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Board of Directors Board of Directors M etG C SA est 1959 President GLEN DUBE, CGCS Centennial Golf Club Vice President DAVID DUDONES Westchester Country Club Treasurer KENNETH BENOIT JR., CGCS Cover: Siwanoy GlenArbor Golf Club Country Club Secretary ROBERT B. ALONZI JR. Fenway Golf Club Past President BLAKE HALDERMAN, CGCS Brae Burn Country Club Directors MICHAEL BRUNELLE, CGCS Upper Montclair Country Club BRETT CHAPIN Redding Country Club BRIAN CHAPIN Paramount Country Club DOUG DRUGO Wee Burn Country Club STEVEN McGLONE Siwanoy Country Club VINCENT PAVONETTI, CGCS Fairview Country Club Class “C” Rep DAVID PARSON The Apawamis Club Class ‘ AF” Rep n this Issue ROBERT STEINMAN, CGCS Pocono Turf Executive Secretary SUSAN O’DOWD Tee to Green Staff A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Course Ranking System ..........2 Editor JIM PAVONETTI A Year in the Life of a Golfweek Rater ...............................................8 203-531-8910 Managing Editor PANDORA C. WOJICK Editorial Committee TODD APGAR STEVEN MCGLONE 1 Departments MATT CEPLO BOB NIELSEN LEVIN COLLI NS SCOTT NIVEN ANDY DROHEN TOM REYES Member News ............................................................................................. 9 CHIP LAFFERTY GREG WOJICK Designer Chapter News..............................................................................................10 TERRI E YOUNG Advertising Manager Spotlight ......................................................................................................14 MIKE BRUNELLE, 973-777-6710 Upcoming Events ..................................................................................... 15 TEE TO GREEN is published bimonthly by the Metropolitan Golf Course Superintendents Association Meet Your 2016 MetGCSA Board...........................................................16 49 Knollwaod RoadElmsford, NY 10523-2819 914-347-4653; FAX: 914-347-3437, METGCSA.ORG Copyright ©2016 started writing this President’s Message just before heading out to San Diego for the GIS. Going to the GIS is one of the highlights of my year. It allows me to go somewhere warm, take in some great educa­ tional offerings, kick the tires of hundreds of industry products at the trade show, meet new friends, and connect with old ones. Making this years conference all the more Glen Dube, CGCS exciting was the one-and-half-day fishing MetGCSA President trip I took to Mexico with fellow board member Ken Benoit and his father-in-law. And our Awards Luncheon recognized two This trip was on my bucket list for a long worthy recipients of our highly regarded time, and it lived up to every expectation! Sherwood A. Moore Award and John Reid Lifetime Achievement Award. Congratula­ tions, again, to Rockland’s Matt Ceplo, our MetGCSA Brings on Board New deserving SAM Award winner, and to Reid Executive Director Award recipient Rees Jones, renowned archi­ While the frenetic pace of work at our clubs tect and proponent of our industry has slowed during this much-needed off­ A special thank you to Education Chair season, MetGCSA happenings are still in Brett Chapin and his entire committee for ~ full swing. I am happy to report that the putting together another stellar program. MetGCSA Board of Directors has hired New to our Educational lineup this year ^ Mike McCall, CGCS, as our new executive was a career development seminar for as­ j director. Mike has an extensive golf course sistant superintendents, held at Siwanoy management background, having served not Country Club on January 22. The Met’s only as a golf course superintendent, but also Class C Rep, David Parson, and his commit­ as a general manager. In addition, Mike tee put together a superb lineup of speakers brings a wealth of experience in dealing who offered great career insight for today’s with the regulatory agencies in Westchester assistant superintendents. (See page 12.) I’d and Putnam counties. Watch for more on like to thank Assistant Superintendent host Mike McCall in our next issue of Tee to Josh Haugh and the rest of the Siwanoy staff Green! for creating a special day for our inaugural We look forward to working with Mike Assistant Superintendent Career Develop­ to continually enhance our association as a ment Seminar. professional resource to our membership. Please hurry and sign up, if you haven’t A special thank you to Search Committee already, for our fast-approaching Dave Ma­ Chair Blake Halderman and his entire com­ honey Two-Ball Championship Qualifier, mittee for all of their hard work and dedica­ which will be held on April 19 at Siwanoy tion in conducting the search for our as­ Country Club and hosted by Steven Mc- sociation’s executive director. Glone (profile, page 14). Grab your partner and join us for what is sure to be an enjoy­ able day of golf. Events Worthy of Mention Enjoy what is left of the remaining off­ I’d like to thank David Dudones and all of season. Springtime will be here before you the Westchester Country Club staff for know it. In the meantime, my “Gone hosting our annual Winter Seminar, held Fishin’” sign has been prominently posted this year on January 13, and for providing a on my office door! terrific venue for the day. Attendees listened to some great presenta­ Glen Dube, CGCS tions on a multitude of topics. (See page 10.) President Tee to Green January /February 2016 How does a course achieve that Top 100 ranking? The answer may surprise you. by Greg Wojick SERIALS APR 1 3 2016 MICHI8AN state UNIVEHSITY UBfWilM great par 5s in golf? Would it be an even better Europe, and North America. The panel enlightening endeavors Ive entered into par 5 if the bunkers in the driving zone had been boasts pro golfers Jim Furyk, Amy Alcott, after shifting from superintendent to indus­ left intact? Did Pete Dye err by taking out the and Justin Rose, as well as a host of renowned try consultant/business owner is course rat­ fairway bunkers in the driving zone? Is that two- architects such as Rees Jones, Tom Doak, and ing. Signing on as a Golfweek rater (one of tiered green one of the best par 5 greens in golf? Tom Weiskopf, and golf industry insiders, the three most recognized course rater Golfclubatlas.com is an online forum that including the USGA’s Mike Davis and Herb groups), I have played some of the area’s— does not formally rank courses, but it does Kohler. and country’s—finest courses, traveling host lively discussions surrounding golf Explaining Golf Magazine’s special breed of with various groups of raters who have only course architecture and other related golf rating,Joe Passov notes, “We have no specific played golf, never worked it. They’re the course topics. Occasionally, participants do criteria that our raters must follow; they tell norm. I’m more the aberration. delve into course conditioning. us what constitutes ‘greatness’ in a course. Does my experience and knowledge of This kind of focus is quite typical of the Still, among the architectural elements they golf courses influence how I rate a course golfing public—raters included. Even the consider are design rhythm, variety of terrain versus how my non-turf professional part­ raters groups I mentioned weigh course and holes, setting and conditioning, and how ners rate courses? Frequently. design and architecture far more heavily well the course tests a player’s full arsenal of I know that rankings matter to many than conditioning in their rankings. skills. Our panelists determine how much clubs and superintendents. If you ask David There are three “gatekeepers” who man­ value to assign to each characteristic.” Dudones (Westchester CC), Steve Rabideau age each of the ranking lists. Brad Klein of (Winged Foot GC), and Scott Niven (The Golfweek magazine, Joe Passov of Golf Mag­ Golf Magazine’s ‘Top 100 Stanwich Club), they will acknowledge that azine, and Ron Whitten of Golf Digest each in the World’ their clubs are keenly aware of the rankings have the ultimate say in how the lists are and how it affects their memberships. All created, and each group has a set of criteria At year’s end, with all the raters’ ballots in,Joe three are regularly alerted when raters make for not only ranking courses, but also for Passov has the difficult job of tallying all the their way to their respective first tees, and selecting their raters. Here’s what I’ve ratings and formulating a list of the Top 100 they make sure to be available to discuss the learned about each rater group and the stan­ in the World. Here, in short, is how the Golf day’s course conditions with each rater dards your course may be measured by. Magazine system works: group. For Steve, communicating with ra­ Each course that places in the top three ters is one of his yearly management goals on a panelist’s ballot earns 100 points; spots and objectives. 4 to 10 earn 85 points, followed by 11 to Knowing that many clubs and their su­ 25, which earn 70 points, 26 to 50 earn 60 perintendents strive for that Top 100 rank­ points, and so on down the list up to those ing, I thought I would shed some light on ranked 251+, which are given 0 points. Any not just the ranking process, but also the course that receives a “remove from ballot” people and organizations behind the ratings. vote has 10 points deducted. Are clubs focusing their efforts in the right Architects on the panel are not permitted place to boost their rankings? Read on. Then to rate their own original designs, and course you be the judge. owners cannot rate their own properties. Tripp Davis’s Sentiments on Rating The Makings of a Course Rater Golf Magazine panelist and Architect Tripp One thing superintendents should know is Davis, well known to Met area superintend­ that golf raters, even those on the top three ents, takes a concerned approach to the rat­ rating panels— Golf Digest, Golf Magazine, ing of golf courses.
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