President’s M essage

Special Fea ture

You’ll Have a Field
Day. . .

It’s a Different World—At a Yugoslavian
G olf Course

A t the M ctGCSA Professional Turfgrass
Field Day

Tee to Green talks to visiting Superintendent Gorazd Nastran about management
and maintenance practices at the Golf Club Lipica

he dog days o f summer are quick­
ly coming to an end, and right on
their tail is the MetGCSA Profes­
sional Turfgrass Field Day.
Scheduled for Tuesday, September
the event will, once again, be held at the
Westchester Country Club in Rye, NY.
For the uninitiated, the Field Day
offers our commercial members and
representatives the opportunity to dis­
play and demonstrate their products and
equipment. For superintendents, it’s an
absolutely free educational opportunity.
No registration fees.
This year’s Field Day offers an added
attraction: two morning clinics. One is
on reel mower grinding; the other is on
turf and athletic field maintenance.
Both feature hands-on demonstrations.
In the afternoon, you’re free to visit
the various commercial booths and view
equipment demonstrations. It’s a great
way to evaluate a lot o f products in a
short period o f time.
The proceeds from this event help
support our association—and help keep
our annual dues down. But only your
attendance can make the Field Day a
success. So bring your mechanic, a
crew member, your green chairman, or
a club official. . . and have a field day at
the MetGCSA Professional Turfgrass
Field Day.
LARRY PAKKALA, CGCS
President

hen Gorazd Nastran left wartom Yugoslavia, where he’s the
Golf Club Iipica’s vodja or
manager, gunfire and bombing
17,
followed close behind. He caught two
trains—one from Postojna to Ljubljana,
the other from Ljubljana to Vienna,
Austria—moments before tanks had
destroyed the train tracks that made his
exit possible. In Austria, he hopped a
flight that his club’s only Austrian mem­
ber had arranged for him to America.
Gorazd wasn’t fleeing his embattled
homeland. He braved the artillery fire
Golf Club Lipica Superintendent Gorazd Nastran
to get what comes to most golf course
strikes a pose with his U.S. counterpart— and
superintendents in this country very
mentor— Chuck Martineau of Whippoorwill.
easily: an education in golf course man­
agement and maintenance.
With the help of Jim McLoughlin of Jim, I came into contact with Chuck
The McLoughlin Group, who he’d met Martineau at the Whippoorwill Club,”
at a European Golf Association confer­
explains Gorazd, who has been working
ence in Paris, Gorazd obtained a student for—and studying under—Chuck since
visa and became part o f what you might early July.
call a work-study program at Whippoor­
But unlike most students o f turf man­
agement, Gorazd (continued onpnje 4)
will Club in Armonk, NY. “Through

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(2 ) Member Qualifies for Orlando
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Upcoming Events

Boari of Directors

M uting Remtadar
President

Golf Meeting
Tuesday, September 24
Scarsdale Golf Club, Hartsdale, NY

Herb Waterous will be the host superintendent.
You can read his profile on the facing page.

Vice President
TIMOTHY O'NEILL, CGCS
Country Club o f Darien

Note This M uttag Schedule Change
Superintendent/Green Chairman
Tournament
Thursday, October 17
Woodway Country Club, Darien, CT

LAWRENCE PAKKALA, CGCS
Woodway Country Club

Larry Pakkala will be the host superintendent.

Secretary
JOHN O’KEEFE, CGCS
Preakness H ills Country Club

Treasurer
JOSEPH ALONZI, CGCS
Fenway G olf Club

Special Events
MetGCSA Professional Turfgrass
Field Day
Tuesday, September 17
Rain date: Wednesday, September 18
Westchester Country Club, Rye, NY
Duke Polidor Memorial Tournament
Saturday, September 21
Heritage Hills of Westchester, Somers, NY
9 a.m. shotgun start
$100 entry fee includes pretourney breakfast
and post-tourney cocktail hour/buffet

Don’t miss this golden opportunity to scan area
suppliers’ wares. This year’s special attractions inelude a Turf & Athletic Field Maintenance Clinic and
Reel Mower Grinding Clinic. For further information, contact Bob Lippman, 914-248-7476, or
Byron Johnson, 203-748-5069.
Played in memory of late Superintendent Duke
Polidor, son of Todd and Barbara Polidor, this
tourney benefits the Duke Polidor Scholarship Fund,
which has awarded scholarships for the past four
years to students in the UMass Turf Management
Program. For further information, call Joe Cipriano,
914-276-2169; Ed Gentile, 914-276-2828; or John
Currie, 914-277-4919.

Northeast Autumn Classic
Sunday-Tuesday, September 2 9 ,3 0 ,
October 1
The Quechee Club, Quechee, VT

Mark Fuller is host superintendent.

27th Annual Turfgrass Equipment,
Irrigation and Supplies Field Day
Tuesday, October 8
Rutgers Stadium and Golf Course
Piscataway, NJ

For further information, contact John Carpinelli,
609-235-0150.

Met Area Team Championship
Tuesday, October 15
Fenway Golf Club, Scarsdale, NY

Joe Alonzi will be host superintendent.

Past President
S C O n NIVEN, CGCS
The Stanwich Club
DANIEL BRETON
Silver Spring Country Club
JOHN CARLONE
M iddle Bay Country Club
MATTHEW CEPLO
W estchester H ills G olf Club
ANTHONY GRASSO
M etropolis Country Club
BOB LIPPMAN
W estchester Turf Supply
EARL MILLETT
Ridgeway Country Club
TIMOTHY MOORE
Knollwood Country Club
JEFFREY SCOn
Apawam is Club

Executive Secretary
JAN RUSSO

Too to Green StaR
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TIM MOORE

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TONY BAVIELLO
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F ran k Lam p h ier, superintendent
o f Aspectuck Valley Country Club
in W eston, C T . Frank, along with his
green chairman, Bill Sammis; green
committee member, Tom Sheridan;
club member, Gerald Proxell; and golf
pro, John Strevens, took the gross

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division o f the sectional Oldsmobilc
Scramble held August 12 at Innis A r­
den Golf Club in Old Greenwich, C T .
Their win qualifies them to compete
with 1 2 4 other teams from around the
country in the national tournament
scheduled for Disney W orld in O r­
lando, F L , O ctober 1 0 -1 4 .

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Spotlight

Herb Waterous Hosts Dual Event
eptember 2 4 , H erb W aterous,
superintendent at Scarsdale G olf
Club, will be hosting not only the
monthly M etGCSA meeting, but
also the second and final round o f the
M et Championship.
H erb came to Scarsdale G olf Club
with a degree in turf management from
Penn State— and 1 6 years o f varied ex­
perience. After graduating from Penn
State in 1 9 6 0 , he plunged right into a
superintendent’s position at Wiltwyck
G olf Club in Kingston, N Y. Three years
later, he moved to Wykagyl Country
Club in New Rochelle and, after four
years there, decided to approach golf
course work from another angle: the
golf course construction field.
Working with numerous contractors
and architects, H erb had a hand in the
construction o f M cCann Memorial Golf
Club in Poughkeepsie, N Y; the back
nine o f Back O ’Beyond in Brewster,
N Y; Richter Park G olf Course in D an­
bury, C T ; and Sports City in upstate
New York— to name a few.
In 1 9 7 2 , when golf course construc­
tion work slowed, H erb opened a Gar­
den Center and T u rf Farm , which he
ran for four years in W oodstock, NY.

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Superintendent at Scarsdale G olf
Club since 1 9 7 6 , H erb’s undertaken
more projects than there’s space to
enumerate. But among his latest— and
greatest— are a bunker renovation pro­
gram he completed in ’8 9 and the in­
stallation o f the course’s first irrigation
system, which he recently updated. H e
installed a new pump station and peri­
meter spray system for the banks around
the greens— ato keep up with today’s
demands,” H erb explains.
Working under H erb ’s watchful eye
is his son Peter, who became assistant
superintendent at Scarsdale after
completing a degree in Recreational
Land Management at SU N Y Agricul­
tural and Technical College in Cobleskill. Peter, 2 1 , is one o f six in the
W aterous family. There’s also Kathy,
3 3 ; Colin, 3 0 ; Chris, 2 7 ; Stacey, 2 3 ;
and Vanessa, 1 3.
H erb and his wife, Linda, have a
home in New Rochelle, not far from
where he lived as superintendent at
Wykagyl. In his spare time, H erb says
he enjoys— what else— an occasional
game o f golf.
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Special Feature (cont. from pg. 1)

It's a Different World—At a Yugoslavian
Golf Course
I already has experience as a golf course
from Italy, and the rest are citizens o f
superintendent. As manager o f Golf
Slovenia and bordering Croatia. But
the course is public. Anyone who has a
Club Lipica for the past two years, he’s
been responsible for the maintenance o f 36-or-under handicap— and can pay the
$ 1 8 daily green fee— can play.
the club’s nine-hole golf course— which
I f you’re an avid golfer, however,
he hopes to see expand— and its various
membership has its privileges. After the
recreational facilities, including seven
$ 1 ,1 0 0 initiation fee, you pay only $ 1 2 0
tennis courts, a quarter-acre mini golf
area for children, and table tennis.
per year, which entitles you to lessons
In Yugoslavia, a country with only
with the golf pro at about $ 1 8 per hour.
And for an additional $ 3 6 0 — the equitwo golf courses and two more under
way, Gorazd has been doing his job with
the best available training: an agricul­
tural engineering degree and experience
“ln our market, w e . . . have to im­
managing a farm— in his case, a cow
farm. But after meeting golf course su­ provise. We use the same things we
perintendents from other parts o f E u ­
use on rye or corn. But this year, I
rope and talking to Jim, w ho’s consulted
have started to work with a factory
with his golf course and others across
to produce fertilizers according to
the globe, Gorazd was certain he had a
my
recipe/ 9
lot to learn. “I was able to see that in
Slovenia we know nothing,” says
Gorazd. “We are not even amateurs.”
So with little more than the blessings valent o f 2 0 green fees— you can play
golf as often as you like throughout the
o f his “organization,” 29-year-old
season.
At Golf Club Lipica, which is
Gorazd took his 18 days’ vacation, one
close
to
the Adriatic Sea, that’s at least
month unpaid leave, and a pocketful o f
10
months.
“O ur club does not close,”
his own d in a r to foot the bill for an
explains
Gorazd.
“Maybe just for a few
educational experience that will ulti­
days
the
end
o
f
January
or February
mately benefit his club and the game o f
when
it
is
coldest.”
golf in his country.
Though the length o f the season
The Golf Club Lipica: A Look Inside— and Out
might appeal to golfers here, this may
not: “We have only one golf cart— a gift
Located in Slovenia, the northern-most
from a member— and the possibility o f
republic o f Yugoslavia, the G olf Club
having a caddy only during tourna­
Lipica opened to play in August 1 9 8 9 .
ments,” says Gorazd. That means golf­
Swiss Architect Donald Harradine is
responsible for the course’s design— and ers not only have to h oof it, they’ve got
to pull their own bags. When caddies
6 6 0 others around the world. Among
those is Yugoslavia’s first golf course, the arc available, however, they’re reason­
able. They run about $ 8 per 18 holes.
1 8 -hole Bled Golf Course, which was
Though there’s no clubhouse, there
built in 1 9 3 9 near Slovenia’s Bled Lake,
is a small building that houses what
famous the world over for its natural
sounds like a modified locker room for
beauty.
golfers and tennis players. Also in the
The Golf Club Lipica is operated by
building is a caddy room for golf bags
an organization and is part o f what we,
and club repairs, a pro shop, and offices
in the U .S ., would probably consider a
for Gorazd and a secretary. At G olf
resort. Adjacent to the course are two
Club Lipica, there is no maintenace
hotels— rather than a clubhouse— each
building— just two small garages that
with a pool; a horse breeding center,
p ro te a some, not all, o f the course’s
where tourists come to ride the famous
equipment.
white Lippizaner horses used in the
Vienna riding schools; and tennis courts.
The Maintenance Operation
Right now, the course has nearly 4 0
members. O ne’s from Austria, 10 are

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Gorazd started playing golf nine months

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ago and, in that time, has earned himself
a 35 handicap. In Slovenia, which has a
population o f about 2 million, he’s one
o f about 2 5 0 golfers. And even if you
factor in Yugoslavia’s other five repub­
lics, the statistics w on’t change much.
After all, both the country’s golf courses
— even the two under construction— are
in Slovenia.
The number o f rounds G olf Club
Lipica receives reflect its small golfing
population. According to Gorazd, if it
weren’t for the war, the club might have
had about 2 ,5 0 0 rounds o f golf. Now,
at year-end, it’ll probably total only
about 1 ,5 0 0 .
With so few rounds, superintendents
in the U .S . would find maintenance a
heck o f a lot easier. But in Yugoslavia,
where golf isn’t exactly a booming
industry— at least not yet— there are a
whole different set o f challenges.
One o f the biggest seems to be the
lack o f fertilizers and pesticides specific
to golf course maintenance. “In our
market, we are not so specialized, so I
have to improvise,” says Gorazd. “We
use the same things we use on rye or
co m . But this year, I have started to
work with a factory to produce fertiliz­
ers according to my recipe.” H e tells
them what he needs to correct the
course’s clay soil and high P H . When
Gorazd returns to Slovenia in Septem­
ber, he says he’ll take what he’s learned
about pesticides and try to work with a
factory to produce those as well.
Probably more annoying to Gorazd
than the lack o f specialized fertilizers
and chemicals is that his organization
paid good money for a semi-automatic
irrigation system— a Perot system from
Germany— that’s really never worked.
“W e have to water manually,” Gorazd
says o f a system that he believes was
poorly designed and overbuilt. One o f
the m ost notable— and costly— flaws he
cited is the system’s unnecessarily large
concrete junction boxes.
As is the case with many courses in
the U .S ., fairways at G olf Club Lipica
aren’t watered. According to Gorazd,
that’s partly because water in Slovenia is
so expensive.
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explain the generous cutting heights o f
greens and fairways. Gorazd maintains
greens at 1 /4 " and fairways at 1 3 /4 " .
Tees, interestingly, are maintained at
about the same height as ours: V 2 ".
Since Slovenia’s climate appears to be
close to ours, with summer tempera­
tures hovering around 9 5 and winter
temperatures as low as 3 0 , many o f the
grasses are similar. F o r instance, his
greens are largely poa, with some creep­
ing bentgrass. His fairways, he says, are
mostly perennial ryegrass and fescue.
Gorazd’s equipment is also similar.
H e just has less o f it. “W e have 10
machines total,” he says. “They are not
as specialized as yours.” Am ong the
recognizable manufacturers and ma­
chines he mentioned are Ransome, Ja­
cobsen, and triplex greensmowers.
The Manpower and Budget
Assisting him in his day-to-day opera­
tions, are three and a half crew m em ­

bers. “W e had a crew o f six when I
came, but in econom ic downturn, we
had to cut back,” he explains.
Right now, Gorazd operates with a
budget o f $ 1 2 0 ,0 0 0 . With that, he’s
expected to pay not only for equipment
repair, fertilizers, and chemicals, but
also nine people’s salaries: his crew
members’, the caddy master’s, the golf
and tennis pros’, his secretary’s, and his
own. Gorazd currently earns $ 4 0 0 per
month. The club also provides him
with living quarters— “a 16-squaremeter room ,” he says— and access to
the organization’s chauffeur-driven car,
but for “away” meetings only. “With
this kind o f earning,” says Gorazd, “it
is not possible to own a car.”
The Learning Experience
In his two-m onth apprenticeship with
Chuck, Gorazd says he’s picked up
numerous helpful maintenance tips and
techniques. And he’s logged them into

a notebook that he’ll refer to once he’s
back on the job in Slovenia. Among the
pointers he cited: using a tennis net to
drag and disperse clippings throughout
the fairways; seeding and topdressing
after aerification on tees and greens; us­
ing state-of-the-art equipment and chem­
icals for weed, fungus, and pest control.
H e also mentioned how grateful he
was to both Chuck and Jim for their
guidance, assistance, and many private
golf course and sightseeing tours.
Gorazd, by the way, claims he felt safer in
the midst o f Yugoslavia’s bombing than
walking the streets o f New York City.
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360 Adams Street, Bedford Hills, NY 10507
(914)666-8202 • (203)661-6755

Rent
Use this tiny but powerful digging
machine to excavate under
porches, in basements, dig
trenches, plant bushes.
This is the right tool for
digging in areas that are
hard to get to with a larger
machine. Only 20" wide,
the size permits this unit
to go through all doors or
gates and will still dig 4'
deep. The size allows
this machine to be loaded
in small pickup trucks,
mini vans or small trailers.
Well give you complete instructions, free.

Cell now for complete information A reservations.

In White Plains call:
7 6 1 - 2 9 6 2

In Brewster call:

►C anadian S phagnum Peat

The Terre Co.
(201 ) 473-3393

COMPLETE TREE AND SHRUB CARE, NATURALLY

a M icro
Excavator

(301) 335-3700
1-800-899-S0IL (7645)

All top dressing ingredients are thorough­
ly m ixed and sterilized by indirect heat in
our special process. The sand particles are
actually coated with a mixture of top soil
and peat hum us for a co m pletely hom oge­
nous mixture that will not separate during
handling and spreading.

Our trained crews are careful
on a golf course. We treat tees like
greens and greens like gold. That
is one reason five of this areas
most prestigious clubs are already
our clients.
The other reasons? We prune
judiciously using state-of-the-art
techniques. We deep-root feed
with our own organic blend. We
cable and brace with future
growth in mind. And, we will
work with your crews to be most
cost effective.
If you want a tree company
that consistently beats par, call us.

(201) 579-5656

2 7 9 * 2 2 1 1
11 Washington Place. North White Plains NY 10603

W ork Smarts

Superintendents' Source for Tough-to-Find
Turfgrass Information
f something’s been written about
a turf-related topic, the Turfgrass
Information C enter can probably
find it. F or superintendents with
tough tu rf questions— and woes— that
should be good news.
Michigan State University (M SU ) is
the site o f the Turfgrass Information
Center, which maintains an impressive
library o f information. Its tu rf collec­
tion was named in honor o f O .J. N oer,
whose personal library was donated to
the university in 1 9 5 9 .
Stocked with a growing number o f
books, journals, research reports, and
conference proceedings— not to m en­
tion such early works on tu rf culture as
H orace H utchinson’s G olf Greens a n d
G reen-keeping ( 1 9 0 6 ) and O .J. N oer’s
The A B C o f T u r f C u lture ( 1 9 2 8 ) — the
library is recognized as one o f the best
in the country.
Superintendents can tap into this vast
pool o f knowledge through the center’s
USGA-sponsored Turfgrass Information
File— better known as T G IF . Basically,
T G IF is a bibliographic com puter data­
base that’s been designed by the M SU
Library to provide access to all pub-

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lished materials on research that affects
turfgrass and its maintenance.
So if you’re wondering what to do
about the take-all patch that’s been
plaguing your greens, you can cither call
the center o r mail a request for informa­
tion published about your problem.
The center will search its T G IF data­
base, which currently holds over 2 0 ,0 0 0
bibliographic records from research
journals, such as Agronom y Jo u rn a l;
technical periodicals, such as the USGA
G reen Section R ecord and G olf Course
M anagem ent; annual compilations, such
as Agronom y Abstracts; and periodicals in
allied areas, such as Park M aintenance.
The center generally responds to
requests within 4 8 hours, and the price
o f a search is $ 2 0 , plus duplication and
mailing fees. You can also request that
the information be downloaded onto a
disk or faxed to you, but you’ll have to
pay extra for these services.
I f you’d like to search the TG IF
database on your own computer, you
can become a subscriber and open an
account with the Turfgrass Information
Center. GCSAA members pay a flat fee
o f $ 1 5 0 . That makes you eligible not

Info Alert

GCSAA Rebuts 'Toxic Fairways' Report
ave you heard? Late July, the New
York State attorney general’s office
published a report titled “T oxic
Fairways: Risking Groundwater
Contamination From Pesticides on
Long Island G olf Courses.”
As you might gather from the title,
the report is an inaccurate and mislead­
ing account o f chemical use on 5 2 golf
courses in L on g Island, N Y. Am ong its
unsubstantiated findings are that the
golf courses surveyed apply four to seven
times more pesticides per acre than are
applied on food crops— and that these
chemicals put local groundwater sup­
plies at risk.
In a GCSAA news release written in
response to the report, President Steve
Cadenelli poked holes through many o f
the report’s claims. Am ong his legiti-

mate beefs: “The report claims chemi­
cals applied on the Long Island golf
courses will enter groundwater, yet it of­
fers no scientific evidence to support this
notion. W e can d tc actual monitoring
and sampling studies that suggest there
is very little movement o f materials ap­
plied on courses— even in more vulner­
able soils than those found on Lon g
Island.”
Steve notes the Cape C od study and
studies at Cornell and Pennsylvania
State University that show golf course
chemicals do » 0* pose a threat to
groundwater when properly applied.
For a copy o f the release, or the full
“Toxic Fairways” report, you can call
M etGCSA Government Relations C om ­
mittee Chairman Joe Alonzi at 9 1 4 4 7 2 -1 4 6 7 .

only for online dial-up access to T G IF,
but also a copy o f the VuePort software
package for telecommunications, five
hours o f online time credit on the MSU
computer, a T G IF user manual, and
periodic mailings from the center on
services, searching, and system enhance­
ments. In addition, you’re entided to
price breaks on the center’s various
other services, such as photocopying and
offline printing o f database files.
You can access the T G IF database 18
hours a day, seven days a week. To go
online, you, o f course, have to meet
some minimum hardware requirements.
For instance, you should have an IBM
PC or PC-compatible system with a
1 2 0 0 or 2 4 0 0 baud modem.
You can contact the Turfgrass Infor­
mation Center with information re­
quests, questions, o r comments at
W -2 1 2 Library, Michigan State Univer­
sity, East Lansing, M I 4 8 8 2 4 - 1 0 4 8 ,
5 1 7 -3 5 3 -7 2 0 9 .

RUBICAN
IS THE ONLY
FUNGICIDE
GUARANTEED
FOR THE

• Summer Patch
• Necrotic Ring Spot
• Fusarium Blight
See your local
Elanco
Distributor
for details or call
BOB SCOTT
376-7290

( 201 )

Elanco
Area Representative
Elanco Products Company

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Patrons listed on this page are supporting our association. You are encouraged to support them.

Abbey Lane Landscaping C orp.
Brent J.C . Roubos
RT 123, Box 2 7 , South Salem, N Y 1 0 5 9 0
9 1 4 -5 3 3 -2 3 8 2

Grass Roots Turf Products Inc.

Pro-Lawn Products, Inc.

Bert Jones: 2 0 1 -6 8 6 -8 7 0 9
Ken Kubik: 2 0 1 -3 6 1 -5 9 4 3
P.O . Box 3 3 6 , M l Freedom, N J 0 7 9 7 0

Stephen M. Kotowicz
3 0 Nashville Rd., Bethel, C T 0 6 8 0 1
2 0 3 -7 9 2 -3 0 3 2

Alpine T ree C are, Inc.
Robert Mullane - Ken Clear
4 4 Slocum St., Norwalk, C T 0 6 8 5 1
CT: 2 0 3 -8 4 7 -1 8 5 5 NY: 9 1 4 -9 4 8 -0 1 0 1

G row th P ro d u cts, L td .
Manufacturers o f Liquid Fertilizers, Micronutrients
Clare Reinberger
White Plains, NY, 9 1 4 -4 2 8 -1 3 1 6

S A V -A -T R E E
Complete Tree 8c Shrub Care, Naturally
Westchester: 9 1 4 - 6 6 6 -8 2 0 2
N J: 2 0 1 -8 9 1 -5 3 7 9 C T: 2 0 3 -6 6 1 -6 7 5 5

A1 P reston’s Garage
Massey Ferguson, Sales & Service
Shelton, C T 0 6 4 8 4
2 0 3 -9 2 4 -1 7 4 7

H aw thorne B ros. Tree Service Inc.
John R. Hawthorne 8c Charlie Sicmcrs
5 Center Sl , Bedford Hills, N Y 1 0 5 0 7
9 1 4 - 6 6 6 -7 0 3 5 /2 0 3 -5 3 1 - 1 8 3 1

Shcm in N urseries In c.
Horticultural-Irrigation Supplies
Jim Hespe: 2 0 3 -5 3 1 -7 3 5 2
108 1 King St., Greenwich, C T

A rgcn to’s A nd Sons Inc.
Turf Equipment: Parts and Service
Louis Argcnto: 9 1 4 -9 4 9 -1 1 5 2
1 Prospect Avc., White Plains, N Y 1 0 6 0 7

Irrigation Systems Incorp orated
Installation, Service, 8c GC System Design
P.O . Box 6 6 , Windsor, C T 0 6 0 9 5
2 0 3 -7 2 7 -9 2 2 7

Stephen K ay, G olf Course A rchitect
4 9 5 New Rochelle Rd., Office 2B
Bronxville, N Y 1 0 7 0 8
Office: 9 1 4 -6 9 9 -4 4 3 7 H om e: 9 1 4 -7 3 8 -3 3 9 9

A tlantic Irrigation
EdSantalone
6 2 0 Commerce St., Thomw ood, N Y 1 0 5 9 4
8 0 0 -8 7 8 -T U R F

James B arrett Associates, In c.
Golf Course Irrigation Design 8c Consulting
Jim Barrett
2 0 1 -7 4 4 -8 2 3 7

Steven Willand, Inc.

Blue Ridge Peat Farm s Inc.

James Carrière 8c Sons, Inc.
Bill Carrière
7 Cottage S l , Port Chester, N Y 1 0 5 7 3
9 1 4 -9 3 7 -2 1 3 6

Tee A nd G reen Sod In c.
Blue grass, Bentgrass, 8c Blu c/Fcscu e Sods
P.O . Box 4 1 8 , Exeter, RI 0 2 8 2 2
David Wallace: 4 0 1 -7 8 9 -8 1 7 7

JcffKinyoun
Box 4 9 6 , Grcycourt Ave., Chester, N Y 1 0 9 1 8
9 1 4 -4 6 9 -2 2 8 8

Landscape Supply Com pany
Wholesale Landscape Supplies
James DeLibcro
2 0 1 -9 4 8 -7 1 7 0

T he Scotts Com pany
Area Technical Representatives
NY: Frank Marra, 5 1 6 -2 8 6 -7 7 1 2
C T: A1 Arison, 2 0 3 -3 3 6 -9 8 9 0

D ar P a r Sales
Golf Course & Tennis Supplies
Outdoor Furniture Dominic A. Richichi
9 1 4 -9 4 6 -1 7 4 3 , FAX 9 1 4 -9 4 6 -0 7 9 6

L E S C O , In c.
8 0 0 -3 2 1 -5 3 2 5
Seed, Fertilizer, Control Products, Equipment
Greg Moran: 9 1 4 -8 3 8 -1 6 5 0

T h e T erre Com pany o f N J, In c.
Byron Johnson Jr.
2 0 6 Delawanna Ave., Clifton, N J 0 7 0 1 4
Office: 2 0 1 -4 7 3 -3 3 9 3 H om e: 2 0 3 -7 4 8 -5 0 6 9

Topdressing, Peat, Humus, & Potting Soil
Gene Evans
7 1 7 -4 4 3 -9 5 9 6
Bruedan Corp.

Dave Marmelstein
P.O . Box 9 , R T 2 0 6 , Augusta, N J 0 7 8 2 2
2 0 1 -5 7 9 -5 6 5 6

D eBuck Sod Farm
L ofts Seed Inc.
For De-Best in Quality Turfgrass Sod
John Morrissey
Fine Turf-Type Tall Fescues, Kentucky Blue Blends P.O . Box 1 4 6 , Chimney Rock Rd.
Bound Brook, N J 0 8 8 0 5 , 2 0 1 -3 5 6 -8 7 0 0
9 1 4 -2 5 8 -4 1 3 1

Ton y B ettin o 8c Sons
Paving, Cart Paths, Parking Lots,
Excavation, and Drainage Projects
Tony Bettino: 9 1 4 -9 4 9 -3 3 6 2

D .J. Callahan Inc.
Dennis Callahan, Golf Course Renovation
P.O. Box 1 4 3 5 , Saratoga Springs, N Y 1 2 8 6 6
5 1 8 -5 8 4 -7 0 8 0 /9 1 4 -2 7 3 -6 5 6 8

M agovem C o.
Peter M. Moran 8c Joe Schnieder
Windsor Locks, C T
8 0 0 -2 4 3 -7 7 1 8

Tu ck ahoc T u rf Farm s, In c.
Growers o f Kentucky Blue Grass/Fcscuc Turf,
Penncross Bentgrass available at 1/ a * Height
Skip Dcubel, Sales Rep., 8 0 0 -2 4 3 -7 5 8 2

E A R T H W O R K S, Deep Aerification Services
Patrick Lucas, CGCS
81 Tomac Avenue, Old Greenwich, C T 0 6 8 7 0
2 0 3 -6 9 8 -0 0 3 0

M etro M ilorganitc Inc.
Rick Apgar 8c Joe Stahl
365 Adams SL, Bedford Hills, N Y 1 0 5 0 7
9 1 4 -6 6 6 -3 1 7 1

T u rf P ro d u cts C orp .
George Gorton, Irrigation/Al Tretera, Equipment
1 5 7 Moody Rd., P .O . Box 2 5 7 6
Enfield, C T 0 6 0 8 2 , 8 0 0 -2 4 3 -4 3 5 5

E astern Land M anagem ent Inc.

M o n tco /S u rf-S id e /Z a p !
Surfactants- Defoamers
Box 4 0 4 , Amber, PA 1 9 0 0 2
Robert Ocschlc: 2 1 5 - 8 3 6 -4 9 9 2 /2 1 5 -6 2 8 - 3 1 4 4

T u rf P ro d u cts C orp oration
Turfgrass Supplies
Ernie Rizzio - Buddy Rizzio
2 0 1 -2 6 3 -1 2 3 4

N or-A m Chemical Com pany
David J. Sylvester
Area Sales Representative
2 0 3 -8 2 8 -8 9 0 5

Valley View Greenhouse
Frank Amodio
RR 2 , Box 2 7 , R T 1 2 3 , So. Salem, N Y 1 0 5 9 0
9 1 4 - 5 3 3 -2 5 0 4 /9 1 4 -5 3 3 - 2 5 2 6

Bill Middleton
2 1 5 3 Newport Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 4 8 1 0 3
3 1 3 -6 6 2 -2 7 2 7

P artac G olf Course Top-D ressing
Kelsey Park, Great Meadows, N J 0 7 8 3 8
Jim Kelsey: 8 0 0 -2 4 7 -2 3 2 6
BiU 8c Joe Carriere: 9 1 4 -9 3 7 -2 1 3 6

W .A . Cleary’s Chem ical Co.
Robert Leslie: 2 0 1 -9 3 3 -6 6 9 6
1 0 4 9 Somerset S l , Somerset, N J 0 8 8 7 3
8 0 0 -5 2 4 -1 6 6 2

Fleet Pum p 8c Service G roup
Donald Tiedemann
100 Calvert Sl , Harrison, N Y 1 0 5 1 2
9 1 4 -8 3 5 -3 8 0 1

P .I .E . Supply Co.
Paul Roche 8c Pete Otte
P.O . Box 3 0 4 9 , Milford, C T 0 6 4 6 0
2 0 3 -8 7 8 -0 6 5 8

W estchester T u rf Supply, Inc.
Serving the Fine T u rf Profession
P.O . Box 1 9 8 , Lincolndalc, N Y 1 0 5 4 0
Bob Lippman: 9 1 4 -2 4 8 -7 4 7 6

Glenmore Landscape Service
Glenn S. Moore
RR 3, Box 1 9 9 , Hackgrccn Rd.
Pound Ridge, NY, 9 1 4 -7 6 4 -4 3 4 8

P ro fo rm H ig h Perform ance T u rf P rodu cts
Turf Seeds, Fertilizer, Control Products
N E , NY, L I: Jeff Kirchcr, 5 1 6 -7 5 3 -6 5 0 6
N J 8c South: Dave Jackson, 8 0 0 -4 3 5 -5 2 9 6

W ilfred M acD onald, In c.
Dennis D eSanctis/Jim Pclrine
3 4 0 Main Ave., Clifton, N J 0 7 0 1 4
2 0 1 -4 7 1 -0 2 4 4

Golf Course Restoration 8c Renovation
4 3 3 West Main St., Stamford, C T 0 6 9 0 2
Bruce M oore: 2 0 3 -3 2 4 -3 2 3 1
E gy p t Farm s, Inc.
Green Topdressing, Sand, Construction Mixes
White Marsh, MD 2 1 1 6 2
8 0 0 -8 9 9 -S O IL
Em erald Isle, L td .

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