Rutgers' Indyk joining Greenway ON THE MOVE Dr. Henry Indyk, a nationally Ripley Sr. of The Greenway Group, and regionally honored turfgrass who said Indyk "played a vital role specialist, is retiring from Rutgers in elevating the term 'professional University on June 30 and will join turfgrass manager.' " Int'l Management Group The Greenway Group of Horsham, Indyk was instrumental in the Pa. formation of the American Sod promotes Rielly to Asia A professor for more than 30 Producers Association, the New years, Indyk will be chief agrono- Jersey Turfgrass Association, the Mike Rielly is in the new post of IMG Resort Management, Inc. mist with Turfcon, a recently Cultivated Sod Association of New director of real estate in Asia for manages the , tennis and fit- formed division of GSI Consult- Jersey, the Irrigation Association International Management Group, ness operations at high-profile ants, Inc., which is a company of New Jersey and the Bergen and is based in IMG's Tokyo of- resorts. managed by The Greenway Group. County Landscape Contractors fice. IMG is the world's largest sports He will continue work on the con- Association. Since graduating from Stanford marketing firm. Rielly joins a To- struction, renovation and mainte- The Irrigation Association University in 1985, Rielly has kyo staff of 30 employees specializ- nance of athletic fields and other named Indyk its Man of the Year in Dr. Henry Indyk worked in IMG's Cleveland office, ing in golf, tennis, athletics and sports turf facilities. 1978. His other honors include the Superintendents Association of where he managed the affairs of fitness, licensing, television and His appointment was announced New Jersey Turfgrass Hall of Fame New Jersey's Distinguished Serv- PGA Tour players , the arts. by group coordinator Thomas L. Award in 1985 and the Golf Course ice Award in 1989. Ray Floyd, Tommy Nakajima and Isao Aoki and was responsible for IMG's U.S.-based golf course de- sign and resort management proj- ects. IMG has identified Asia as a high-growth market for its recrea- tional real-estate activities. Several IMG's clients, like , , , Ray Floyd, Curtis Strange, David Gra- ham, and , design golf courses. IMG Developments, Ltd. acts as project manager or lead developer for recreational real-estate devel- opments around the world. Pebble Beach names O'Toole tourney head Robert "Ducky" OToole has joined Pebble Beach Co. golf divi- sion as golf tournament coordina- tor, according to Paul Spengler, vice president of golf. OToolewill coordinate golf tour- naments at , The Links at Spanish Bay and Spyglass Hill and Del Monte golf courses. He will act as liaison between all visiting golf groups and the golf courses. OToole, agraduate of St. Mary's College in Moraga, Calif., is a for- mer member of the Professional Golfers Association of America. He was most recently employed as manager and development consult- ant at Denise Duffy and Associates in Monterey. Stier head pro at Temeku CC Landmark Club Management has named Ken Stier to be Head Golf Professional atTemeku Coun- try Club, an 18-hole golf facility in Rancho California, Calif. The an- nouncement was made by Joe Hough, director of consulting and management services for Land- mark Land Co., Inc. Stier was formerly first assistant professional at Oak Tree Country Club in Edmond, Okla., where he was in charge of accounting for the golf shop and was involved in tour- nament organization and member relations. Stier attended Central State University and Oklahoma State University. He was in private busi- ness for 14 years prior to joining Landmark Land Co. Fister named Spiroplaus La Costa's choice Lasco puts senior vp John M. Spiroplaus, PGA mas- conferred by Golf Digest Juwig in new ter professional, has been named Magazine's Golf Shop Operations. for director of golf at La Costa Hotel & In 1977, and again in 1986, Spiro- irrigation post Patrick J. Fister has been pro- Spa in Carlsbad, Calif. plaus was honored with the Hor- Bryan M. Juwig has been moted to senior vice president of "Our No. 1 choice was John ton Smith Award for his contribu- named to the newly created development with Hale Irwin Golf Spiroplaus, a man who has proven tions to education and training position of irrigation market Services, Inc. He manages the he is America's No. 1 golf direc- programs for PGA professionals. manager at Lasco Fittings development of new and current tor," said Senior Executive Vice He was named 1983 Golf Profes- Division, Philips Industries golf course projects and coordi- President Klaus Ottman. sional of the Year for the Illinois Inc., according to Quentin P. nates the firm's design, construc- Spiroplaus is one of only 67 PGA section of the Professional Golfers Gallivan, vice president of tion and marketing programs. pros to hold the master profes- Association. sales and marketing. Fister previously served as vice Patrick J. Fister sional classification. He has actively served on the A board member of the Ari- president. designer, the company designs For the past 18 years, he has PGA's National Education Affairs zona Chapter, American Soci- Hale Irwin Golf Services is an private, resort and public golf served as PGA head golf profes- and National Rules committees, ety of Irrigation Consultants, international golf course design, courses as well as golf communi- sional and director of golf at the has been a faculty member of PGA Juwig has over a decade's development and management ties worldwide. It also provides Olympia Fields Country Club in Business Schools since 1976, and experience in various phases company based in St. Louis, Mo. expert management and opera- Illinois. In 1985 and 1989 Olympia is coordinator of the rules work- of golf and irrigation markets, Founded in 1986 by Irwin, PGA tional support to existing golf Fields won the title of "Best Golf shops and head professional train- Gallivan said. Tour professional and golf course courses. Operation" for a private facility, ing seminars. Elsewhere... Columbia ParCar Corp. has announced the appointments of Larry Josephson as materials manager and Paul Hoth as as- sembly line supervisor. Prior to his appointment, Josephson worked at Trek Bicycle Corp. in the position of materials manager. Mow Hoth held his position for many years before a short stint away to work for a local Columbia ParCar authorized service center. David Chapman is the new re- two days gional sales manager in Illinois for the Kubota Tractor Corp.'s North- ern Division, while Jeny C. Wren has been appointed pump and generator supervisor for the South- east Division. Chapman had pre- for the viosuly served as consumer prod- ucts dealer development manager for the Northern Division. Wrenn joins Kubota with more than 17 years experience, having worked price of as vice president and general ^^ Offset cutting units. They are manager for a distributor of Onan gm the key to this new mower's generators. I II II success. Meet the John Deere Greg Freyermuth, formerly JLV^ 2243 Professional Greens with Wheeler Fertilizer, has joined Mower. The first triplex ever to Sunbelt Seeds of Norcross, Ga., an offer a head-on solution to compaction. affiliate of Lofts Seed Inc., as Flor- Until now, the built-in price you've always had to ida sales manager. Freyermuth will pay for triplex productivity has been increased com- also coordinate the new sales ar- paction wear around the perimeter of your greens. rangement between Sunbelt Seeds That price just got cut in half. and the Par Ex division of Vigoro The 2243's patented offset design allows you to Industries. spread machine weight over twice as much area. The Professional Business Simply change the direction of your perimeter cut each Group of The O.M. Scott & Sons day, and your tires travel over completely different Co. has announced the appoint- ground. Your greens get a welcome rest. ment of five new technical repre- And that's just the start. The 2243 also features sentatives for the Golf Sales group, a liquid-cooled, 18-hp, gas engine; steerable cutting according to Manager Dave units; power steering; hydrostatic drive; ORFS hydraulic Heegard. fittings and more. Tom Heid, Tom Brown, An- Call 1-800-544-2122 for the location of your near- drew Bourne, Marque Randall est distributor. Or write John Deere, Dept. 956, Moline, and Rick Styer each will be re- IL 61265 for free literature. Because you and your sponsible for providing increased greens deserve the best—and this is as good as it gets. technical service, products and programs to golf course superin- tendents and turf managers within their regions. Heid is responsible for northern Michigan, and Wisconsin counties bordering the Upper Peninsula; Brown for western North and South Carolina and the Augusta, Ga., area; Bourne for the Coach- Offset cutting units on the 2243 allow you to stagger your ella Valley and San Bernardino in wheel tracks by simply changing your direction of eut. California and Las Vegas, Nev.; Randall for Utah, southern Idaho, western Wyoming, eastern Nevada Nothing Runs and eastern sections of Oregon; Like a Deere and Styer for western Washing- ton.