Superintendents Association of THE

Vol. 3 No. 3______JUNE 1980

BALTUSROL GOLF CLUB JUNE 9th to 15th, 1980 Joseph R. Flaherty, A.W. Tillinghast, the GREENER SIDE Golf Course Superintendent, Baltusrol's Architect, Baltusrol Golf Club GCSANJ Newsletter is published A Man of Many Parts six times a year by the Golf Course Joe Flaherty grew up learning about golf The very name Tillinghast has a lilt to it; Superintendents Association of course maintenance. His father was, for 30 nothing mundane about the sound; it flows, New Jersey, P.O. Box 231, New years, the superintendent at the it conjures up in the imagination all kinds of Brunswick, N.J. 08903. Manasquan River Golf Club, Brielle, New interesting traits for the bearer of such a Jersey. name. Ed Walsh, Editor Flaherty was graduated from Rutgers Albert Warren Tillinghast, architect in Michael Hannigan, University in 1964 with a Bachelor of the early ’twenties of Baltusrol’s two Associate Editor Science Degree in Agronomy. present courses - the Upper and the Lower - Jerry Schoonmaker, Photography Following graduation, Flaherty served and nearly 100 other courses all told, was Please address inquiries con­ from 1964 to 1967 as assistant course well suited to such a name. cerning advertising to: superintendent at Baltusrol under his Where other famous golf course ar­ predecessor, Ed Casey, who was the Ken Kubik, Advertising Manager chitects tend to develop a recognizable recipient of the 1977 USGA Green Section hallmark which the connoisseur can readily 489 Millbrook Avenue Award for distinguished service to golf Randolph Twp., N.J. 07869 identify, Tillinghast created each new through work with turfgrass. Casey served layout as a new invention, indeed, each for 22 years as golf course superintendent at individual hole. No two of his courses are Baltusrol and was responsible for alike; no hole is modeled on a previous preparing the club’s Lower Course for four inspiration. USGA competitions, including the 1954 and If you want further proof of this, you can 1967 Opens. visit Shackamaxon Golf and Country Club On January 1, 1968, Flaherty succeeded in Scotch Plains, Somerset Hills Country Casey as course superintendent. He will Club in Bernardsville or Ridgewood celebrate his 16th anniversary at Baltusrol Country Club in Paramus, all within an this April. hour’s drive of Baltusrol. Flaherty is a member of the Golf Course There is no knowing what further heights Superintendents Association of America “Tillie” might have aspired to in the world and is a GCSAA-certified superintendent. of golf course architecture had he not been He is also a member of the Golf Course a man of many parts and predilections. GOLF COURSE Superintendents Association of New Jersey. * He was a golfer good enough to com­ He served as president during the years pete in four U.S. Amateur Championships SUPERINTENDENTS 1978-79 and he has held every other office in and one U.S. Open; ASSOCIATION the organization. He is also a member of the * He was a golf writer and editor; of NEW JERSEY New Jersey Turfgrass Association. * He was a fine golf photographer and a Flaherty, 37, is married and has four collector of golf art; Cook College - Rutgers University children. * He was one of the founding fathers of Box 231 the PGA; New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903 * He was a golf tournament promotor Dates to Remember and director; OFFICERS OF GCSANJ * He helped foster public links golf and, Jack Martin June 9-15 indeed, laid out the four-course Bethpage President U.S. Open, Baltusrol Golf Club, Springfield, complex in Farmingdale, N.Y.; New Jersey, Joseph Flaherty, CGCS, Dennis Wagner * His interest in agronomy led him to Vice President Superintendent take an active part in championing the June 17 young USGA Green Section; James Gilligan GCSANJ Membership and Golf Meeting, Secretary * He liked the good life and the glitter of Hopewell Valley Golf Club, Hopewell, Broadway and was known to dissipate his Edward Nickelsen New Jersey, Dan McGlynn, Superin­ Treasurer wealth as an “angel” of unsuccessful plays; tendent * And Tillie indulged in classic benders, Maurice Cameron July 17 Past President some lasting as long as a month. GCSANJ Membership and Golf Meeting, Tillinghast, who grew up in Philadelphia, Picatinny Golf Club (100th An­ EXECUTIVE BOARD was an early devotee of cricket, but swit­ niversary), Dover, New Jersey, Les ched his allegiance to golf in the 1890s. He Clifford Belden Carpenter, Jr., Superintendent Director, District 1 was an international traveler and made August 6 several trips to Scotland where he struck up Glenn Gallion Rutgers Turfgrass Research Day friendships with Old Tom Morris and An­ Director, District 2 August 12 drew Kirkaldy. Robert W. Ribbans GCSANJ Membership and Golf Meeting, Tillie married early and set up house in Director, District 3 Copper Hill Golf Club, Flemington, New Harrington Park in northeastern New Dave McGhee Jersey, John Fenwick, Superintendent Jersey where he entertained royally. Director, District 4 September 19 By the ’30s, when Tillinghast was in his Jerry Schoonmaker GCSANJ Invitational Tournament, Rock fifties, he had had his fill of golf course Director, District 5 Spring Club, West Orange, New Jersey, architecture. He moved to Beverly Hills Charles Dey Michael Hannigan, Superintendent where he operated an antiques shop Director, District 6 October 7 (tentative) frequented by many of the movie stars. GCSANJ Field Day, Rutgers University He suffered a heart attack in 1940 and Stephen Finamore and Golf Course, New Brunswick, New Director, District 7 decided to move to Toledo, Ohio, to live with Jersey his eldest daughter. Two years later he died James W. Ritter October 9 Director, District 8 from a second heart attack and is buried in GCSANJ Championship, Montammy the Woodlawn Cemetery there, about two Dr. Henry Indyk Country Club, Alpine, New Jersey, Executive Director miles from the , site of the Michael Leary, Superintendent 1979 U.S. Open Championship. From the Editor's Desk Hosting one of the country’s premier sporting events is quite a challenge. Joe Flaherty and his Baltusrol Golf Club staff have met that challenge head on in the 1980 U.S. Open Championship to be held at his fine Club in June. In the following in­ terview, Joe shares his thoughts with us about the upcoming event: Editor: When did you start preparing for the Open? Joe: The changes and additions made to our Editor: How do you find your staff reacting Club were started in October, 1978. to the challenge of hosting this most Editor: What were the major changes prestigious event? made to Baltusrol in preparation for the Joe: I am blessed with what I consider to be Open? the best golf course maintenance staff in Joe: Actually, no major changes were the business. Each and every one of made. We did rebuild or redesign seven them has pride in his job, and is en­ championship tees and build a new 5,400 thusiastic about hosting the Open. With sq. ft. practice tee, but they were so much of my time obligated away projects that were being considered from the actual maintenance of the anyway. Although, being quite frank, course, it is important to have the having the U.S. Open has made those secure feeling the job is being done OH LORD, projects an immediate priority. right. Editor: Was anything done to alter or Editor: Was your experience with the ’67 Please let the golfer in his infinite change the course’s design as you have wisdom realize that You and nature Open any help this time? maintained it? Joe: Not really. So much has changed since do not always see eye to eye with Joe: With the assistance of the USGA ’67 that very few of the procedures used mankind!! Tournament Committee, we recon­ then still exist. I expect in 14 years toured fairways and paid particular things being done now will be outdated. attention to defining hazards. A 6 ft. Editor: Will having the course in the best WARNING!!! intermediate rough is being maintained possible shape for the Open be the at 2 in. to 3 in., and our regular rough is highlight of your year? Reports have been coming into this being mowed at 5 1/2 in. Trees on the Joe: Of course, we hope the conditions will publication that there is a small band of entire lower course were checked and be perfect and we’ll work long and hard superintendents, assistants, and a group pruned where necessary. New sand was to assure that they are, but two weeks sympathizer terrorizing North Jersey golf added to all lower course bunkers. All after the tournament, we host the links with their golfing prowess and our service roads were repaved, as was biggest member-guest of our season and sometimes unwanted course critiques. the Clubhouse parking area. we want the course equally good for our To date the group has been striking only Editor: As the tournament approaches, members and their guests. on Mondays, or Tuesdays after a Monday where do you find yourself spending Editor: Don’t you think your membership holiday and always between 3:30 and 4:00 most of your time? will expect a little less than you will p.m. Joe: Quite frankly, Ed, ninety percent of provide for the Open? First, reports from our own in­ my time is spent with outside con­ Joe: They might, but we wouldn’t. Whether vestigations have shown the band to be tractors - the telephone company, it be for Lee Trevino and Arnold highly organized and apparently call Public Service, contractors building TV Palmer, Golf Pros, or John Smith or Jim themselves the “Monday Strokers.” towers and communication in­ Doe, Club Members, we want our course A spokesman for the group says that stallations. Without supervision, they the best it can possibly be at all times. although he might not admit it, the editor of would wind up destroying drainage and CLOSING NOTE: The last statement Joe “The Greener Side,” was severely trounced irrigation lines without even knowing it, Flaherty made shows just what kind of by two sandbaggers belonging to the and our post tournament job would be person he is: pride in his work and pride “Strokers” during a golf match in 1979. just about impossible. in himself, the kind of pride that makes We have also uncovered evidence leading Editor: How do you find the cooperation us all very proud to say, “Joe’s a golf to the fact that certain members of the with these contractors and the tour­ course superintendent, one of us.” “Strokers” have infiltrated state nament personnel? superintendent meetings with ridiculously Joe: Fantastic. First of all, I am extremely high handicaps in order to take home fortunate to be working with two men trophies and prizes. who have given our department 150 Their area of travel has been con­ percent cooperation. Mr. Robert Potter, centrated in the Essex-Passaic County The GREENER SIDE is not a Greens and Grounds Chairman, and Mr. copyrighted newsletter. When reprin­ vicinity but the spokesman notified us that Charles Simpson, General Chairman, they are willing to meet challenges at home ting, please acknowledge the have been there whenever I’ve needed GREENER SIDE and author. or away by other individuals or similar them. Without their help and the groups: Monday Strokers rules govern all assistance of Nancy Jupp, Tournament play. Director, it could get pretty tough. My Experience A Whimsical Look Preparing for the at Golf U.S. Open “Golf is the simplest looking game in the world when you decide to take it up and the toughest after you have been at it for ten or twelve years. It is probably the only known Chimney Rock Rd. game a man can play as long as a quarter of Bound Brook, N.J. 08805 a century and then discover that it was too (201) 356-4200 deep for him in the first place. “Golf is a physical and mental exertion made attractive by the fact that you have to dress for it in a $200,000 clubhouse. It is what letter-carrying, ditch-digging, and carpet-beating would be if those three tasks had to be performed on the same afternoon in colored socks, jersey, and pants by gouty-looking gentlemen who require a different implement for every mood. “The game is played on carefully- selected grass with little white balls and as many clubs as a player can afford. These little balls cost from fifty cents up and it is SEED • FERTILIZER • TURF CHEMICALS possible to support a family of ten people • GOLF COURSE SUPPLIES (all adults) for five months on the money SKY BERGEN Steve Wirth represented by balls lost by golfers in a Assistant Superintendent single afternoon. P.O. BOX 202 Baltusrol Golf Club “A golf course is eighteen holes, seven­ CHATHAM, N.J. 07928 (201) 377-2054 As most people are aware, the U.S. Open teen of which are unnecessary and just put is run entirely by the USGA. This is the around the course to make the game har­ CHARLES WALKIEWICZ organization that sets the standards which der. A ‘hole’ is a tin cup in the center of the Vice President govern the U.S. Open. It is the superin­ ‘green.’ P.O. box 469 tendent’s job to see that the course meets “A ‘green’ is a small patch of grass BOUND BROOK, N.J. 08805 these standards. This naturally, is not an costing $1.98 a blade and usually located (201) 356-4200 overnight process, in fact, for certain between a lake and a couple of apple trees, projects work was begun two years ago. or a lot of ‘unfinished excavations’ called CALL TOLL FREE For the better part of these two years most sand traps. The idea is to get the ball from a N.J. 800-942-7706 of the preparation has been aimed at the given point into each of the eighteen holes in Out of State 800-526-3814 target date of June 1980. Hopefully, come the fewest strokes and the greatest number tournament time, the lower course will of words. A favorite expression is: ‘I think offer ideal golfing conditions. As I have you’re in a trap, I hope.’ seen it, the task can be very demanding and “The ball must not be thrown, pushed or quite hectic; and as the tournament draws carried. It must be propelled by a bunch of closer the work goes into high gear along curious-looking implements designed with the new problems which seem to especially to provoke the owner. Each arrive daily. implement has a specific purpose and While working at Baltusrol the past few ultimately some golfers get to know that years, I have seen and been involved with purpose. However, they are the exceptions. several new jobs which were required for “After each hole has been completed the the Open. Several tees were completely golfer counts his strokes. Then he subtracts rebuilt and all of our lower traps were six and says ‘Made that in five. That’s one edged and refilled with new sand. I soon over . Shall we play for fifty cents on the discovered this is one of your longer and next hole, too, Ed?’ After the final or more tedious jobs. eighteenth hole the golfer adds his score The experience which I have gained while and stops when he reaches eighty-seven. working towards the Open is Then he takes a swim, sings ‘Sweet Adeline’ unquestionably an invaluable one; with a group of other liars and calls it the however, I feel the real test is yet to come. end of a perfect day.” To me the most critical part is whether or — Author Unknown not everything runs smoothly during the tournament. Misteaks no puddles I have been fortunate to work for NO DRY SPOTS We adoid em when posible but you someone I consider to be one of the finest can still lok if you wish no syringing greens superintendents anywhere, Mr. Joe NO COMPACTION Flaherty. He always seems to be there no ball marks when he is needed, but more important, he District Reporters NO WILTING is able to relate to the crew and gets no kidding maximum cooperation at all times. 1 - Cliff Beldon, Director My association with Baltusrol and the 2 - Mike Hannigan *USEAQUA-GRO preparation for the U.S. Open are rewar­ 3 - Ken Kubik ding enough, but perhaps what has been 4 - Dave McGhee, Director most satisfying has been to see the 5 - Don Pullen AQUATROLS CORP organization and cooperation of so many 6 - Charlie Dey, Director OF AMERICA, INC. people which is necessary for the success of 7 - Steve Finamore, Director this great golf tournament. 8 - John Boyer 1432 Union Ave.. Pennsauken, New Jersey 08110 "Baltusrol Is Ready"

Above: Tom Campbell, Mechanic, has everything running perfect. Above right: Joe making last minute check. Middle: Famed fourth hole, always considered one of golf’s great tests. Below right: Club entrance, where the fun begins. Below left: Nancy Jupp, Tournament Director, serving in her fourteenth consecutive U.S. Open - all that pressure and still a big hello and smile. The first member who successfully com­ pletes and returns the Turf Twister crossword puzzle will be the guest of “The Greener Side” for dinner at the Hopewell Valley Golf Club on June 17. Submit your completed puzzle to: Ed Walsh, Editor, “The Greener Side,” Ridgewood C.C., Box 598, Ridgewood, New Jersey 07451. Congratulations to Fran Berdine who was the first person to successfully complete and return last issue’s twister and to Dimmie Moore, Craig Reinhardt and Tod Polidur who also completed the puzzle. "The Greener Side" Welcomes Our New Members Eugene G. Evans (C) Dist. 4 - Blue Ridge Peat Farm; Ingrid A. Kern (C) Dist. 6 - ProLawn Products, Inc.; Brian Jodoin (B-l) Dist. 4 - Apple Mountain C.C.; Elliot Lewis (B) Dist. 1 - White Beeches G. & C.C.; Ron Ruppert (B-l) Dist. 2 - Canoe Brook C.C.; Cliff Belden III (C) Dist. 1 - Lakeshore Equipment Supply; John Huda (B) Dist. 8-FortDix G.C.; Angelo Petraglia (A) Dist. 7 - Navesink C.C.; Melvin Summer, Jr. (B) Dist. 7 - Knob Hill C.C.

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1. Battery Power 2. Short Golf Shot 3. 67 U.S. Open Winner at 3. Form of 'N' Baltusrol 4. High CEC Soil 340 MAIN AVENUE, 7. Golfing Organization 5. Lime Raises This CLIFTON. N. J. 07014 8. Grade Shooter 6. Flaherty's Domain 201 -471-0244 9. Ribban's Predecessor (initials) 7. Fungus, Insects and Weeds 10. Regulation Strokes 9. Winter Woe! TURF EQUIPMENT 13. Plant Process 10. Bees Do It SPECIALISTS 15. Flag Pole Home (pl) 11. Weed Formation Jacobsen Turf and Commercial Tractors, Gang Mowers, Greens 16. Pesticide Formulation (Abbv) 12. Anilazine Mowers, Sweepers, Aerators, 17. Diazinon Formulation (Abbv) 14. Regulating Body Blowers, and Seeders. 19. Pesticide Formulation (Abbv) 18. The BEACH Cushman Turf Trucksters, 20. Golfers Start 19. Mother Nature's Crabgrass cure Spikers, Top Dressers, and 21. Odd Couple Personage Sprayers. (initials) (What does a clue 21. Hole Maker like this have to do with golf?) 22. Pressure Standard National, Howard, Kut-Kwick 22. Winner: 1974 U.S. Amateur 24. 1954 U.S. Open Winner Mowers. at Ridgewood C.C. at Baltusrol (first name) 23. ______Exchange Capacity 25. Percentage Pure Chemical Smithco, Giant-Vac, Broyhill (Abbv) Products 24. Pesticide Labels Other Registration Number 26. Flags Attachment (pl) Gravely Products 27. Banned Ag Insecticide 28. After Government Update Super Slurper To The Rescue Topsin M. Beats Tersan Through RPAR Imagine planting seeds wrapped in in­ The Environmental Protection Agency dividual capsules of jelled water. People has determined that Topsin M are finding many such uses for super (thiophanate-methyl) needs no additional slurper, water-jelling combinations of a restrictions currently, although EPA is still man-made compound chemically grafted to pushing for some new restrictions for cereal grain starch which can absorb up to Tersan 1991’s active ingredient benomyl. 5300 times its weight of pure water. Both chemicals were in the process known The absorbants, which were first in­ as rebuttable presumption against troduced to the world by USDA’s research registration. laboratory in Peoria, IL. between 1973 and EPA is leaning toward an extra warning 1977, are now being developed and on the benomyl label and use only in water marketed by private industry for many soluble packets. It also wants more testing uses such as control of wind erosion of soils, of benomyl. Du Pont argues that many planting grass seed, moisture-proofing users of benomyl can’t use water soluble underground tanks, and rooting flower packages for time and equipment reasons. cuttings. Topsin M’s active ingredient, John Gilmore, who works with the super thiophanate-methyl, has made it through slurper for his slurper production firm in the RPAR process without additional Minneaspolis, says manufacturers can add requirements or restrictions. EPA, other materials to the slurper when it’s however, is still checking risks of a used as a seed covering to protect the seeds metobolite of thiophanate-menthyl. against insects and diseases and break The two products are in the same down seed coats so water can penetrate chemical family and have many of the easier and stimulate root growth. same uses. Tersan 1991 is labelled for In field tests in Arkansas, seeds coated Fusarium, dollar spot, stripe smut, and with slurper to hold water increased corn brown patch. Topsin M, a Pennwalt yields by 10* , milo sorghum by 17 to 49* , product, is labelled for dollar spot, and soybeans by 18 bushels an acre, ac­ Fusarium, stripe smut, and brown patch. cording to Dale E. Behmer of a North Little Rock, AR firm. Fifty cents worth of super Looking for a foolproof diet? Try slurper returned $50 worth of increased this: Eat only when the news is cotton yields in Texas field test of seeds good. coated with the absorbant. William M. Doane, who led the research on the slurpers, said planting uses of slurpers appear to outnumber other ap­ ATAENIUS plications, and predicts that there are also A new white grub problem “less obvious future applications” not yet that is spreading rapidly. discovered. CHIP SHOTS Super slurper has already proven to have — John Ward is new Superintendent at important application for water con­ Cedar Hill Golf Club in Livingston, New servation and land reclamation. For Jersey. example, a palm tree grower reports that — Glenn Gallion of Green Brook Country he expects super slurper to help him cut his Club and Tony Bifano of Mountain Ridge $100 per-acre-per-year water bill

Proxol Country Club teamed up to have their significantly. Broadcasting a pound of the h insecticide. courses sprayed by helicopter with absorbant over 500 square feet of ground Diazinon at 2 quarts per acre for control of

SP before laying sod helps sod companies dung beetle. Glenn said total application, retain moisture in sandy soil.

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— Ed Nicholsen is gearing up for the that adding super slurper to sand can in­ State Open to be held in July at his course,

it crease the available water retained by the Montclair Golf Club. sand “to nearly the same levels as that — The Sunset Valley Golf Course, retained by a loam and a silt loam.” Pequannock Township, has been A sandy soil treated with.. .super slurper designated as the location for the 34th has about the same water holding capacity Annual State Public Links Championship. as the best of the corn belt soils,” according Thirty-two pre-qualified players will to one Iowa State agronomy professor. Stop compete in the first round on July 26. However, he adds that, while “there are — Rockaway River was the site of this situations in which slight or localized in­ past month’s Dodge Open which is the creases in available soil water would be richest annual tournament in the United highly beneficial,” complete modification States. “Jonesy” again had the course in of a sandy soil would be “prohibitively excellent condition for the golfers. expensive.” — Congratulations to Les Mickens who has been retained as golf course superin­ Reprinted from Farm Chemicals, January, tendent by the Passaic County Park DAVID J. SYLVESTER 1980 Issue Commission. AREA SALES REPRESENTATIVE

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