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GCSAA, PGA Tour Join In MAINTENANCE BRIEFS GCSAA, PGA Tour Join In K-State's pioneering curriculum to start superintendents en route to management By MARK LESLIE facility for golf enthusiasts..." RELATED STORY, PAGE 28 ANHATTAN, Kan. — A new It will provide "unique research and breed of college curriculum, academic opportunities for K-State 18-hole championship course, nine-hole Mone that opens management researchers and students," said Bob teaching layout and driving range. avenues to future golf course superin- Krause, K-State's vice president for While faculty, Audubon International tendents, will begin with construction institutional advancement. and others draft environmental study of a prototype Tournament Players "We have the opportunity to make proposals, it is the education element SAHALEE STAFF BUILDS WEB SITE Club (TPC) university course at Kansas something very special happen — that particularly sets Colbert Hills apart SEATTLE, Wash. — With the 80th State University here. something that will have a lasting as far as turfgrass students are con- PGA Championship three months Colbert Hills Golf Course, named for impact on the world of golf and en- cerned. away, the Sahalee Country Club main- PGA Senior Tour player Jim Colbert, hance the golf program at the univer- Assessing members' needs when he tenance staff has developed a web site will be many things to many people. sity where I began my career," said arrived as GCSAA chief operating on the Internet: www.sahalee.com. "The positive impact of this project Colbert, who donated $500,000 and officer in 1994, Joe O'Brien recalled 'The entire ... staff will be far-reaching," said Stephen raised millions from friends toward the superintendents said "one of the easiest has worked very Mona, chief executive officer of the $10 million facility. things they did was grow grass. One of hard on the web site," Golf Course Superintendents Associa- 'The university will use the course to the most difficult was to explain it and said superintendent tion of America (GCSAA), "a golf train turf students how to manage, so justify it from a business perspective. Tom Wolff. "We management program to train that they can aspire upwards if they Couple that challenge with the fact that know this is going to tomorrow's leaders, a research facility want," said Jeff Brauer of GolfScapes in so many facilities — especially those in be a great experience for all of us, host- to aid the golf industry, and a first-class Arlington, Texas, who is designing the Continued on page 20 ing a major championship, and it was the feeling of the crew that many people would be interested in the comprehen- Canadian sive information listed on the web site." The site covers history, staff, the 1998 scientists shed PGA Championship, construction, equipment, weather, mowing, irrigation, light on roots turf, landscape and a fact sheet. Wolff ON TH€ GREEN can be called at 425-868-1600. and microbes By PETER BLAIS PGMS, GREEN EXPO PLANNED Roots and microbes is a marriage NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The 1998 made in heaven that can only lead Conference of the Professional to healthier putting surfaces, ac- Grounds Management Society cording to a study funded by the (PGMS), coupled with the Green In- Canadian Turfgrass Research Foun- dustry Expo, is dation (CTRF). planned for Nov. The CTRF is a coalition of the 14-17 at the Royal Canadian Golf Association, Opryland Hotel Canadian Golf Superintendents and Convention Association and seven regional Center here. Fifty The 8th hole at Cedarbrook Golf& Country Club. turfgrass foundations. With match- educational sessions are planned. For ing government grants, the coali- more information, people may contact tion raised $768,000 between 1993- PGMS headquarters at 120 Canada's new president 97 and funded 10 projects at five Cockeysville Rd., Suite 104, Hunt Val- different Canadian universities and ley, Md. 21030; telephone 410-584-9754. sets goals for profession facilities. Dr. Brian Holl of the University PEST ACTIVITIES A CALL, OR FAX AWAY By PETER B LAI S his two brothers-in-law, one a golf of British Columbia was one of three AMHERST, Mass. — The University Becoming the 30th presi- pro and the other a turf industry researchers who discussed their of Massachusetts Extension's Land- dent of the Canadian Golf student, he left agriculture and at projects during the recent CGSA scape Message, a toll-free phone mes- Superintendents Asso- age 16 got his first golf course job annual conference in Calgary. Holl's sage which provides weekly regional ciation (CGSA), mowing the on former CGSA President speech was titled "Life in the Un- updates on cultural and pest activity, is 18th green at St. Andrews, mar- CU$ Tom Johnson's summer derworld — Roots and Microbes." now available in a Faxed version. The rying a wonderful woman and grounds crew at Carling Lake "On greens," Holl said, "we take Extension reports that subscribers will having a family — these are goals re- Golf Club in Pine Hill, Quebec. Johnson the photosynthetic area and cut it receive about 20 messages per year, cently elected CGSA President Doug became young Meyer's mentor and the down as close as possible to the including weekly during the growing Meyer has met. newly elected CGSA president decided to ground without killing the plant. season and monthly in the off-season. Hosting a major tournament, helping make the golf business his career. Then we hit it with a bunch of white More information is available by calling groom Augusta National in preparation Meyer enrolled at Guelph University, projectiles every day. Then we give 413-545-0895. The phone message can for the Masters, building and growing in studied turf management worked sum- people spiked shoes and tell them be heard by calling800-2264476 (4IPM). a new course, and making certain the mers at Cutten Club in Guelph and later to walk all over that minimal photo- CGSA's national conference continues as a university research technician under synthetic area. In the coastal re- gion, we tell them to do it year- HOLLEMBEAK GETS CREDIT moving across the country allowing more retired professor and former dean Clay round. At the end of all that, we act SUGAR GROVE, 111. — In May's page supers to become involved with their na- Switzer. He graduated with an associates surprised when we find that grass 1 story on Rich Harvest Links, the tional association are goals Meyer hopes degree in turfgrass science and eventu- is in trouble. I'm not surprised. The reporter neglected to mention that to achieve. ally earned additional degrees in horti- amazing thing is that superinten- Hollembeak Construction, Inc. of Big "Being part of this organization is a culture and a Turf Management Short dents are able to keep the stuff Rock built the first 11 holes of Jerry great honor and I look forward to repre- Course degree from Guelph. alive at all." Rich's 18-hole estate course. A mem- senting the CGSA in the most profes- After a brief fling helping run the fam- ber of the Golf Course Builders Asso- sional way I can," Meyer said. ily dairy farm, Meyer accepted the post of Researchers and superinten- ciation of America, Hollembeak did all Meyer's entry into the superintendent superintendent at Cedarbrook Golf & dents are so concerned about the the earthwork and shaping, except the field blossomed from an appreciation of Country Club in Ste. Sophie in 1975. He actual putting surface, that they irrigation, on those 11 holes. Ryan Inc. the outdoors he gained during his up- has remained at the private club ever often forget what goes on below the Central of Janesville, Wis., built the bringing on his parents' dairy farm in since. surface, in the roots. "We want to last seven holes. LaChute, Quebec. Following the lead of Continued on page 18 Continued on page 24 K-State breaks ground in curriculum 'We may, in the next few years, step up our influence at Continued from page 17 O'Brien, Mona and others de- PGA Tour had all the capabilities existing turf programs that won't have a PGA Tour the hands of management compa- cided to work with universities to design, build and manage a 9 nies — were moving toward one to amend turf programs to pre- college course at a reasonably course, but do have hospitality and business education. person being the key individual pare students for "a broader edu- priced level than the normal cor- — Joe O'Brien, GCSAA chief operating officer and manager of a facility, and it cational opportunity." porate-level TPC facility. was obvious that our members Meanwhile, Colbert and Krause "His vision was that the Tour needed some better preparations had related ideas. Many Tour play- could not only do these things, Krause was not only interested search and extending golf into the to fulfill the types of jobs out there ers attended colleges that had no but use the Tour player as one of in a new golf course but in K- Outward Bound program the today and that would be in prob- golf courses, or courses in poor the chief fund-raisers and archi- State being state-of-the-art in school conducts for minorities in ably greater number tomorrow." condition, and Colbert thought the tect of name," O'Brien said. turfgrass and environmental re- the summers. When he mentioned building a course in conjunction with Colbert, the PGA Tour sug- gested that Krause contact the GCSAA. The timing was perfect. 'The opportunity sounds way too good to be true," said O'Brien, "because it ties together THE PROBLEM IS COMPLEX three of our objectives (the golf course management program, a The temperature rises.
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