MICHIGAN & BORDER C ITIE S GOLF COURSE SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT BURROUGHS FARM GOLF CLUB 5341 Brighton Road GEORGE W. PRIESKORN Brighton, Michigan 48116 Off. 227-1381, Res. 229-9437 VICE PRESIDENT CLEM WOLFROM DETROIT GOLF CLUB Bloomfield H ills, Michigan 48013 Off. 345-4589, R es. 338-6375 SECRETARY-TREASURER 530 Kendry Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan 48236 20740 Marter Road ROBERT HOPE, CGCS THE LOCHMOOR CLUB Off. 881-8112, Res. 884-8684 BOARD OF DIRECTORS JAY DELCAMP GOWANIE GOLF CLUB ROGER GILL 1894 Alton Circle 19957 Great Oaks Circle South Mt. 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He’s a super person to talk with. 0 R T H R U P, K I N G & CO. BOX 959 • MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA 55440 *P.P. 3150 Research Report on Ataenius spretulus A GRUB PEST OF GOLF COURSE TURF our understanding i Dr. Harry Niemczyk and Gerald Wegner, Department of Entomology, Ohio A gr ¡ c u l t u r a l Research and The research program on Ataenius , Development Center, Wooster, Ohio. two major areas of spretulus has emphasis: (1) research to establish life cycle, and (2) the the annual evaluation and development of methods and materials for control. The key to : developing ways and means of control­ ling this insect now and in the future, rests with the details of its life history. This is a task which requires that one literally live with the insect for two or three years. The challenge of this part of the research program has been accepted by Mr. Gerald Wegner, graduate in Entomology, at The Ohio State University. Gerry comes } to Ohio State University from Lake Forest, received his \ Bachelor of Science degree in Biology in 1973, and Master of Science in Biology in 1975 from Loyola University in Chicago. Gerry will write his doc­ torate dissertation on the biology of Ataenius as partial fulfillment of his requirements for receiving the Ph.D degree. Illinois. He student LIFE HISTORY Observations in Ohio indicate that the insect overwinters as an adult under leaves and other litter found in outlying areas around the golf course. The adults return to the golf course starting in late March and continuing through April and early May. During this time numerous adults are seen on golf greens. On warm evenings (4-6 p.m.) swarms of adults can be seen flying over the turf. Egg laying begins in Early May and continues through mid-June, when clusters of 9-10 can be found in the or thatch immediately the beneath thatch. From June to the mid-July, larval populations are high and wilt symptoms common in heavily infested fairways. soil MIDWEST TURF FIELD DAY 26 SEPT. 77 PURDUE UNIVERSITY LAFAYETTE, IND 47907 W.H. DANIEL & R.P. FREEBORG A good supervisor is a guy who can step on your toes without messing up your shine. ( S cotts) P r o T u r f Helping the superintendent through turf research... ■ Controlled Release Fertilizers ■ Fertilizer/Pesticide Combinations ■ Fungicides—Herbicides—Insecticides ■ Soil Testing—Weed & Disease Identification s c o t t s • l e l y • g a n d y s p r e a d e r s Finest quality turfgrass seed-Fairways • Greens • Tees • Roughs Scotts Windsor and Victa blends Steve Dearborn Technical Representative 6152 Cold Spring Trails Grand Blanc, Mich. 48439 Telephone: 313/695-2738 Present and Future Changes in Golf Course Maintenance The goal of producing and main­ taining the best possible turf for golf remained constant has through the years but the tools and techniques used in maintenance have constantly changed and continue to do so. We are well into the age of mechani­ zation, automation and specialization. As with almost all professions, the apprentice has been replaced by the student. The apprentice often worked for a small income or none at all to learn a trade and he was prone to learn pat answers from the master tradesman or craftsman for handling routine situa­ tions and only a few unusual problems. He learned from experience, which is a harsh but usually lasting method which will never be totally replaced. The student first gains a background in fundamental through education which applies to formal almost all situations. Upon completion of the formal phase of his education the student is employed at a reasonable wage so that he may complete his technical to practical situations. apprentice Briefly learns from experience and the student gains experience while learning. The Greenkeeper has given way to the Golf Course Superintendent or Turf Manager, and the Agronomist or turf specialist has arrived on the scene as a necessary part of our changing technology. The Greenkeeper was usually a successful The Golf Course Superintendent is a professional businessman. Turf management per se may be only a modest portion of the duties ascribed to today’s successful Golf Course Superintendent since a large portion of his time is consumed knowledge stated, apprentice. principles the is with purchasing, personnel manage-' ment, equipment maintenance and repair, bookkeeping, irrigation design, installation, maintenance and use, landscape architecture and building maintenance to name a few areas in which he must have a working know-i ledge. He also likely to have a respectable golf handicap. Because of these divergent areas of responsibility it is therefore improbable that the Golf Course Superintendent will be able to maintain more than a good working knowledge of all of them f and will need to rely on a specialist beyond that. Research is vital to the continuing progress of turf management and toi develop acceptable answers to new and more complex problems that arise from day to day as our technology improves. Between basic research and the practical application of the information there usually must be a it yields, catalyst. This is usually called an Agronomist and he functions to collect, evaluate and disseminate Continued on Page 8 catalyst SCHEDULED MEETINGS -1977 • August 2, 1977 Burroughs Farms • August 23, 1977 Meadowbrook Country Club • September 12 or 13,1977 Forest Lake Country Club • September 19, 1977 GOLF DAY • October 4, 1977 Maple Lane Golf Club • October 25, 1977 Rochester Golf Club A Great New Product From Ross Daniels... A Great New “Labor Saver” For You... ROSS IteeGARD It's a great Labor Saver.” Snaps on-snaps off in seconds. Reuseable and protects from season to season. Ross TreeGards: P r o te c ts a g a in s t s u n s c a ld , y e t a llo w p ro p e r v e n t ila t io n . P r o te c t te n d e r b a rk fro m r a b b its a n d o th e r ro d e n ts t h a t e n jo y e a tin g n e w g r o w th . 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How­ ever, no matter what level of formal education has been completed by the turf manager there is a basic need for information which can most effectively be supplied by a specialist. The cycle is complete only if there is a flow of turf management informa­ tion from the research effort through the practical utilization phase and back again. individual who assumes that The this cycle can be effectively short circuited simply has not been exposed to or realized the value of each state through which information must flow in both directions at all times. A glimpse of the future might reveal some superior plant materials,! soils, better diagnostic synthetic turf diseases as well as : aids for in general, disposable and/ problems or recycable machinery and parts, totally computerized maintenance operations as well as golf course environments. that will thing probably remain intact is the goal of the best producing and maintaining possible turf for golf and the dedica­ tion of the individual coping with the challenge. (This presentation made by Holman Griffin, NGF’s Staff Agronomist and Southwestern Regional Director, at NGF’s semi-annual staff meeting.) the only About THE NEW 1978 Cushman Radial Frame Runabouts The new 1978 Cushman Radial Frame Runabouts are offering golf in Turf- course superintendents and work crews new dimensions Truckster serviceability, durability, and performance. 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Remove four srews in the rear deck for total access to battery/electric system. Six screws remove the entire dash and expose all gauges and controls. Available Models: 12 hp 3-Wheel Runabout 18 hp 3-Wheel Runabout GOLF CAR DISTRIBUTORS 1980 W. Wide Track Drive (U.S. 10) Pontiac, Michigan 48058 Phone: (313) 338-0425 Who In The W orld Put The Hole There! By FRANK D. TATUM , JR. Member, U.S.G .A. Executive Committee instant, interest accentuate The Open had reached its most dramatic moment. As Jack Nicklaus crouched over an eight-foot putt on the 12th green at Pebble Beach, Arnold Palmer hunched over an eight-footer on the 14th. Nicklaus needed his putt for a bogey 4, Palmer needed his for a birdie 4, and if Arnold made and Jack missed, Palmer would lead the Open by a stroke. Both tapped their putts at about the same and both putts ran practically straight at the hole. As everyone with any in these things knows by now, Nicklaus holed and Palmer missed, and Jack won his third Open. What some spectators found a bit unusual, or unexpected, was the paths of these putts. They had not expected them to run so straight. Their exper­ ience with other tournaments had conditioned them to expect holes to be cut in hillsides, behind bunkers or next to creeks, in places where only a lucky putt goes in or a lucky shot ends up in birdie range. They came prepared to condemn the man who put the hole there as some kind of a fiend. They should not. He deserves not condemnation but pity. He is up before daylight, ready to start setting the holes as soon as light will permit. His early start expresses his concern that the players with the early starting times will have an equal opportunity with the late starters to see how the course is set up. He struggles with intense care to get it right. If he succeeds, he is blissfully ignored; if fails, recognition is he immediate, i universal, bombastic and blasphemous. I do not seek sympathy for these men. Theirs is a vital function. They can emasculate a great design, or they can greatness. To its assume such responsibility necessarily includes accepting its consequences. Like bad art, there is too much bad pin setting afflicting the champion­ ships the art and the science of locating the holes so as to I bring out all the qualities of the course on which they are played. Hopefully, the principles applied by the U.S.G.A. will be useful to others who squint into the rising sun hoping to find that small plot of good grass and terrain in the right part of the green for that day’s play. is to be fair. Never pick a placemat that will not fully reward the properly struck shot Continued on Page 13 No synthetically produced fertilizer can compare with The first principle to combine MILORGANITE Golf Courses Use More M IL O R G A N IT E «»; Than Any Other Fertilizer TERMINAL SALES CORR 12871 EATON AVE. DETROIT, MICH. 48227 (313) 491 -0606 TORO S A N D P R O It's proved it 's a “ p r o " in the tra p s. 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COUNTRY CLUB products are designed for the professional and sold by your local distributor. Try them - you’ll know it’s truly the COMPLETE PRODUCT LINE Sold by: James L. Camp (219) 4 8 5 -6 8 2 8 ARE YOU INTERESTED IN JOINING THE MICHIGAN AND BORDER CITIES GOLF COURSE SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION? Fill in the questionaire below and mail to: BOB HOPE The Lochmoor Club 20740 Marter Road Grosse Pointe Woods, Mi. 48236 Off. 881-8112, Res. 884-8684 N A M E O F I N T E R E S T E D P E R S O N D A T E ______ M A I L I N G A D D R E S S _______________________________________________ C I T Y _______________________S T A T E _____________ Z I P ____________ Or y o u m a y c o n t a c t th e n e x t g o I f c o u r s e s u p p l i e r w h o c a l l s o n y o u a n d g i v e h im t h e in f o r m a t i o n n e e d e d fo r a p p l i c a t i o n . Who in the World Cont. played from the right position. The hole setter, therefore, must not only appreciate the design of the hole, but he must also weigh such factors as weather, wind direction, and firmness of the turf, and determine in advance how that particular hole will play on that particular day. He must have done some planning. In a four-day champion­ ship, for example, this means he must have analyzed the course and generally determined the four areas on each green providing hole locations appropriate for the particular tournament. He must then plan his practice round settings so that those areas will be preserved for tournament play. He should set up a balanced course for each day’s play. A common error is to set up the course to play progres­ sively more difficult each day by using all the easiest pin placements on the first day and proceeding pro­ gressively to all of the most difficult settings on the last. This tends to 1, the course, at last days. distort least on the first and In a four-day the U.S.G.A. will championship evaluate each of the four areas pre­ planned for each green, rating the most as difficult the easiest 4 and assessing a 2 and a 3 for the inter­ mediate areas. Each day’s setting process to avoid involves planning something like an “ 18” course (i.e. 18 number 1 settings) on the one hand, or a “72” course (i.e. 18 number 4 settings) on the other. The optimum for each day would be a “45” course, and the effort each day is made to get as close to that number in the total course settings as conditions that day will allow. There are other balance factors to be considered, such as avoiding too many left side, right side, front or rear settings sequentially. After a particular area has been selected for a placement on a given green, care must be given to picking the right spot. Here too a number of Continued on Page 15 t u u l H i u n ir t i 56 The Highest Concentration of Slow Releasing Turf Nutrients 32% Nitrogen + 24% Sulfur 32-0-0-24 in a SINGLE Prill D O It's ''C ontrolled" release N from Sulfur Coated Urea STAtCARD GOLF P r n -L fn e K ? " I PI Premium Fertilizers by D I S T R I B U T O R S •H U S R if C O R P O R A T IO N LOFTS Lofts Pedigreed Seed, Inc. 7“ @RA8S-CISIL1Jt ßAVDM© TR EES-SH R UB S Wholesale Introducing Nothing runs like a D EE R E ” First in Quality FDS FERTILIZERS 5324 W. Bloomfield Lake W. Bloomfield, Mi. 48033 Phone: (313) 681-9336 Guarantee up to IO” Dia. Trunks. T R & E S GOLF COURSES ARE OUR SPECIALTY! 817 Pleasant Grand Ledge, Mich. 48837 General Manager Gregory H. Dent Office Ph. 517-627-9155 too, Who in the World Cont. should be weighed. The i factors U.S.G.A. recommends at least 15 feet between the hole and green edge. Ideally, for a radius of 3 feet around the hole there should be no changes of { slope. This does not mean that such 1 area must be flat; it rather means that ; there should be no change in the angle I of slope over the area. The angle of is an ! slope, important factor. There have been instances where holes have been set on slopes so | severe that as the green dried out it would not hold a ball. One occurred in a recent regional amateur competition where one contestant 7-putted (!) a green and the tournament winner took 4 putts there. The area around the hole should be as free as possible of ball marks, | other blemishes and changes in grass s texture. is right around the hole where the ultimate action takes place; I the particular spot should be selected to setting with commensurate care. The location should “ look” right. Care should be taken avoid placements which from the player’s point of view, present a distorted picture. Golf is a visual game, and the ultimate vision is of the location of the hole. To assess the player’s point of view, the person the hole should bring along a putter ( and, hopefully, a reasonably representative stroke) to roll the ball at the selected spot before the hole is cut to assure that it will, in fact, play properly.) Perhaps pity is not what the poor pin setter deserves. He experiences the quiet beauty of a superb golf course shimmering in the early morning light. And if he does his job properly he will have planned and worked and placed the hole so that it will add the final touch to the artistry of the course designer and of the shot-maker; so doing should be deeply satisfying. It T*BURF CRASS FORE-PAR MANUFACTURING CHICOPEE MANUFACTURING CO. 3M ENVIRONMENTAL PRODUCTS AGRICO FERTILIZERS FOX VALLEY MARKING SYSTEMS E. I. DUPONT ACTI-DIONE PRODUCTS VELSICOL CHEMICALS CONTAINER DEVELOPMENT CYCLONE SEEDER COMPANY MALLINCKRODT CHEMICALS 0 TURFGRASS, INC. Phone: Area 313 437-1427 ENGINEERED RAIN Turf A FACT! 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Healy II spoke at more than 200 meetings r ecen tly industry meetings, union meetings, committee meetings - and at many of them he told the story of the Empire State Building. The story takes only a few paragraphs, , but it packs a wallop. Healy is the l handsome, third-generation builder from Wilmington, Delaware, who is a past president of the Asso­ ciated General Contractors of America. Every time he spoke, the contractors who heard him went home j with to restore a sense of balance to their deeply industry. For, they took with them the story of the Empire State. The world’s greatest skyscraper broke ground on January 22, 1930. At | employment, 3,400 men were peak working to erect 60,000 tons of steel, to lay 10 million bricks, to install 70 miles of water piping, and to connect 3,500 miles of telephone cable. The 102 stories went up at an average of four-and-a-half stories per week. On May 1, 1931, just one year and 98 days) later, President Hoover dedicated the building and tenants moved in. structure today, says Healy, would require three to three- Continued on Next Page LAKESHORE The same E Q U I P M E N T & S U P P L Y C O . D I S T R I B U T O R & F O R M U L A T O R GRASS SEED - FERTILIZERS INSECT! Cl DES-FUNGI CIDES-HERBICIDES REPLACEMENT MOWER PARTS REPLACEMENT TIRES LESCO Products E N G I N E E R E D R A I N S p rinkler Irrig a tio n S upply Co. A division of A.J. Miller Inc. 1316 No. Campbell Rd. Royal Oak, Mi. 48067 Phone (313) 398-2233 Chicago Sales Office/Warehouse 1738 Armitage Court, Addison, III. 60101 (313) 629-7730 P r i c e Q u o t a t i o n O n R e q u e s t C A L L O U R N E W O F F I C E 300 So. Abbe Rd., Elyria, Ohio 44035 (216) 323-7544 M I C H I G A N C U S T O M E R S Call Toll Free: (800) 321-7423 Work Ethic Lost Cont. and-a-half years to complete. 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