The Honor Roll Mr. Alexander M. Radko USGA Green Section In Memory of Dr. Marvin H. Ferguson Mr. Charles Rainwater, Jr. Mr. Brown Rainwater Mr. Crawford Rainwater For the Charles V. Rainwater Memorial Endowment Mr. Russell Scarpelli In Memory of James V. Kirwan The Toro Company In Memory of Dr. Marvin H. Ferguson Dr. James R. Watson In Memory of Dr. Marvin H. Ferguson Foundation Turfgrass Donors Frank E. & Seba B. Payne Foundation Chicago,IL The William Penn Foundation Philadelphia, PA Corporation Turfgrass Donors Asahi Broadcasting Corp., Osaka, Japan Bentgrass Research, Inc., Fort Worth, TX Boulders Carefree Partners, Carefree, AZ "FROM RESEARCH, knowl- If your name or club is on the follow- Draft Company, Mahtomedi, MN edge flows unendingly." ing list, we sincerely thank you. City of Tucson Parks & Recreation Thus began a USGA Green If your name or club is not on the list, Department, Tucson, AZ Section brochure in 1951. The same we surely hope you will put it there next Forest Preserve District of Cook County, River Forest, IL truth remains 35 years later. The year. We need you. Research efforts of Garden Services, Inc., Pine Mountain, GA USGAj Golf Course Superintendents this magnitude are expensive, and they Greenwood Development Corp., Association of America Turfgrass must continue. It usually takes from Greenwood, SC Research Program for Development of eight to 20 years to develop a new turf- Hilton Head Company, Inc., Minimal Maintenance Turfgrasses for grass variety. We need continuing Hilton Head Island, SC leo, Inc., Odessa, TX Golf had a significant year of progress in annual support. The USGA and John Knorr & Associates, Pittsburgh, PA 1986. The ultimate goal, of course, is a GCSAA can not possibly do it alone. Lofts Seed, Inc., Bound Brook, NJ 50 percent reduction in water use and 50 What we need is for you to urge your Mobil Oil Corp., New York, NY percent lower maintenance costs for golf club to support and send the USGA Piney Coking Coal Land Company, Beckley, WV courses nationwide - based on 1982 Capital Fund Campaign (USGA Golf Princeville Development Corp., Kauhi, HI figures. New knowledge does flow House, Far Hills, N.J. 07931) a check for Royal Lawns of Monmouth, Inc., unendingly from research, and this has the amount of $2 per golf member at Freehold, NJ been a banner year for our lO-year major your club. Request that it be designated Sentry Services, Inc., Stevens Point, WI effort to help Golf Keep America for Turfgrass Research. It will not then Toro Company, Minneapolis, MN Xerox Corp., Stamford, CT Beautiful. be spent for any other purpose. The Only the contributors - individuals, funding should be generated on a con- Association Turfgrass Donors golf clubs, corporations, foundations tinuing basis, so that the GCSAA and Alabama Golf Assn., Birmingham, AL shown on the Honor Roll that follows- USGA, working together, can finance California Golf Writers Assn., make it possible. They have invested in the basic, essential, coordinated, longer Pebble Beach, CA the future of golf. The clubs shown with term research projects so desperately Connecticut State Golf Assn., New Haven, CT an asterisk (*) followed by their golf needed and so important to golf's Golf Course Superintendents Assn. course superintendents' names have future. of America, Lawrence, KS specifically requested their gift, or a por- Won't you join with those already on GCSA of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ tion thereof, be restricted to turfgrass the Honor Roll. Hoosier Turfgrass Assn., Huntington, IN research. These clubs are contributing Maine State Golf Assn., Lewiston, ME Massachusetts Golf Assn., Weston, MA directly to the quest for better, more Minnesota Golf Course Supt. Assn., economically and environmentally supe- Edina, MN National Golf Fund, Inc., rior turfgrasses for golf and for all who Memorial Turfgrass Donors enjoy the beauty and recreation of the Palm Beach Gardens, FL Mr. Robert L. Baker Oregon Golf Course Supt. Assn., outdoors. In Memory of O. Sproule Baker Vancouver, WA We are now in the fifth year of the & Family Southern Golf Assn., Birmingham, A L lO-year research program. Investment in Mr. & Mrs. William H. Bengeyfield West Virginia Golf Course Supt. Assn., the project has reached $1.25 million. In Memory of Dr. Marvin H. Ferguson Huntington, WV Mrs. Floy Ferguson The 1986 Annual Turfgrass Research Western New York GCSA, In Memory of Dr. Marvin H. Ferguson Williamsville, NY Report detailing the expenditures and The Ohio Valley Seniors Golf Association Wy-Mont Golf Course Supt. Assn., progress is available from the USGA. In Memory of J. Earle Nelson Bozeman, MT MARCH/APRIL 1987 13 Donor Clubs Broadmoor Golf Club, CO Country Club, The, MA Abenaqui Club, NH Broadmore Country Club, ID Country Club, The, OH Alamance Country Club, NC Brook Hollow Golf Club, TX *Cove Cay Golf & Tennis Club, FL Albuquerque Country Club, NM Brookfield Country Club, NY Lynn Floper, Supt. Alcoma Golf Club, PA Brookhaven Country Club, TX Crag Burn Golf Club, NY *Algonquin Golf Club, MO Brookside Country Club, OH Creek Club, The, NY Don Zanzie, CGCS Brookside Golf & Country Club, OH Cress Creek Country Club, IL Allegheny Country Club, PA Brookville Country Club, NY Crestview Country Club, MA Alpine Country Club, NJ Brown's Run Country Club, OH Crestwicke Country Club, IL *Andover Country Club, MA Buffalo, Country Club of, NY *Crystal Downs Country Club, MI Antone DeBettencourt, Supt .. Burlingame Country Club, CA Mike Morris, Supt. *Annandale Golf Club, CA Burlington Country Club, VT Crystal Lake Country Club, IL Dave Allec, Supt. *Burning Tree Club, MD *Cypress Point Club, CA Apawamis Club, The, NY Virgil Robinson Jr., CGCS Manuel Cardoza, Supt. Arcola Country Club, NJ *Butler National Golf Club IL Cypress Run Golf Club, Inc., FL Ardsley Country Club, NY Oscar Miles, CGCS ' Dallas Athletic Club Country Club, TX *Arizona Country Club, AZ Butterfield Country Club, IL Dallas Country Club, TX Tighue Shields, Supt. Calabasas Park Country Club, CA Dalles Country Club, OR Aronimink Golf Club, PA California Golf Club of S.F., CA Deal Golf & Country Club, NJ Atlanta Athletic Club, GA Calumet Country Club, IL Dedham Country & Polo Club, MA Atlanta Country Club, GA Candlewood Country Club, CA Deepdale Golf Club, NY Atlantic City Country Club, NJ Canoe Brook Country Club, NJ Del Paso Country Club, CA *Augusta National Golf Club, GA Canterbury Golf Club, OH Del Rio Golf & Country Club, CA Paul Latshaw, Supt. *Canton Public Golf Course, CT Delray Dunes Golf & Country Club, FL Avon, Golf Club of, CT Walter W Lowell, Supt. Denton Country Club, TX Baltimore Country Club, MD Capital City Club, GA Denver Country Club, CO *Baltusrol Golf Club, NJ Carmel Valley Golf & Country Club, CA *Desert Forest Golf Club, AZ Joseph Flaherty, CGCS Carmel Valley Ranch, CA Ed Miller, Supt. Bangor Municipal Golf Course, ME Cary Country Club, IL Desert Island Country Club, CA Barrington Hills Country Club, II. *Castle Pines Golf Club, CO Detroit Golf Club, MI Bay Hill Club & Lodge, FL Armen Suny, Supt. Detroit, Country Club of, M I Bayou Desaird Country Club, LA Cedar Rapids Country Club, IA Diablo Country Club, CA *Baywood Country Club, TX *Cedar Ridge Country Club, OK Doral Hotel & Country Club, FL Bill R. Dill, Supt. Mike Wooten, Supt. *Dorset Field Club, VT *Bedens Brook Club, The, NJ Cedars Golf Club, The, WA Joseph Yoder, Supt. James Gilligan, Supt. *Chagrin Valley Country Club, OH Druid Hills Golf Club, GA *Bedford Golf & Tennis Club, NY Ronald L. French, Supt. *Dunedin Country Club, The, FL Terry Boles, Supt. Champaign Country Club, IL Peter Metcalf, Supt. *Bel-Air Country Club, CA Champions Golf Club, TX Dunes Golf and Beach Club, SC Steve Badger, CGCS Charles River Country Club, MA Dupont Country Club, DE Belle Haven Country Club, VA Charlotte Country Club, NC Echo Lake Country Club, NJ Belle Meade Country Club, TN Chartiers Country Club, PA Edgewood Country Club, PA *Bellerive Country Club, MO Cherokee Country Club, TN Ekwanok Country Club, VT Tom Vande Walle, CGCS *Cherokee Town & Country Club, GA El Dorado Country Club, TX Bellevue Country Club, NY Randy Nichols, Supt. El Niguel Country Club, CA Belmont Country Club, MA *Cherry Hills Country Club, MO Eldorado Country Club, CA Belmont Hills Country Club, OH Ray Morris, Supt. Elgin Country Club, IL Bel-Wood Country Club, OH *Cherry Hills Country Club, CO Elkins Lake Golf Club, TX *Bend Golf & Country Club, OR Dan Pierson, CGCS Elyria Country Club, The, OH Ken Johnson, Supt. Chevy Chase Club, MD Engineers Country Club, NY Big Foot Country Club, WI *Cheyenne Country Club, WY Essex Country Club, MA *Biltmore Country Club, IL Fredrick David, CGCS Essex Fells Country Club, NJ Robert Wilkins, Supt. Chicago Golf Club, IL Exmoor Country Club, IL Biltmore Forest Country Club, NC Chikaming Country Club, MI Fairbanks Golf & Country Club, AK Birmingham Country Club, MI Churchill Valley Country Club, PA Fairlawn Country Club, OH Birnam Wood Golf Club, CA Claremont Country Club, CA Fairmount Country Club, NJ Black Hall Club, CT Cohasset Golf Club, MA Fairview Country Club, CT *Blackhawk Country Club, WI Cold Spring Country Club, NY Fargo Country Club, ND Monroe Miller, Supt. Coldsteam Country Club, OH Farmington, The Country Club of, CT *Blacksburg Women's Golf Club, VA *Collison Par 3, IA Feather Sound Country Club, FL Roger Brizendine, Supt. Mark Collison, Supt. Flossmoor Country Club, FL Blind Brook Club, NY *Colonial Country Club, TN Forest Hills Country Club, MO Bloomfield Hills Country Club, MI Jim Thomas, Supt. Fox Chapel Golf Club, PA Bloomington Country Club, IL Colonial Country Club, TX *Fox Den Country Club, TN Blue Springs, Country Club of, MO Colonial Golf & Country Club, LA Dick Edger, Supt. *Bob O'Link Golf Club, IL Colony Creek Country Club, TX Frankfort Country Club, K Y Bruce Williams.