THE HEAT IS on by Pat Norton Nettle Creek CC

Golf In The Flatlands THE HEAT IS ON By Pat Norton Nettle Creek CC

The fact of the matter is that it's respect...getting finished with all of financial figures for the summer. ..and now early October down here in the fall cultural tasks before the as usual, the battle to keep the golf north central Illinois, and the heat is weather collapses and November course look good the golf staff func- on ... quite literally, the heat is on ...to takes over. .. tioning smoothly and the golfers the point of being 85°F for many Don't all golf course superinten- happy ... was somewhat taken for days running this past week! dents figure that a break from the granted! So now we're facing a warm spell hectic routine is in order during Being taken for granted comes that is nothing but pure enjoyment .. October? After 'busting our cans' all with this business, I think, so it does- pure enjoyment in being outdoors season long ... we deserve a few n't do any good to complain. every day ... all day ... on a gorgeous weekends off during some nice So, with age comes a little bit of golf course that's not under any weather, don't we? Do we always experience on how to deal with stress whatsoever! have to wait until the golf course clos- things when the heat is really on ... This is beautiful growing and work- es for the season and the snow and I fully realize that while it's nice to ing weather. ..dusky, crisp early morn- begins to fly before we can siide out get verbal compliments on the condi- ings are actually moonlit for the first of town for the weekend? If so, what tion of the golf course ... the ultimate hour of the work day. Then the sun a warped and inbred life we all lead! compliment is to have a strong mem- warms us all up for the remainder of Overall though, the degree of this bership and player base that keeps the day ... by five or six PM a hint of heat is way mild compared to the on patronizing and enjoying our golf evening chill is in the air, followed by heat of battle this past summer. I course' A full golf course makes the enjoyable evening weather and star don't know much about the heat much easier to bear ... whether filled skies each night. Wisconsin summer of '97, but we out it's during the really hot summer An open golf course like ours does here on the hot flatlands experienced months or during a most idyllic have its autumn advantages. some really dry, but very golfable autumn ... Because of its open nature, lots of weather for essentially two months On any golf course I've ever been the golf course can be seen in a stretching from mid-June through at ... whether as a student, and assis- panoramic instant. Given the fact that mid-August. Our roughs became dIY, tant superintendent, or as 'the head our course has what might be called hard-baked wastelands during that cheese' ... the heat that's generated is a flat, 'prairie' look ... getting up on a period, while the daily battle to keep almost always internal. In other high greenside mound counts here for the irrigated areas fully green and words, we all put heat on ourselves to a 'blufftop vantage point'. functional wore us all down by the always do a perfect job, and have a Our course is also extremely end of August perfect golf course ... with too few spread out, which makes it possible These two months were just full of labor and equipment resources. to check things out way out there irony for our public course. The The idea list...the 'to do' list. .. on about 3/4 mile away ... "Hey, that little course was seriously suffering from any golf course ... never gets complet- red dot in the distance is one of our lack of rainfall ... the agronomic troops ed ... as some items on the list contin- guys mowing greens on the back were starting to lose their resolve ... ue to age for lack of priority and lack nine ... lthink" ... Beautiful green bent while the golfers just kept coming and of time. What's interesting about our fairways wind down through the prop- coming, resulting in some very happy attitudes toward these lists is that we erty ... contrasting vividly with the col- ownership faces as they reviewed (Continued on page 32) ors of the changing leaves and the surrounding farm fields. Green and tee complexes look so good ... so interconnected to each other because of the vivid colors. NATURAL ATHLETIC TURF INC. Top off these great fall days with the unseasonably warm weather as GOLF COURSE CONSTRUCTION & IMPROVEMENTS of late and a busy aerification work Specializing in Greens - Tees - Bunkers - Fairway schedule and it's easy to see why the Construction . Feature Shaping - Drainage Systems weeks are flying by so quickly. Like most golf courses, there's way By Contract or "T & M" basis. Also Astroturf Top Dressing drag mats too much to do and too few people 11040 N, Buntrock Ave., Mequon, WI 53092 • (414) 242-5740 available this time of year. So, in ROY G. ZEHREN. FAX (414) 242-5740· JOHN "JACK" WALLISCH addition to the weather being so nice and warm, the heat is on in another

31 (Continued from page 31) Iy are as foreign to them as nuclear up there after AM chores to help with view everything as very crucial, as a physics is to me! the moving out, prepping the con- personal challenge to get everything Others in my ownership group, struction site, and cleaning up the completed ...this week! however, cannot and do not share my entire area ...considerable man-hours The real kick is that nobody else zeal. ..nor can they be expected spent off of the golf course. but understands your priorities or your list to ... understand what all goes into helping out the overall situation. for the golf course ... nobody else on making the golf course so nice and Then, we look forward to the property really knows what's playable. Vertidraining our greens at mid-week going on with the golf course ... if you So, what often happens is that I with one of my few remaining really think about it. have my daily and weekly priorities Wisconsin connections ... Wisconsin Whether it's a daily, weekly, or changed with just one short visit from Turf Equipment...who accomplish season long thing ... each and every one of the senior owners. I always that task at a very affordable price. superintendent holds the key to that tend to put the heat on myself as Right after that, Tyler Enterprises great big secret out there called the concerns the condition of the playing calls and "needs to know how soon golf course ...and it's with some satis- surfaces and the aesthetics of the it'll be before we're finished fertilizing faction that we're all constantly trying course itself. ..1want that golf course our roughs with their two ton spread- to explain and educate our golf pro- out there to look as sweet as possible er" ... "Heck, man, we haven't even fessionals, owners, boards, or mem- every day. We have a limited number started", I reply, "but we'll get right on bers as to the secrets of this great of people available daily to accom- that and be done by mid-morning agronomic game called golf course plish that task, so when priorities get tomorrow" ...which we werel management. changed for me ... on a seeming I finish off the week by working They pretend to understand or be whim ...the heat is really on to accom- until 2:30 p.m. Saturday ... installing interested ... but the fact of the matter plish everything in a mutually satisfy- that 'can't wait' equipment washstand is that there is some mystery sur- ing and satisfactory manner! drain line with a contractor friend who rounding each and every beautiful This week, for example, we are certainly does not have children at golf course. People just can't under- moving out of our triple wide mobile home anymore ...and is the type who stand how it is that it all stays so home clubhouse and preparing for the would certainly understand it if I left beautiful. .. even if they are really initial phases of new...and very mod- for the day ... but somehow I can't interested! Things that we all take for est ... clubhouse construction. This bring myself to leave ... because he's granted agronomically or horticultural- requires all of my people to scoot on also costing us $65 per hour ...and

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32 we'll obviously finish the job sooner it I'd say that all of us have tremendous giving out raises and bonuses based I stay until the bitter end! pride in what we do for a living ... to solely on length of service, seniority, The heat is really on now.v.in the point of doing much more than is etc ...job performance and value to October? Am I working my life required each and every day. the company that help lead to com- away ...consumed with my obligations This is part of the formula for suc- pany profitability are the keys to a at the course above all else ... not car- cess ... whether in golf course man- great career with any company, ing what else happens in the world? agement, turfgrass sales, or any other aren't they?? If our employers take us a bit for calling in life. Successful people thrive Actually for me ... it's all worth it granted ... don't we take our spouses on the intense heat of living active, When this golf course ... this invest- and families a lot for granted ... for busy, rewarding lives ... which often- ment project is completed in about three seasons out of each and every times is not easy. three years ... Susan and I will be year? Do we put too much heat on Easy is working forty hours per somewhat 'in the clover' ... as my par- them to try and understand why they week maximum and depending on ents keep reminding us. And when I can't every go on a summer vaca- the union to keep your lazy, poor atti- read over the GCSAA Employment tion ... like all of their friends? tude butt employed ... Opportunities Bulletin every week ... 1 The fact is though ... that there's a Easy is blaming the world for your notice that too many of them are point beyond which any of us isn't supposedly tough problems and your mediocre in nature ... and do not inter- willing to travel. When it all gets to unhappiness ... without stopping to est anymore. the point of getting totally taken for consider how darned good you've got So ... bring on the heat "even if it is granted ... with no career advancement it all presently ... not to mention the October. The end of the season is in sight .. it's time to make a change. fact that numerous opportunities for a very near ... and it's been a great one The entire employer/employee rela- better life surround each of us every for almost any golf course in 1997. tionship has to be based on mutual day!! Too soon we'll be feverishly wishing respect with an understanding that Easy is blaming the company for for some of that heat...to keep our most of us are capable of going on to not giving out ever better wages and bodies warm and our minds chal- better career opportunities. And there benefits without considering the fact lenged. is definitely a point in time when each that most people make themselves The cold alternative is too soon of us understands this ... and decides ali too replaceable by virtue of their and too lastingly upon us. Then I to pursue something else in life. lousy work attitude and greedy know ... 1just know for certain ... that I'll I've always loved to work hard .. .to behavior ... quickly be so sick of winter that put in the effort to make my course And by the way, people ... good heaL.any heat ... would be most wel- look and for me to feeL..successful. businessmen don't usually keep on come. 'Wi Championship Turf

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Somebody reversed the seasons on us. Again. Record lows at night SOIL MOISTURE and record low daytime highs were CONDITIONS October 10, 1997 part of July and August. We seldom ran our air conditioner and on more than a few of those 50 degree F. nights in August, we pulled the covers up. It rained frequently (but not much at a time, at least in our town) and irrigation planning and problems were £A" CENTRAl .cairn""" not part of our working lives. ~ " When September and October !if ¥ arrived, so did the warmer and sum- Slate aoerage S,w[S' [C 'ourn S.'>Sf mer-like weather. The rain stopped. ;~ C'~N- 34 All-time high temperatures were Short 19% -,- S6 ¥ recorded. And golfers were out in '""Aooquate Adequate 75% Surplus Surplus 6% '-"':::c::J.--1.--='JJJ."":'J droves, enjoying the extended season and using these bonus days to make up for rounds lost during the cold of the WGCSA and was a recipient of ROOTS, He was never without an spring. the WGCSA Distinguished Service opinion. You lucked out if you happened to Award. And like so many of his gen- Bill performed a great service after plan any course constructions pro- eration, he was a proud veteran of his time on the board and as presi- jects this autumn. It was unusual military service in WWII in Europe. dent. He kept a close watch on the luck-remember it because it won't For as long as he was able after chapter and its affairs and never, ever likely happen again for a long time. At he retired, he attended several hesitated to speak up when he our course, the only significant rainfall WGCSA meetings a year. It gave thought we were headed off in the -Q.40"-came on the very afternoon him a chance to see those col- wrong direction. He was, in a lot of Jeff Porter and his GA-60, along with leagues he knew and enjoy a round ways, our conscience. He was our our GA-60, pulled cores for six hours. of golf with them. It also gave him watchdog, and he offered what could It was a heartbreaker-and a holy the chance to keep in touch with the be best termed "tough love," He told mess. chapter. As his health worsened, so us why previous decisions had been It was great fall weather to finish did his attendance. made and generally made certain that up on the odds and ends that never I had the good luck to hear from common sense prevailed. He did so seem to get done during the rest of him a little more often, usually by let- with plain, straight talk; Bill was the season. ter, but sometimes by phone, too. always blunt and was never bashful. With November comes the chance The inspiration was usually some There won't be another like Bill to wind down the 1997 golf season issue he'd read about in THE GRASS Sell. I am going to miss him. and great ready for the holidays of (Continued on page 36) November and December. Stats for September and October are here from the Wisconsin Agricultural Statistics Service. ~ TURF • Bill Sell passed away on August :(~ BOXES 28th. He had been ill for quite some time, and his son Greg wrote to me ...A~ Manufactured in that his dad was just tired and went ~- . Sheboygan, Wisconsin to sleep. His heart was working at only 25% capacity, making even the Specify AMETEK - simplest tasks difficult for him. Bill spent 38 years in the golf A Wisconsin Product! course business, served as president

35 (Continued from page 35) • "Fall of the leaf," as autumn was known as far back as the middle of the 16th century, is a time for enjoying leaf colors. I did my enjoying as a leafpeeker in the northeast again this year, overdosing on apple cider, pumpkin pie and maple syrup, and visiting some folks with Wisconsin connections. I stopped in to see Frank and Barb Rossi in rural New York. They are well settled in at their farm and Frank has his program at Cornell underway and moving forward. He does a lot of traveling since he is a member of the USGA research committee and because he has a 100% extension L.-R: Jerry O'Donnell, Bill Eckert, Tom Harrison, Pete Miller, Monroe Miller, Dr. Jim Love appointment. Few people realize how and Randy Smith. big New York state is, and has responsibilities that take him from Buffalo to the tip of Long Island. Albany area, 40 miles north of Catskill. choice. I would suggest to Mark that Hopefully we will get Frank back to Steve and his wife Carol are building "veteran" would be more accurate. Or the Badger State as a speaker at one a new house on eight acres of land "experienced." That issue aside, I am of our educational programs. they bought shortly after settling in one of those veteran golf course A search for John Burroughs' sig- Catskill. He sends greetings to all. superintendents in Wisconsin and in a nificant historical sites took me to the position to answer that question, in Hudson River Valley. I spent a night in • part at least. The photo above helps. Catskill, New York, called Steve In his last president's message, Late in the summer we had a Blendea and met him for breakfast. He Mark Kienert asks, "where have the reunion of sorts with Professor Jim looks great and is enjoying his life old-timers gone?" I strongly object to Love, Peter Miller, Jerry O'Donnell, "back home." He was raised in the his term "old timers"; it is a poor Bill Eckert, Randy Smith, Tom COLUMBIA ParCar ~ of WISCONSIN

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36 Harrison and myself. Pete is the for- the earth. These "solar winds" amplify mer golf course superintendent at the auroras (there are "southern Lawsonia, Nakama Golf Club and lights"-aurora australis-too) and Firestone CC. After managing golf allows them to be seen farther from courses, he owned a distributorship of the pole. turf equipment in Ohio. Today he Draw a line through Salem, helps operate a family business. Oregon, Boise, Des Moines and New Jerry was a golf course superinten- York City and it describes the best dent before and after a successful sighting; we are included in that area. career at Scotts. He retired a vice- Northern lights sightings are president. reported more often in September Bill was the course superintendent and March. The reason is simple: at Maple Bluff for a number of years. the cool, clear nights magnify their He left Madison to become manager visibility. of a substantial farming operation Did you catch them this fall? near Portage. He has been doing that for twenty years. • Randy, as you know, left our pro- I hope Holly Handrich (don't you fession last year when he left love that name?) attends the GCSAA Nakama. He now owns his own busi- conference with her parents next win- ness, which includes some golf ter-I want to get her autograph. She Brett Favre with one of his biggest fans- course clients. got her picture taken with Green Bay Holly Handrich. That leaves Tom Harrison and me Packer quarterback Brett Favre! remaining as course managers. Favre, Don Beebe, Mark Chmura I'd guess, as a group, we are fairly and Frank Winters sneaked into have felt pretty good since he shot a typical. The majority in a group of Racine for a private, quiet round of "77 or a 78." your course superintendents end up golf at Racine Country Club in early Not only did he have a fun round doing something else in later years. October. Of course, somehow word of golf at one of Wisconsin's premier Who knows? That could be typical of got out that they were at the private courses, he gave a youngster a lots of professions. facility and a number kids waited qui- memory she will never forget. etly and respectfully until they ended • their game to ask for autographs and • Many times in my youth, especially pictures. They were reluctant, but It doesn't seem possible, but on crisp autumn nights, our family when Favre found out that Holly's another Symposium is here. The pro- would watch the northern lights-the dad, Mike, was the course superin- gram looks excellent and I expect aurora borealis. It seems in my adult tendent, he posed with her for the many of us will be there. Until then, life I've seen them less; the reason, I photo you see here. Brett visited with be well, do good work and keep in am convinced, is that they were sim- Holly about the course, and he must touch. lit ply more visible in the country where the darkness isn't polluted by artificial lights (street lamps, car lights, lighted homes, etc.). On September 30th, the aurora borealis was particularly visible, even for townies like most of us. When they are really spectacular, the light flares with long shafts of whitish-pur- ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS FOR plish-reddish colors from the northern THE GOLF SUPERINTENDENT horizon to the very top of the sky. There is movement to them, too, and • Disposal of pesticides, fungicides, and hazardous wastes they an be overwhelmingly awesome. The September 30th show wasn't that • Free cost analysis for disposal of waste inventory impressive, but reminded some of us • Lab analysis for unknown substances of one of the few perks for night watering on a golf course! • Turnkey waste disposal includes waste profiles, labels, manifests, When I was young I always heard packaging, and transportation the northern lights were the result of • RCRA and DOT compliance sunlight being reflected from the ice on the north pole. The scientific reality • 25+ years in the hazardous waste industry is a little less exciting than that, resulting from the interaction of Liesch Environmental Services, Inc. charged particles in the atmosphere. 6000 Gisholt Drive, Suite 203 • Madison, WI 53713 Sunspots and solar storms send (608) 223-1532' Fax (608) 223-1534 streams of magnetic particles toward

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Every year turf researchers gather Seasonal reductions in dollar spot that the primary role of humic acids at the Crop Science Society of severity ranged from 45 to 63%. On in 100% sand cultures is that of America meetings to exchange infor- fairways, vacuuming was most effec- increased bentgrass uptake of P. mation on current research. Abstracts tive. It reduced doliar spot 85 to 95"1" Concern that cultivation of sand of some of the research being report- over two years. topdressed native soil greens will mix ed this year serve as the basis for Another cultural practice being the native soil with the sand and lead this article. These provide a good investigated for effects on disease is to surface pore sealing is being stud- overview of what problems are being the use of plant growth regulators. ied at Michigan State University. The researched around the country and University of Illinois field trials have effects of water injection (WI) and what the researchers are observing. shown that application of Cutless and hollow time (HT) cultivation are being A note of caution is necessary. Primo on bentgrass suppresses dollar compared. No differences in sand-soil Many of these research projects are spot. Primo also reduced the severity mixing were evident after one year of in their infancy. First-year observe- of brown patch but Cutless had no cultivation. By the end of the second nons in field research projects can be effect. As the researchers have point- year, WI-cultivated plots had more misleading. ed out, these observations suggest sand in the native soil and less sand OUf old nemesis, Poa annu8, that Primo and Cutless can have in the topdressing layer than did the continues to receive attention. fungicidal properties, but one has to HT-cultivated plots. How these differ- Researchers at Ohio State University keep in mind that they also reduce ences influence putting green quality report that monthly foliar applications disease recovery rates through sup- remains to be seen. of Fe or Fe+Mg significantly reduced pression of leaf extension rates. Other researchers at Michigan the poa population in a bentgrass A common belief is that morning State University are examining the fairway. How or why this occurred is shading of putting greens leads to long-term effects of pgr's and rolling unknown. more rapid declines in quality than on putting quality and speed on Research in California on poa does afternoon shade. This belief has greens with different root zone com- invasion of creeping bentgrass sub- no scientific basis, which is why the positions. Early results have shown stantiated that the extent of invasion issue is being studied by researchers that ball speed is greatest with the depends on the quality of the bent- at Ohio State University. Their first- combination of pgr + rolling, but the grass turf. The more open the turf, year observations failed to disclose the more susceptible to invasion by any differences in the effects of time- poa. Poa invasion of different bent- of-day and shading intensity on bentgrass plots was tracked for 5 years, grass putting green quality. However, At the end of this time, creeping measures of root weights and leaf bentgrasses with poa populations of pigment concentrations suggest that 15% or less were Southshore, Cato. morning shade may prove more detri- Crenshaw, and C-N-C. Bentgrass mental in the long run. It seems to stands having more than 25% poa me that what needs to be factored were Regent, Penn cross, and into this study are duration of leaf Emerald. wetness and water use rates. Numerous studies have shown Disease pressure and the tendency that early morning dew removal from to over- or under-irrigate could well THE WINNING' EDGE. turfgrass significantly reduces dollar be significant contributors to declines • REWARD edge, oul oros, and oroadl.af WBeds spot incidence, sometimes by as in putting green quality. • W",ls f.",., than Roundupand Finale much as 80%. Researchers in On the management side, creep- • Do"n'\ hann ""n-large1 '"~'tation, fi'h and wilolif. Kentucky have examined the effects ing bentgrass establishment on a • LaIl.I.d tor golf courses. ,.,id"ti,1 and comme,cialt"~. of different methods of dew removal. 100% sand-based green constructed g'"Mho"se,. nurseries, righl-of-ways and a~"5tio ,ituation, These methods included mowing, by Iowa State researchers was vacuuming, and wet and dry sponge enhanced when fertilization program rolling. Over three seasons, mowing included applications of humic acid 1.800.362.8049 was the most effective dew removal and molasses Research at North ,,,,,,,,...,, "...,"'~., ,_---~_"".~'~ " ,~", .... ". < ,., '-n method on bentgrass greens. Carolina State University suggests