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1 3. Learn about your boss. Or at least learn more about your boss. Here s context: try learn about challenges pressures he/she faces. What tradeoffs are y making on a regular basis? That may help you underst why restaurant got new drapes you didn t get mower you wanted. St in ir shoes. Find out ir hot butns. For some it s honesty. For some it s underpermance or civility. It will help you avoid trouble. As a sidebar, try learn more about or operations within club. It s o easy keep your blinders on assume that only golf course matters. The or things do matter a certain percentage of club patrons. It puts things in perspective. Finally, also underst what metrics are being used evaluate your boss. What facrs determine his or her success how did you help m achieve m? 4. Know your key success facrs. Key Success Facrs are those underpinning concepts that determine wher your organization is going be successful. Here s a non-golf example: in lapp computing, you can choose several ways get in market. Low price-low cost structure vs. Cadillac higher cost but quality live up. You can be successful with eir model, but that determines how you re going drive your business. You can be like Dell or you can do everything highbrow beat everyone on quality. Superintendents need look at KSFs entire facility. Maintaining members? Attracting new members? Is golf course really key? Is it conditions, difficulty, reputation? You have know. ID m map m on your segment of business. If your KSF is attracting new members, how does your role play in that? Reprinted courtesy of Golf Course Industry s Strictly Business E-Newsletter. 5. Plan! Build something that lays out what your objectives are over time build it around those KSFs. This is not a chemical app schedule or a labor schedule; it s a plan that ties removing trees cusmer satisfaction, example. It needs be flexible things change you should have a contingency. Too many plans are lovely notebooks garing dust on a shelf yet people are surprised when it doesn t work. Overall, start looking outside of your world. Find lessons from or disciplines markets. It s o easy narrowly focus on areas you re comtable with. You know how grow great grass, but broaden your perspective outside technical world course maintenance think broadly about rest of your operation. Business hisry is fraught with examples of ideas that worked in one area but failed overall. The tree was re, but est failed. 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4 HANDS ON Growing New Grasses Central Florida Winter Pines GC Joe Ondo, CGCS After sodding our small practice green with SeaDwarf paspalum test how it permed here in Orlo, decision was made convert three greens at a time on our front nine. We set up temporary greens provide a full 18 holes our members cusmers. After stripping sod, we Ro-tilled, shaped, fumigated sodded putting surfaces. We installed a 5-foot wide paspalum collar help discourage Tifway 419 from encroaching in green. We edge paspalum/ bermuda interface with a stick edger regularly. It would take an average of six weeks get greens in shape open play. Then we would start next three holes. The greens on front nine vary in make up, we have some push-up greens that have been amended with s some we rebuilt in past USGA specs with mix. We fertilize monthly with a low N high K fertilizer apply a foliar paspalum mix with minors Primo. A preventive fungicide program works best as we find paspalum slow recover from problem areas. We are still tweaking that program. Since greens were all sodded, I think once we do some core aerifying this summer, it will continue get better. The paspalum certainly did hold its color this past winter we used black pdressing applied every two weeks heat retention. The back nine Tifdwarf greens also held up better this winter with black s. I am still learning about this grass by talking or paspalum superintendents tweaking our program. I feel it will only get better. If given choice, I probably would sprig instead of sod next time. Champion ultradwarf green at Royal Poinciana Club in Naples. Pho by Joel Jackson. 24 THE FLORIDA GREEN

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7 South EPA must Florida: first assure Royal public Poinciana that Club pesticide is considered Matt safe, Taylor, when CGCS used according label directions. To make such When determinations, I first arrived we EPA had Tifdwarf. requires more It was than good 100 different but, scientific with many studies clubs in tests area from installing applicants. ultradwarfs greens, Even bee it was y hard go through keep up. government review, se chemical We had pretty compounds good dwarf are tested greens xicity with basically by non-biased, third-parties. same management If a pesticide as ultradwarfs receives a strike with grooming, against it at any point vertical during mowing, testing pdressing process, manufacturer fertility. We does just not approve could it not really government get much testing. below.156 inches a long period, Once so we product had is work registered, our tails it is off selected get green applied by speeds highly of trained 10. professionals. Just as a pharmacist would recommend We had a TifEagle medicine putting a specific green here ailment, at Royal superintendents work Poinciana with when industry I arrived experts in including It was chemical nice applicars with members years loved of mal it. I had education grown Champion prescribe at a Bonita pesticide a Bay specific East problem. three years previously I was very comtable Not all pesticides with how are equal. it could Toxicity perm. levels Not vary many by product guys had figured instructions out how manage use are clearly it back outlined n. Honestly, on each in pesticide s my opinion label. most Labels greens are at designed that time could explain not compare correct application Champion. procedure, So we decided so chemical go with has Champion little or no at direct RP negative have impact never looked on organisms back. We beyond changed targeted out 18 greens pest. 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In many I think cases, biggest majority game of changers pesticides are break fertility down naturally in Primo.The soil after fertility controlling programs target have pests. changed so much, much lower N rates day maybe half or less than half What of is what your we role? used Some apply superintendents dwarf. But have taken real a breakthrough proactive communication has been guys approach getting on combating staying on general Primo programs. public s misperceptions The rates are all around fear of pesticides. 3-4 oz./a Superintendent on a weekly basis. Jed Spencer, This produces CGCS, speeds Chenal well Country above 10 Club in with Little zero Rock, stress Ark., on participates plants. Heights in monthly of cut Greens seem Committee be ranging meetings inches. now hosts annual open houses give all members a behind--scenes look at how he maintains his South course. 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8 HANDS ON Country Club Services, INC. Golf Course Renovation & Construction EXCAVATION AND GRADING DRAINAGE GREENS CONSTRUCTION LASER GRADING BUNKER CONSTRUCTION ATHLETIC FIELD CONSTRUCTION GRASSING SERVICES EQUESTRIAN CENTERS William H. Wright, CGCS PRESIDENT Robert Farina VICE-PRESIDENT 749 NE 70th Street Boca Ran, FL (561) Fax (561) in winter. Right now y are at botm of cup in some spots when not aerated or verticut. The Eagle is a shallower-rooted grass that thrives in upper bio-mass of soil profile. My Eagle always seemed root in that 4-6 inch organic layer in good times move up in 2-3 range in winter. As far as verticutting p dressing, I m sure you ve been following Facebook postings in golf group re seems be no right answer. The results are only things that matter; how you get re is up individual grass grower. Internet: From Gary Grigg s Facebook Group Golf Maintenance Dr. Byan Unruh, Darren Davis Bill Davidson Dr. Unruh, Davis Davidson commented on question concerns about using finer ss p dress finer-textured ultradwarfs. While Dr. Unruh expressed concern over ming a restrictive layer by using o much fine material, Darren Bill found that doing regular light dustings with fine material during golf season smoothness is not a problem as long as you are diligent with your more aggressive vertication aerification programs during spring renovations. 28 THE FLORIDA GREEN

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10 HANDS ON Bee Area between two holes requiring improvement. Pho by Andrew Englebrecht Phoshop Bee Planting By Andrew Engelbrecht, PGA Former IPM Manager, Pelican Preserve Golf Club From Andrew s April 21st Watching Grass Grow blog entry: In recent Winter 2011 edition of The Florida Green, Kyle Sweet, CGCS talks about utilizing Phoshop get an idea of what an area might look like bee actually proceeding with a proposed change. I was recently asked propose an improvement an area at our facility I thought I would give this a shot. I am no Phoshop expert, but I do have program underst basics. The area in question is an extension of a lake shoreline that rises well above mean high water mark. The only water it ever sees is run-off from surrounding hillside. The result is an ugly muddy area filled with rocks weeds. We have continually string-trim this location keep it from looking absolutely terrible. It is unknown why builder would have graded a shoreline like this. In any case, general manager wants it look better I utilized Mr. Sweet s technique create proposal. I must also credit Darren Davis of Olde Florida Golf Club providing some advice on what plant in area. I went with his recommendation of cordgrass young cypress trees since area does fluctuate in moisture. For actual changes image in Phoshop, I phographed desired species from same angle in same type of lighting (same time of day), so y would blend once I pasted m in. I decided use some dune sunflower as well, since we have it in or locations on golf course. I am relatively pleased with results. Our superintendent,tom Skotzke, submitted proposed design our GM, who loved design y will be moving ward with it. Actually, head pro thought it was a picture of completed project commented how fast we were doing work on course. We all had a good laugh at that one. Edir s Note: Andrew is now an assistant superintendent at Olde Florida G.C. After Proposed new design. Pho by Andrew Englebrecht 30 THE FLORIDA GREEN