HE JOINT EFFORT of the membership of the Course Give The Ball TSuperintendents Association of America and the USGA Green Section in raising funds for turfgrass research A Push is one year old. The support of GCSAA superintendents at their own clubs coupled with the larger USGA Capital Campaign have made it possible to place $388,000 for turfgrass research in 1985! Nineteen projects have been funded by the USGAj GCSAA Research Committee at 13 universities. The basic precept is development of drought-tolerant mini- mal-maintenance turfgrasses for golf. The projects include plant stress mecha- nism studies; new grass breeding efforts in Poa annua, bentgrass, zoysiagrass, bermudagrass, and native grasses; a

MARCH/APRIL 1985 5 turfgrass research computer data base research contemplated in this study will NJ 07931) a check for the amount library; new cultural practices studies, cost from $2 to $3 million over the next developed by $2 per golfing member at and much more. A description of all 10 years, and every gift, every possible your club. The check should be clearly projects will be given in the May/June source of support is needed. The USGA earmarked for the GCSAA/ USGA turf issue of the GREEN SECTION RECORD. and GCSAA cannot do it alone. Neither research project. It will not be spent for Because of this long-range research can the projects be sustained without any other purpose. It should be generated program, better turfgrasses, with a 50 annual giving. It will take the support on a continuing basis so that the GCSAA percent reduction in water requirements and active encouragement of all who and the USGA, working together, can and a 50 percent overall lower mainte- have a stake and an interest in golfs finance the basic, essential, coordinated, nance cost, will become an achievable future. longer-term research projects so des- goal within the next decade. This joint fund-raising effort affords perately needed. Following is a list of golf courses that, an opportunity for every Can we succeed in this search for through their own gifts to the general superintendent to bring greater and better grasses? Can we, together, develop USGA Capital Campaign, started the lasting recognition to himself at his own minimal-maintenance turfgrasses for research ball rolling in 1984. Clubs club and to his profession nationwide. golf? We certainly can. Everything of marked with an asterisk (*) followed Mr. Superintendent and Mr. Green value being done today in turfgrass by their golf course superintendents' Committee Chairman, you will not only research can be accelerated by this names are specifically supporting the help yourself and golf, but contribute effort. Take this idea. Ask your board of joint USGA/ GCSAA research effort. also to the improvement of the quality directors to support this plan. We think These gifts are restricted, at the clubs' of life in America. It is your chance to it is the best, simplest way to raise the requests, to turfgrass research only. give something to golf and, at the same right amount of money needed for mean- If your club is on this list, we thank time, leave something worthwhile for ingful research. There seems no better you; we are grateful for your concern the entire world of sports turf. And it way to consistently develop the funds and contribution to better golfing turf doesn't have to cost you one penny. essential to a solid, long-range, meaning- for tomorrow. ful program. If your club is not on this year's list, HAT WE NEED is for your club Give the ball a push! Let's get it rolling we surely hope it will be there next year. W to send the USGA Capital Fund at your club - for better turfgrasses We need you. The kind of turfgrass Campaign (USGA Golf House, Far Hills, tomorrow.

The Honor Roll

Abenaqui Country Club, NH Blind Brook Country Club, NY Chicago Golf Club, IL Alamance Country Club, NC Bloomfield Hills Country Club, MI Claremont Country Club, NH Algonquin Golf Club, MO *Bob O'Link Golf Club, IL Club Managers Association, MA ,Alpine Country Club, NJ Bruce R. Williams Cohasset Golf Club, MA *Andover Country Club, MA Bodega Harbour Golf Club, CA *Collison 3, LA Antone De. Bettencourt Brae Burn Country Club, MA Russell W. Oetker Annandale Golf Club, CA Braemar Men's Club Association, CA Colonial Country Club, TN Arcola Country Club, NJ Brandermill Men's Golf Assoc., VA *Columbus Country Club, Inc., OH , PA Brentwood Country Club, CA John E. Laake Atlanta Athletic Club, GA Broadmoor Golf Club, CO Concord Country Club, MA Atlantic City Country Club, NJ Brookfield Country Club, NY Congressional Country Club, Inc., MD Augusta National Golf Club, GA *Burning Tree Club, MD Cordova Junior Golf, CA Avon Golf Club, CT Virgil Robinson Corral de Tierra Country Club, CA Baltusrol Golf Club, NJ *Butler National Golf Club, IL *Country Club of Jackson, MI Bangor Municipal Golf Club, ME Oscar L. Miles, CGCS Wm. P. Madigan Bayou DeSiard Men's Golf Assoc., LA California Golf Club of Country Club, The, MA *Bedens Brook Club, The, NJ San Francisco, CA Country Club, The, OH James E Gilligan Canoe Brook Country Club, NJ Creek Club, The, NY *Bedford Golf & Tennis Club, NY *Canton Public Golf Course, CT Crystal Lake Country Club, IL Terence Boles Walter W. Lowell *Cypress Point Club, CA Bel-Air Country Club, CA Carmel Valley Ranch Golf Club, CA Manuel Cardoza *Bellerive Country Club, MO Castle Pines Golf Club, Inc., The, CO Dallas Athletic Club, TX Oral Redman, Jr. Catawba, NC Dallas Country Club, TX Belmont Country Club, MA *Chagrin Valley Country Club, OH Deal Golf & Country Club, NJ Birmingham Country Club, MI Terry B. Stamp Dedham Country & Polo Club, MA Birnam Wood Golf Club, CA Champaign Country Club, IL Del Paso Country Club, CA Black Hall Country Club, CT Charlotte Country Club, NC Denver Country Club, CO *Blackwood Country Club, Inc., WI *Cherokee Town and Country Club, GA Desert Forest Golf Club, AZ Monroe S. Miller Randy Nichols Desert Island Country Club, CA Blacksburg Women's Golf Club, VA Cherry Hills Country Club, CO Detroit, Country Club of, MI

6 USGA GREEN SECTION RECORD Diablo Country Club, CA Myopia Hunt Club, MA Sharon Heights Golf and Dorset Field Club, Inc., VT Navasink Country Club, NJ Country Club, CA Druid Hills Golf Club, GA New Orleans Country Club, LA Shoal Creek Country Club, AL Echo Lake Country Club, NJ North Carolina, Country Club of, NC Silverado Country Club, CA Edgewood Country Club, PA North Shore Country Club, IL *Singletree Golf Club, CO Ekwanok Country Club, VT Northmoor Country Club, IL Chip Ramsey El Niguel Country Club, CA *Oak Hill Country Club, NY Siwanoy, NY Eldorado Country Club, CA Joseph Michael Hahn *Sleepy Hollow Country Club, The, NY Essex Country Club, MA Oak Park Country Club, IL Joseph J. Camberato Exmoor Country Club, IL Oak Tree Golf Club, OK Snee Farm Country Club, SC Fairbanks Golf & Country Club, AK Oakland Hills Country Club, MI *Somerset Country Club, MN Fairfield, Country Club of, CT , PA Garold M. Murphy Fairmount Country Club, NJ Odessa Country Club, TX Somerset Hills Country Club, NJ Fairview Country Club, CT Old Westbury Golf and South Hills Country Club, PA Farmington Country Club, CT Country Club, NY Southern Hills Country Club, OK *Fox Den Country Club, TN Orchard Lake Country Club, MI Southview Country Club, MN Richard W. Edger Orinda Country Club, CA Southward Ho Country Club, NY Franklin Hills, MI *Orlando, The Country Club of, FL Spokane Country Club, WA Friendly Hills Country Club, CA *Oyster Harbors Club, Inc., MA Spring Lake Golf Club, NJ Friends of College Golf, Inc., CA Charles I. Gardner Spring Valley Country Club, SC Garland Golf Course, MI Palm Beach Country Club, FL Spring Brook Country Club, NJ Gaston Country Club, FL *Palo Alto Hills Golf & Country Club, CA Springs Club, Inc., The, CA Glen Oak Country Club, IL Tim Sedgley St. Andrew's Golf Club, NY Glen Ridge Country Club, NJ Pasatiempo Golf Club, CA *St. Charles Golf Course, MO Gulf Stream Golf Club, FL Payson Golf Course, Inc., AZ Henry C. Vogt, Jr. Guyan Golf & Country Club, WV Payson Men's Golf Association, AZ St. David's Golf Club, PA Harrisburg Country Club, VA Peach Tree Golf & Country Club, CA Stono River Golf Club, SC Hartford Golf Club, The, CT *Pebble Beach Company Golf Dept., CA *Suburban Golf Club, NJ Hazeltine National Golf Club, MN Mike Phillips Daniel P. McGlynn Highland Country Club, PA Peninsula Golf & Country Club, CA *Summit Hills Country Club, Inc., KY Hillcrest Country Club, CA Pepper Pike Club, OH Robert Lewis Cahill Hinsdale Country Club, IL *Philadelphia Country Club, PA Sunny Brook Country Club, MI *Hole In The Wall Golf Club, Inc., FL Dennis Watkins Tacoma Country & Golf Club, WA Louis Edwards Pine Lake, MI Tatnuck Country Club, MA Hollywood Golf Club, NJ Pine Valley Golf Club, NJ Thunderbird Country Club, CA Honors Course, Inc., The, TN *Pinetop Country Club, Inc., AZ Towson Golf and Country Club, MD Huntingdon Valley Country Club, PA Plainfield Country Club, NJ Trenton Country Club, NJ Indian Hill Country Club, IL Plum Hollow, MI Tumble Brook Country Club, CT Indian Hills Country Club, GA *Plymouth Country Club, MA Vintage Club, The, CA Jackson, Country Club of, MI Ronald Sherman Virginia Country Club, CA Kent Country Club, MI Prairie Dunes Country Club, KS Virginia, Country Club of, VA Kissing Camels Golf Club, CO Preakness Hills Country Club, NJ *Waccabuc Country Club, NY Kittansett Club, The, MA Presidio Army Golf Club, CA Laton R. Moore Knickerbocker Country Club, NY Princeville Men's Golf Club, HI Waialae Country Club, HI Knollwood Club, IL Quail Club, CA Wakonda Club, IA La Jolla Country Club, CA *Quail Creek Country Club, Inc., FL Wampanoag Country Club, CT *Lafayette Elks Club, IN Lloyd T. McKenzie Warwick Country Club, RI Lake Shore Country Club, IL Ridgemoor Country Club, IL *Wayzata Country Club, MN Lakeside Golf Club, CA Ridgewood Country Club, NJ James E. Lindblad Lakewood Country Club, CO River Oaks Country Club, TX Wellesley Country Club, MA *Lakewood Country Club, TX *Riverbend Country Club, TX Westmoreland Country Club, IL Jerry C. Allums Jesse C. Pittman *Weston Golf Club, MA Las Colinas Sports Club, TX Riverforest, PA Donald E. Hearn Laurel Golf Club, MT Riverton Country Club, The, NJ Westwood Country Club Co., OH Lochmoor Club, MI Rochester, The Country Club of, NY *Wheatley Hills Golf Club, NY Longmeadow Country Club, MA *Rock Spring Club, NJ Richard Struss Los Angeles Country Club, CA Paul Kuehner Wianno Club, Inc., MA Lost Tree, OH *Royal Poinciana Golf Club, FL Wild Dunes Golf Club, SC Manasquan River, NJ W. C. Smallridge *Wilderness Country Club, FL Manufacturer's Golf & Country Club, PA *Rutland Country Club, VT Paul L. Frank Meadowbrook, MI Karl Larson *Wildwood Golf and Country Club, NJ Meridian Hills Country Club, IN Salem Country Club, MA Bernard W. Kowalski , PA Salinas Golf & Country Club, Inc., CA Willow Oaks Country Club, VA Metuchen Country Club, NJ Salisbury Country Club, Inc., VA Wilmington Country Club, DE Mill Creek Country Club, WA San Gabriel Country Club, CA Wilshire Country Club, CA Mill Quarter Plantation San Jose Country Club, CA Winchester Country Club, MA Country Club, VA Santa Ana Country Club, CA *Winged Foot Golf Club, Inc., NY *Milwaukee Country Club, WI Santa Rosa Golf and Country Club, CA Joseph Alonzi Danny H. Quast *Sapphire Valley, The Wolferts Roost Country Club, NY Montclair Golf Club, NJ Country Club of, NC Woodbury Country Club, NJ Montecito Club, CA Saucon Valley Country Club, PA Woodhill Country Club, MN Monterey Peninsula Country Club, CA Sea Island Company, GA *Woodland Country Club, NY Moss Creek, SC Seattle Golf Club, WA Richard C. Schroeder Mountain Lake Country Club, NJ Seminole Golf Club, FL Woodway Country Club, CT Mountain Ridge Country Club, NJ Sequoyah Country Club, CA Wyatenuck Country Club, MA

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