sures such as buffing or fine steel age room. It's a good time to check Leather—in all cases apply a wooling the shafts to remove rust for such things as worn-out grips, good leather grip conditioner to and dirt, replacing broken or frayed loose shafts, frayed head soften and restore tackiness. whippings, dipping or spraying a whippings and wood heads which • If an club has plastic fer- coat of clear finish over a lightly need refinishing or rejuvenating. rules that are dull and scratched, steel wooled wood head, and clean- After having gone through all the they can be made new looking again ing the face grooves in both woods clubs, phone each member or by wiping them lightly with ace- and irons and paint filling them. drop him a note to obtain permis- tone. This also works on grip collar Trade-ins are not very desirable sion to repair his clubs. Most all trim rings and plastic wood club fer- commodities at many country clubs golfers appreciate this spring tune- rules, which are sometimes used in- because of the type of clientele. In up service simply because they are stead of whippings. many cases, the professional at this usually too busy to think of it on • Finally, wipe the golf bag type club will be willing to sell his their own during the off season. This clean, apply saddle soap or a spe- used clubs for what he has invested type of service is becoming more in them. Here, it is an asset to know cial lubricant to the zippers, and put popular with northern pros in - the clubs back in the bag. the present value and the potential ticular, who refer to this service as value of used golf clubs. Acushnet "winterizing" and usually charge Note: A good idea is to cover publishes a used club guide that is around $20 to $30 for a complete set the bag and clubs to protect them very helpful in this respect. The used of woods and irons and bag. Here's from dust and dirt during the stor- business can be very profit- a checklist of what usually is in- age period. The large paper or clear able and grow quite large if you cluded in winterizing: plastic bags that dry cleaners use maintain a reputation for fair deal- work perfectly for this and are only ing and selling used clubs in the • Either fine steel wool or buff a few pennies apiece. peak of condition. all shafts to polish and clean them. So, if you're ready to reach out • Replace whippings on woods for a little extra business and pro- if necessary. vide more assistance to your mem- • Clean and rejuvenate grips if bers, then you're ready for the extra THE GOLF CLUB required. repair business. It's another way to MANUFACTURERS (OR WHAT Rubber—if slick, lightly rough- pursue increased self-satisfaction and ABOUT BECOMING AN up with coarse sandpaper. more profit. • AUTHORIZED REPAIR SERVICE CENTER) Some manufacturers have es- tablished authorized repair service PITCHinG UJ€DG€ centers throughout the United SHORT States. If a repair facility is needed in your area and you write the golf manufacturers, you may be con- GAME tacted by a company representative who will usually stop in and check your facility to see if you can han- GOT YOU dle the work load and if the quality of your work is adequate. He will probably explain how many spe- DOWN? EXCLUSIVE CONCAVE SOIE DESIGN cific repair items that you would have to maintain in inventory. #001 /ROD UU€DG€ #007 /ROD UU€DG€

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Phone: 21 5-GL 9-5464 an ideal opportunity to go through the members' clubs in the club stor- For More Details Circle (119) on Reply Card Have You Created A Maintenance Monster? During the last few recession years, Have course maintenance have spoiled the golfer rotten with golf courses, especially the private expensive around-the-clock groom- country clubs, have been in a se- standards been set too high ing. Now we have the high cost mon- rious financial situation because of over the years? This Mid- ster looking over our shoulder with skyrocketing operational costs. west superintendent feels hungry fangs, and we cannot afford These operational costs have in- that with soaring costs and him for a pet anymore. creased so much that many clubs are How much can you save? Here is now having difficulty keeping their tight money, overgroom- what I did. I went over my time heads above water. ing is indeed overspend- sheet from April to October and Some have sold out to home ing. came up with these figures. Mowing builders and high-rise developers. roughs at $3.50 an hour, 700 hours Others are desperately looking to fill by Paul N. Voykin = $2,450. Mowing around greens their decreasing memberships and Briarwood Country Club and some , plus the practice , reluctantly lowering the application Deerfield, Illinois 350 hours = $1,225. Triplex around standards in order to exist. Boards tees and green and fairway traps, of directors and club management come to the rough which is also 400 hours = $1,400. Rotaries are working hard at most clubs to mowed too short and too fre- around trees, 250 hours = $875. find means of surviving for the fu- quently, but my members love it Total grooming cost is $6,000.1 only ture, without drastically cutting out that way. The fairways are mowed chose these items because they are the gracious living familiar to coun- from 5/8-inch to 3/4-inch with a strip four maintenance items which I feel try clubs. How does the superin- or two outside our fairways which I could reduce by 50 percent or tendent fit into this? we call intermediate rough. about $3,000. It would still give the Superintendents are in a serious Next example is our tees which, membership a presentable, but rut, and they are responsible for except to be level, are really not that slightly tougher and a definitely their position. They have brought important. They are mowed too fre- more interesting course. themselves to this predicament. The quently, seeded, sodded and fertil- Maybe $3,000 does not sound best among the ranks are to blame ized too often. The tee banks are like much. But we can also accom- for the situation all superintendents also mowed constantly so as not to plish other important savings in ma- face. They have set the standards look shabby. The precarious mow- chinery. I know I could save an im- too high. The problem, as I see it, is ing of fairway bunkers and the la- pressive amount on machinery over over-grooming of golf courses. We borious hand-mowing around all the years because, instead of having do too much of it. The desire to im- trees on the also devour my present two or more pieces of prove and excel in the maintenance a lot of time and expense. equipment for the four jobs I men- of our golf courses has been carried There are many superintendents tioned — rotaries, triplex, rough to a ridiculous and costly extreme. who have to contend with other and pro — I could get along with If we did less grooming, the country time-consuming, relatively unim- one piece of machinery in each cate- clubs could save money and have portant jobs, like mowing high creek gory because of less demand for more challenging golf courses with banks and cultivating shrubs around grooming. There is $5,000 more fewer headaches. I am not in any trees, over-edging of traps, pruning saved right there. Not to mention way talking about reducing the up- too high under low-branched trees saving in mechanical upkeep and keep and management of our greens and perhaps raking traps that do not gasoline. and fairways, I am only talking come in to play, mulching every leaf Also, there would be a substan- about possibly reducing the costs of that drops in autumn and mowing tial saving in having to use less fer- grooming other areas that we do so out-of-the-way areas that really do tilizer and pesticides because the diligently maintain now. not have to be groomed at all. I grass would be longer and therefore At Briarwood, we mow our found this out a couple of years ago be stronger and better able to cope greens at a tight 3/16-inch and our when I left unmowed all season two with the elements with less atten- widebent collars at '/2-inch or less. acres on the remote west side of my tion. Traffic damage by carts would Our sloping aprons that meet the course. No one complained. In fact, definitely decrease. And keep in fairways in the front are cut at 3A- no one even noticed. mind that I chose only four items inch and then we use a triplex It is becoming too expensive to that I can reduce easily by a full 50 mower to mow around the traps and maintain 160 acres like our own percent. There are many other main- the back mounds of the green. This back yards. The machines are going tenance aspects that can be reduced is all accomplished before we even constantly from day to night. We to page 42 with just one hand

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If it is to continue serving its mem- bers to the fullest, the Club Man- agers Assn. of America must achieve a conscious future rather than mere- ly drift into one by reaction, accord- ing to John R. Simmons, newly elected CMAA president. The 54-year-old manager at Tacoma Country and Golf Club in Washington was chosen president at the association's annual conference in Vancouver earlier this year, and has wasted no time in setting con- crete goals the CMAA can work for to plan for the future. "My theme for the year is 'Let's Take a New Look,' " Simmons told GOLFDOM with his British accent. "What I am trying to say is that this is a good time to sit back and evalu- ate our trends and procedures we have developed over the years. This is a good time to reevaluate what we

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CUSHMAN OMC-Lincoln, a Division of Outboard Marine Corporation, 4123 Cushman , P.O. Box 82409, Lincoln, NB 68501 PLANNED FAIRWAYS this. First, I needed a strong grass to compete with the goosegrass in the summer. Second, I needed another strong perennial grass to compete DEPENDABLE with Poa annua in the winter. When I started my Bermuda program I had a tremendous amount of success until I experienced some hard UNDER STRESS winters. After awhile it became frustrating because I would lose all my north slopes about every other winter. Also, spring dead spot was Fairways are fine until the First wave of 90° weather hits, says rapidly becoming another serious George Thompson, superintendent at Columbia Country Club, problem." Bethesda, Maryland. With a planned fairway program, now he is To counteract the spring dead ready for extreme weather and other stress periods. spot, Thompson increased his spring and summer nitrogen to force the Golfers take good greens and tees be syringed and the whole course Bermuda to cover over. By using ad- for granted. Greens and tees are watered in one night. The super- supposed to look like pictures, and intendent sells the club on another ditional nitrogen he feels he was on most courses they do. This is $5,000 for fairway fungicides and making the turf more susceptible to generally not the case with fair- this also improves the fairways. the disease. He said in 1968 his 12th fairway was about 25 percent killed ways, and the golf course superin- Also, of course the superintendent from spring dead spot. He said he tendent has much room for im- keeps up on modern technology, he had not treated this fairway for provement in this area, according to is on a winter nitrogen and iron pro- goosegrass George B. Thompson, super- gram, his equipment is up-to-date and by the middle of July intendent at Columbia Country and he is using insecticides and her- the goosegrass had taken over the spring dead spots completely. In the Club in Chevy Chase, Md. bicides to their best advantage. spring of 1969 he was determined to "In our area anyway," Thomp- "However," Thompson said, prevent this goosegrass invasion son told GOLFDOM, "it is easy to "all of this will not guarantee good again so he treated the fairway with take a defeatist attitude and blame it fairways. You cannot buy good Poa bensulide. He had no goosegrass on the transition zone. I don't know annua fairways. Each fall you try to that summer. However, instead of how many times I have heard incorporate some of the new circles full of goosegrass, he had phrases like, 'we haven't had any 'Cadillac' bluegrasses, you aerate circles of dead grass. The bensulide fairways in 40 summers, so why and thatch and spread $5,000 worth inhibited the Bermuda stolons so should this one be different?' or 'no of seed. Then in two weeks the fuzz much that they did not move more one can grow grass in this area, the starts coming in rows and next year than one or two inches all summer. cool-season grasses die in the everything is going to be different, summer and warm-season grasses right? Wrong. The young seedlings "I applied 14 pounds of nitrogen die in the winter.'" are Poa and we will be lucky to get per 1,000 square feet on this fair- Thompson said that in his area $5 worth of seed up, let alone $5,000 way to no avail," he said. "In the most courses were originally planted worth." fall of 1969 I revised my game plan and decided to plant the entire fair- to bluegrass and red fescue mixes. Thompson said the only way way to Manhattan rye. We planted He said with these mixes, the super- superintendents are going to have this fairway Oct. 15 at 60 pounds per intendent has about five to 10 years any degree of success on bluegrass acre in one direction. About 60 to 70 of good fairways depending on man- or bentgrass overseeding is by doing percent of that original planting is agement. Eventually, fusarium something radical by way of rosium gets a foothold and the high- still maintaining itself to date, es- scorched earth with Paraquat or pecially in the spring dead spot nitrogen program forces out the Daconate; or tricalcium arsenate fescue. Goosegrass quickly fills in areas. Since then I have worked and ease it out a little more subtly. Pennfine and Manhattan into all my the high droughty areas which "Some other alternatives may be Pre fusarium took out, and Poa annua fairways and the results have been San, Poa San or two or more appli- gratifying." gradually starts to fill in the low, cations with other pre-emergences," According to Thompson, some shady areas. Thompson said. "Or you may advantages of the new perennial ryes "When Poa and goosegrass get a decide Poa annua is great for 10 are: foothold," Thompson said, "you get months a year and hope that you get • germinate in three to five desperate and are willing to try any- a summer like I had last year more days, compete strongly with Poa an- thing. The members are unhappy. often and try to live with it. nua and overwhelms it eventually Your fairways were great until the "The method I have been suc- • has finer leaves, forms better first wave of 90-degree weather hit." cessful with is none of these," sod than old ryes What can a club do to improve Thompson said. 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-JL HERCULES INCORPORATED Turf and Horticultural Products, Wilmington, Delaware 19899 Million Dollar Stocked to the Rafters West Hills' pro shop is not your make the trek to West Hills, you'd what to buy or how to get started, standard Horatio Alger story. Four- find a supply of headcovers in a but through hard work and a trial- teen years ago, the Evanko family kitchen, bags in an attic, carts in the arid-error attitude, the shop began took 15 sets of clubs and started a fruit cellar and $25,000 of assorted to stockpile merchandise and get a shop, that just last year, grossed merchandise in a laundry room. name in the area, but even that over $1-million in sales. "We use all the available space wasn't easy. Situated in suburban Pittsburgh we can get," said Bob Evanko, "We have always dabbled in a in what brother Bob Evanko terms, "And we need it, there is just so small amount of local advertising "the deep woods", West Hills has to much here." How everything got and it wasn't any different when the be one of the largest operations in there started in 1961, when Bob and course got started. We got some the country. Its inventory bears this his twin brother Dick and their posters printed up and went around out. other brother James pooled their to about 75 stores, asking if they For starters, the shop carries a savings to build their parents a par- would put them up, so people would standing inventory of between three course from an old farm they know where we were," Evanko said. $200,000 and $400,000. There are a owned. Besides the poster parade, the 1,000 sets of clubs, 2,000 pairs of Working seven days a week, course took ads out in the local daily shoes, nearly 1,000 golf bags and 1,- often 14 to 16 hours a day, for two newspapers. 000 dozen balls. years, the family built the course. To say that West Hills is Those mind-boggling numbers All three of the brothers worked crammed with merchandise would are distributed in five separate part-time on the project, since their be an understatement. A look buildings that the Evankos use to full-time jobs as civil engineers filled around the premises will provide a store their merchandise, a couple of a regular part of their days. customer with just about every which are family residences. Eventually, the project was com- brand of club on the market. There Initially, there is a pro shop that pleted and the pro shop evolved. At are 31 in all and 48 different models. covers 900 square feet, but if you first, the brothers were unsure about If a customer finally makes up