Coming up Roses at Longboat Key That’S the Life of Reilly
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SUMMER 2018 The FLORIDAGreen COMING UP ROSES AT LONGBOAT KEY THAT’S THE LIFE OF REILLY Beachfront Bliss A short course, long on appeal A Career Shake Up Being handed the reset button Beating the Bugs Florida Chapter Researcher makes progress Florida Chapter SUMMER 2018 President John Curran John’s Island Club 5802 87th Street Sebastian, FL 32958 772-231-8623 Vice President Mike Stevens Billy Casper Golf 1008 Welaka Way, St. Augustine, FL 32092 904-626-9263 Sec/Treas Steven Wright, CGCS 38 34 Pinetree Golf Club 10600 Pinetree Terrace Boynton Beach, FL 33436 CONTENTS 561-734-9688 Past President Ricky Reeves 24 Celebrating Auction Success Miami Beach GC 2301 Alton Road Miami Beach, FL 33140 26 Panel Tackles Life Off the Grass 305-673-7000 32 Bug Researcher Finding Answers 34 First Green Comes to Florida 46 The DIRECTORS 38 Reilly Relishes Life at Longboat Calusa Mitch Miller The Dunes Golf & 46 Campbell’s Beachfront Gem Tennis Club Power of 239-472-5150 Central Florida Terry Stephenson 50 Finding the Reset Button Monarch at Royal Highlands 54 Money Find Reveals Integrity 352-315-0556 Everglades Bryce Koch, CGCS 56 A Computer in the Toolkit ADJUVANTS Cypress Lake Country Club 239-481-3066 North Florida David Hillhouse 60 EREF Continues to Campaign President’s Message .............. 4 Pushing your plant control products to Fernandina Golf Club 239-566-2677 The Executive’s Summary .... 6 Palm Beach Deron Zendt ON THE COVER: the MAX. Making chemistries stick. Banyan Golf Club John Reilly dresses each Chapter Round Up.................. 8 561-793-0069 Ridge Tyler Green tee in rose petals on In Memoriam......................... 22 Southern Dunes Golf & ladies day at The Resort at Sweet Talk ..............................58 Country Club 863-421-4653 Longboat Key. In the News ............................62 Seven Rivers Andy Jorgensen, CGCS On Top of the World News Briefs ............................64 352-237-9564 South Florida Rolando Molina Field Observations ...............70 Adding adjuvants to your tank mix, decreases surface Country Club of Miami 305-725-2381 tension of water molecules and breaks through waxy leaf Sun Coast Nick Kearns PUBLISHED FOUR TIMES A YEAR: January, April, July and October Story ideas, news tips Methylated The Oaks Club Seed Oil or comments? 941-966-6523 cuticle opening pathways for chemistries to get to work ® pH Buffer PRINCIPAL FUNCTIONING AGENTS KEEP OUT OF REACH OF CHILDREN COPYRIGHT NOTICE: Copyright 2018, Florida Golf Course Superintendents Methylated Seed Oil .......................................... 100% Please let us know at: CAUTION PRINCIPAL FUNCTIONING AGENTS KEEP OUT OF REACH OF CHILDREN Treasure Coast Craig Weyandt Alkyl Polyethoxy Ether ................................20.0% Read entire label for additional Citric Acid ........................................................19.0% precautionary statements and use directions. 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It is the responsibility of the user to www.harrells.com | 800.282.8007 [email protected] determine that product use is consistent with the directions on the label. Summer 2018 | THE FLORIDA GREEN 3 FL GCSAA Power of Adjuvants Ad.indd 1 6/15/2018 1:52:56 PM Presidents Message PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE 2018 Jeff Hayden Memorial Looking for Answers and Florida Chapter You’re Help Finding Them Envirotron Golf Classic WE SALUTE THE MEMBERS OF THE Presented by: Seven Rivers GCSAA and World Woods Golf Club Summertime is upon us and I’m sure everyone is having a great time destroying what we work so hard to perfect Florida G.C.S.A. for our golfers! The idea of breaking things down to make them better is not something that happens in every part of INDUSTRY the country. Some would say it’s a luxury that many of us PARTNERS PROGRAM are able to do major projects in summer while most of our golfers have gone north to escape the heat. PLATINUM PLUS And maybe it is a kind of luxury, but it certainly isn’t The Toro Company, Hector Turf, restful. Wesco Turf For many of us, summer is as busy and as intense as it gets as we toil to meet that deadline of the start of the fall PLATINUM season. That being said, I hope folks will try hard to take John Curran Bayer Environmental Science a little time and attend local chapter meetings. Recently, Beard Equipment/Everglades Farm I’ve heard from a few chapters around the state that Equipment attendance at meetings has been less than stellar. Harrell’s LLC Harsco Minerals of North America I’m really not sure why we’re seeing the decline in attendance. If it’s due to lack of interest Howard Fertilizer & Chemical Co., Inc. in speakers, locations, etc., then I say step up and get involved, share your ideas and energy. It’s always easy to criticize but rarely is it as constructive as stepping up to the plate Numerator Technologies and working to improve things. GOLD WE GREATLY APPRECIATE THE CONTINUED SUPPORT OF OUR MANY SPONSORS Speaking of getting involved is a perfect segue into my Part B.