Inc.
4:35 - 5:00

Thursday morning, September 25
8:30 - 9:10

HOW THE GRASS PLANT GROWS &
SURVIVES, Mr, William H,
Bengeyfield, Western Director USGA Green Section,
Garden Grove, California.

9:10 - 10:00

FACTS ABOUT AUTOMATION IN
IRRIGATION. Mr. Bjorn
N. deBough, Seattle, Wash.

10:00 - 10:20 BREAK
10:20 - 11:00 THE AFFECTS OF CULTURAL
PRACTICE IN RELATION TO
MICROCLIMATE AND THATCH.
Dr. J, R. Watson, Director
of Marketing, Turf Products
Toro Manufacturing Corp,
Minneapolis, Minnesota.
11:00 - 11:35 QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION
11:35 - 12:15 ANNUAL N0RTHEST TURFGRASS
ASSOCIATION BUSINESS MEETING
12:15 - 1:15

LUNCH

1:15 - 2:30

HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO
MAINTAIN TURFGRASSES? Mr.
Charles Thurman, Horticulture Supervisor, City of
Spokane, Spokane, Wash.,
Mr. George Harrison, Manager
Malmo Northwest Landscapers
Inc., Tacoma, Wash. Mr.
Henry Land Jr., Superintendent, Sandpoint Golf &
Country Club, Seattle, Wash,

2:30 -

FREE TIME FOR SPJBCIAL MEETINGS, RECREATION, ETC,

QUESTIONS AND ANSWER SESSION
EVENING:
7:45 - 9:00

EVENING:
,:30 - 7:30

SOCIAL HOUR

7:30

BANQUET

SPECIAL SESSION
THE ROLE OF GENERAL MANAGEMENT IN THE TURFGRASS BUS(Continuod on Page 3)

FROM THE PRESIDENT'S
CORNER

promoting the Association as evidenced
by the growth in membership.
The dues of the members have been used
to foster research in the three Northwest
states and the Province of British
Columbiaf and we have had expressions of
gratitude from all of the schools so
supported. The amount used from each
member seems small, but when lumped together in community effort the results
have been rewarding.
I especially wish to extend greetings
to new members attending for the first
time, and thanks to you old members who
have supported us during my period in
office• I hope that this may be the
best conference ever held.

KEEPING UP TO PAR
By John A. Prestbo
The following appeared in the "Wall
Street Journal11 July, 1969.
(Chicago) - If
is now turning
nagging you to
take some tips
BY G E O R G E HARRISON

Welcome to our annual Northwest Turgrass
Association Conference, We are very proud
of the Association and its efforts to promote
research in turf culture. We feel that
this Conference is by far the most efficient
way of getting information to the people
who use it in the fastest way possible.
The program available to you at this year's
conference has been organized and scheduled by your board members working since
last December. We want to express our
appreciation to them for their efforts
and to the contributors who have donated
much time and study to the papers which
they are presenting. We want to thank
the management and members of the Hayden
Lake Country Club for providing us with
this beautiful setting. We expect to
enjoy the use of the golf course and we
know that Johnny Harrison has worked
especially hard to have the course
ready for us.
The growth of the Association the past
two years has been especially satisfying
to me. The board members for the past
two years have done an excellent job of

your once lush green lawn
brown ( and your wife is
do something about it)f
from an expert grass grower

Your problem might be one of 40 common
turf diseases, which Oscar L. Miles of
south suburban Chicago is always looking
closely for. This year he plans to spray
his grass with mixtures of fungicides
totaling 4,925 pounds of expensive
chemicals.
Or maybe your browning lawn needs more
water. Bach summer Mr. Miles irrigates
his grass with about 31 million gallons,
pumped through a 10-mile network of
pipes and sprinklers.
Of course, he tends a bit more turf than
the average weekend gardner. Mr. Miles
is superintendent of two 18-hole golf
courses at Olympia Fields Country Club.
He's one of the nation's estimated
5,500 golf course superintendents,
whose jobs are part agronomy and part
aggrivation. Their bosses are dedicated
golfers whose own lawns at home could be
a tangle of dandelions but who rage if
their bobbled putts can be even remotely
blamed on a stray blade of grass.
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FROM THE OREGON
COMPOST HEAP

All of us here are anxious to get to
Hayden Lake Golf Club and the Conference
so we may renew old acquaitnances. I will
bring all details regarding the 1970 Northwest Turfgrass Conference to be held at
Salishan, in early October. You can look
forward then to a complete discussion about
the facilities, room rates, and any other
information you need regarding the
conference site for 1970. I will see all of
you at Hayden Lake.

23rd CONFERENCE PROGRAM
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INESS. Mr. H, Deryck Berry,
General Manager, Capilano
Golf and Country Club, West
Vancouver, B.C., Mr, Max
Kamp, General Manager,
Hayden Lake Golf and
Country Club, Hayden Lake,
Idaho, Mr. Cliff Wagoner
Director, Golf Course
Superintendents Association
of America,
Friday morning, September 26
8:30 - 9:00
BY BYRON REED

After missing a few issues of the Turfgrass
Topics and giving you fellows a good rest, I
have decided to punish you again. It is hoped
that the Editor will punish you further by
running a picture of this writer.
For the Washington readers who enjoyed a
pleasant winter, let me take a few moments
to tell you about the Alaskan type of winter
Oregon had. Every square foot of Oregon was
covered with snow right down to the ocean
edge. Golf courses were closed for weeks
because of snow cover. In spite of all thisf
the turf people here in Oregon managed to
survive and turf conditions are generally
excellent.
A new golf club is being constructed at
Charleston, Oregon Sun River Golf Course
opened this summer and are presently
building on the second nine. A new Golf
Club is opened in Salem by the name of
iedow Land Golf Club. Tokatee Golf Club
will have finished 18-holes and ready for
play by next spring. A new golf club has
been constructed at Waldportf Oregon.
Pleasant Valley Golf Clubf East of Portland,
was opened this past spring.

9:00 - 9:45

TURFGRASSES FOR THE NORTH.
Mr. J. Drew Smith, Plant
Pathologist, Grasses,
Research Branch, Canada
Agric., University Campus
Saskatoon, Sasketchewan.
CAMPUS TURF MAINTENANCE, Mr.
George Woods, Landscape &
Grounds Superintendent,
Seattle School District #1,
Seattle, Wash.

9:45 - 10:30 REPORT OF INTERNATIONAL
TURFGRASS RESEARCH CONFERENCE & TURFGRASS TOUR
Dr. Roy L. Goss, Associate Agronomist & Extension Specialist in
Agronomy, W.W.R.E.C.,
Washington State University, Puyallup, Wash.
10:30 - 10:45 BREAK
10:45 - 12:00 RESEARCH REPORTS AND
QUESTION AND ANSWER
SESSION AND CONFERENCE
WRAP-UP,
12:00

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KEEPING UP TO PAR
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A CHANCE REMARK
Each year many superintendents have their
reputations put on the line when their
clubs host major tournaments, Thenf a
chance comment to a sports reporter by
a disgruntled pro ("I wouldfve broke
par if the greens weren't in such lousy
condition") could give their handiwork
a nationwide bad press overnight,
Golf course superintendents "are expected
to raise laboratory-quality grass under
battlefield conditionsfn says Ben J,
Chlevin, executive director of the superintendents1 national association. This
year some 11 million American golfers,
nearly 50% more than five years agof
will tromp around 9f615 golf courses
(many smaller, publicly owned courses
can't afford full time superintendents,
which explains why there are fewer superintendents than courses.) The golfers
will chew up the turf with their spiked
shoes and dig it up with their clubs.
To cope with the punishment their grass
must take, superintendents have become
a highly specialized, professional group.
Twenty years ago, when golf wasn't the
national craze it is now, superintendents
were called greenskeepers, were paid
meagerly and had no formal training.
Some of them came from farms, while others
drifted into the work because they had
a green thumb,

growing what's probably the nation1s
most expensive crop. Many plush country
clubs sprawl over land worth $50f000, or
more an acre, and in metropolitan areas
such as Chicago their superintendents
spend upwards of $100f000 a year to
maintain each 18-hole course.
With this kind of money at stake, golf
clubs aren't hiring amateurs anymore.
Many of the younger superintendents have
bachelor's degrees in agronomy or some
related subject, and a few hold master's
degrees. Many are graduates of special
turf management courses offered by a
dozen universities around the country.
The new breed of superintendent works with
soil tests and chemical analyses instead
of intuition. Some are even feeding
soil conditions into computers to help
determine how much water and what kind
of fertilizer to apply and when. Top
superintendents are paid up to $23,000.
a year, and some are provided free housing on their course.
Like many of his colleagues, Oscar Miles
of Olympia Fields is a golf enthusiast.
When he was a teen-ager he considered
making golf his career but then chose
superintendency because he saw "more
potential for advancement11 in grassgrowing than on the pro circuit. Now an
energetic 30-year old with a sand-colored
mustache, Mr, Miles plays his two courses
at least tw[oce a week "so I can see how
the course is from the golfer's point of
view," (He has a seven handicap,)

A COSTLY CROP

THICK GRASS

Today, superintendents are entrusted with

Under his watchful eye, his 36-man summer
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club's eight miles of fairway every other
day at five-eighths of an inch. He keeps

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fairway grass growing thick so that golf
balls will perch on top of the blades
instead of sinking down. That's important
because golfers lose a degree of control
of their hits if grass or clover comes
between the swinging club face and the
ball.
Mr. Miles1 greens are trimmed early each
morning at three-sixteenths of an inch,
a much shorter pile than in many living
room carpets. The tees are also clipped
daily, at three1eighths of an inchf and
the roughs are mowed weekly at three inches.
The worst enemy of Mr. Miles' 380 acres
of manicured greenery is people's feet.
He can control the damage caused by
members playing 45t000 rounds a year,
but tournaments are major headaches.
Last August 70f000 spectators flocked on
Olympia Fields' north course for the
annual four-day Western 0pent and Mr.
Miles knew the milling throng, many with
spiked shoes on, would trample his grass

Replanting it all after the tournament
would take time and interrupt members'
play. But Mr. Miles came up with a
solution. After the first day of the
tournament, he had his men spread grass
seed along the crowd's traffic patterns.
"The spectators spiked the seed into the
ground for me, and all I had to do was
water it," recalls Mr. Miles. "Three
weeks after the tournament you wouldn't
know we had anybody here."
Working with nature is the easiest part
of their jobs, the superintendents agree.
It's getting along with the club members
that can be a strain, which is why some
superintendents dream up occasional
little extras as public relations efforts.
On ladies' day at Sunset Country Club
in St. Louis, for example, superintendent
Robert V. Mitchell sets out potted geraniums at the tees and marks the cups on
each green with pink poles holding pink
flags trimmed in black lace.
^ ^ E t helps to have a tight rein on tempers,
too. One recent burth of July the Danville, Ill,t# Country Club brought in
ponies for members' children to ride.

That night somebody tied one pony to the
flag on a green. When James W# Brandt,
the superintendent, arrived at work the
following morning he found the tethered
pony had worn a trench in the green by
circling the pole all night.
The bad luch award, however, seems to
have been permanently retired by Fred
Harris, superintendent of the 27-hole
Los Coyotes Country Club near Los Angeles.
In October 196*4, he bought some fertilizer
and told his men to put it on a few
greens. Unfortunately, when the stuff
had been packaged, soil sterilants somehow were mixed in with the nutrients,
and every blade of grass on four greens
promptly withered and died.
A livid board of directors threatened to
fire Mr. Harris, but he proved with
soil tests it wasn't his fault. After
a long period of litigation involving
the fertilizer company and other suppliers,
the club was reimbursed for the damage.
Meanwhile, it took six months to rebuild
the greens.
Then in December of the same year, a
mammoth storage tank on a neighboring
oil tank farm sprung a leak and sent about
300,00 barrels of crude oil gurgling over
five Los Coyotes fairways. The oil
Company resodded the course, but with
soil that had such a high saline content
it took Mr. Harris a year to restore
the fairways to normal.
The worst most superintendents have to
put up with is vandalism, which is increasing despite efforts to increase
grounds security. Besides tearing up
the sod with drag races or spinning motorcycles, a seemingly favorite bit of
vandalism is scratching dirty words
deeply into the close-cropped greens.
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by Roy L. Goss
Poa annua control has posed a major problem to every turfgrass manager and researcher
for many years. Frequently we are asked
by practical thinking men, "Why fight it?"
or "Why get rid of it?" If managed properly
Poa annua makes acceptable turf in many
areas as well as golf course putting
greens.
One of the major difficulties with Poa
annua is that it dies out at a time when
you need it most - right in the middle
of the major playing season. Therefore,
we continue to seek better ways of manage
ing it or eradicating the entire population, Throughout the years vigorous vegetative bentgrassj varieties have been
developed in an effort to control Poa annua
but it seems as though the pest always
wins out. Other materials such as cumulative doses of arsenicals have also been
tried and is still being practiced in
certain areas. More recent development
of the pre-emergence crabgrass materials
that show considerable activity on Poa
annua have also been used. In spite of
all of these various attempts we still
have Poa annua in considerable abundance.

cut shorter than about 5/16" it exhibits
reduced vigor and develops certain problems. None of our desirable grasses
will set seedheads cut below this height.
I believe the obvious explanation then
for the proliferationof Poa annua lies
in the fact that it has a constant annual
replenishment of it£ species through
seed production. One of the attempts to
compete with this has been the practice
of overseeding with desirable bentgrassesf
bluegrasses or fescues whichever the case
may be. At least we are providing seed
for areas that may be thin with the hopes
that the desirable type will establish
as quickly as Poa annua. This, of course,
has resulted in some gain but has not
been perfect*
A new chemical has been developed by one
of the major chemical companies and is
under test at the present time, that shows
promise for reducing and inhibiting seedhead formation in Poa annua. The preliminaries such as rates, timing and other
factors of application are being worked
out at this time. Spring tests have in(Continued on Page 7)

KEEPING UP T O PAR
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Stop the Seeds

"It always seems to happen just before
the ladies1 tournament," moans one
superintendent.

Obviously one of the best ways to eliminate any species from existence is to
inhibit reproduction. It has always been
the author's contention that if we could
control seedhead formation we could
probably eliminate the plant. You don't
have to be too keen an observer to note
that Poa annua will produce seedheads
in abundance even at mowing heights under
3/16" high. Any time that a grass is

At one Los Angeles-area course, the superintendent walked out one recent morning
to find a green completely stripped of
sod. The police quickly nailed the
culprit, a nearby homeowner who had
decided his yard needed some nice grass,
"It was easy to track him down," says
a friend of the course superintendent,
"All they did was go down the street and
look for the best lawn on the block,"

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CERTIFICATION OF
TURFGRASS WORKERS
For the past two or three years there has
been a great deal of discussion about the
certification of golf course superintendents.
The reason for this is that we all know
that it takes a good many years to develop
a good golf course superintendent. However, the interesting thing about growing
grass is that it appears that everyone
can talk intelligently up to a point about
this art and science. It seems that every
homeowner, every golfer, and every
picnicker can tell how to grow good turf.
When placed in the superintendent's position, however, they find that it is
considerably more detailed and requires
a lot more background.
Certification can be practiced with
almost any group of professional or semiprofessional people. Examinations are
required for many professional people in
this world. Lawyers must pass state
bar exams. Veterinarians must also pass

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examinations for state licensing. Accountants must be tested and approved. These
people by the very fact that they have
demonstrated a proficiency in their professions have formed a stronger and more
highly professional group.
The Golf Course Superintendents Association of America has recently initiated
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dicated that a considerable reduction in
seedhead formation has been accomplished.
The material does not actually kill the
Poa annua nor the other desirable grasses.
It does injure the Poa to some extent but
the mature plants usually recover.
Initial results indicate that due to the
decrease in seedheads and vigor of Poa
annua the bentgrass populations have been
allowed to develop more vigorously and
have resulted in better stands of bent
on the basis of one year's test. This
approach, no doubt, will pave the way for
better controls of Poa annua in the
future.

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a program for certification of golf course
superintendents. These points have been
published,in the magazine "The Golf
Superintendent" and you can look them
over for yourself* This is the only way
that you will ever keep out the impostersf
the unitiated and the inexperienced. When
a golf club hires a person who is supposed
to know the business and finds that they
have hired someone who is highly incompetent it leaves a very poor impression
on the entire profession. Sometimes they
rationalize the problem by sayingf lfoh
well, perhaps the next one we get will
be no better." By certifying anyone for
a superintendent would imply that he has
had a given n umber of years of practical
experience, professional experience, is
familiar with soils fertility, diseases,
insects, machinery, managing personnel,
conducting meetings and a number of other
qualifications.
This same approach could be used very
effectively by commercial applicators
such as the ground sprayers. I am sure
that if every ground sprayer could produce
a certificate saying that he was a certified ground sprayer and had the proper
state licenses that he would place the
customer at a sense of ease since he would
feel that the man is highly qualified
and competent. There will always be a
few weak people in the profession regardless of certification programs but it will
certainly eliminate the very bad ones.
One of the most interesting things to the
writer is that a certification program
actually becomes a stimulus for greater
accomplishments by the individual. It
presents some goals for him to achieve.
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something unless there is a goal or a
reqard for achievement• Among other things
this is one of the greatest things that
certification will achieve,
Job Classification
More recently it has come to my attention
that most labor offices and civil service
boards do not have a clear concept about
the requirements for various turfgrass
managers, spray applicatorsf and other
people in these professions» Golf course
superintendents are classified in some
cities as greenskeepers. Obviously, with
this classification the pay scale is also
considerably lower« More recently I asked
a group of superintendents if they had
discussed this point with the civil service
boards or the Labor Offices and the reply
was f,no#ff The local Golf Course Superintendents Associations, the Commercial
Applicators Association, Parks Associations or other organized groups of turfgrass workers can send representatives
to these groups with job descriptions of
their personnel. These discriptions,
Ifm sure, would be heartily welcomed
and would serve as guidelines for reclassifying personnel. These guidelines
can be changed from time to time as the
responsibilities of the individual increase
But in the end the responsibility of
making these things known are up to you
and your organizations•
Additional discussions regarding certification programs and professional improvement will be discussed at the Northwest
Turfgrass Conference at Hayden Lake, Idaho
on September 24, 25 and 26 by a number
of people in the field including Mr« Cliff
Wagoner, one of the Directors of the
Golf Course Superintendents Association
of America.

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NORTHWEST TURFGRASS TOPICS is sponsored by the Northwest Turf Association and
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Any communications concerning distribution
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Seattle, Wash. 98155, or Roy L. Goss, Western Washington Experiment Station, Puyallup,
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Editor, Western Washington Experiment Station, Puyallup, Washington.

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