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4 Table of Contents
5 Advertiser Index
6 Forewords
6 -President's Message: Here They Come! Are You Ready?
8 -Fore!: Asking Questions
12 Spotlight
12 -Clem Stewart Receives President's Award
14 -FGCSA's 1996 Distinguished Service Award Winner...: Paul 'Crayfish' Crawford, CGCS
16 Official Business
16 -GCSAA News
16 -Legislative Update
18 -The Future of Water Supply Planning
22 From Badlands... to Grasslands
41 Heads Up
41 -Golf Course Management Companies: Friend or Foe?
44 -Management Firms Mixed Bag for Superintendents
45 -The Bottom Line
46 -Microbes: Snake Oil or Revolutionary Product?
52 Hands on
52 -Course Grooming
52 -Clean Cut: Mowing Techniques
55 -Reel Maintenance
56 -'Detailing' the Golf Course
60 -Cypress Run
63 -FGCSA Turf Research Update
64 Superintendent's Journal
64 -On Par with the President
67 -Rub of the Green: Out of Bounds II
68 -Turf Trivia
70 Afterwords
70 -No Rhyme Nor Reason
75 -3rd Annual Florida Green Photo Contest Under Way
76 -Mark My Words: Dark Clouds and Silver Linings
80 -Green Side Up: 'Tiger Tees' May Get New Meaning
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2 Table of Contents
3 Advertiser Index
6 Forewords
6 -President's Message: Your Organization Needs Your Help...Now
8 -Fore: Time to Establish Your USGA Handicap
10 Spotlight
10 -Florida Superintendents Strike It Rich in Las Vegas
14 -Allan MacCurrach: 1939-1997
16 -Steve Kuhn: Friend and Teacher
20 Cypress Run...: Professional and Personable
38 Hands on
38 -A Day in the Life...: What Superintendents and Their Crews do From Dawn to Dusk to Dawn
38 --From Darkaphobia to Dilithium Crystals
40 --Every Day is Special
46 --It's a Jungle Out There
49 --A Day in the Life of
50 --You Want to Go Where?
58 --Logging a Typical Day
62 --Working the Plan
65 -...And Then There's Murphy's Law!: A Superintendent can Plan on Things Not Going as Planned
68 Heads Up
68 -World's Longest Wooden Golf Cart Bridge?
69 -Super Sod Nursery
70 -Turtle Ridge is an Exclusive Challenge
72 Stewardship
72 -1996 Bird Survey: Wading Birds Actually Prefer Golf Courses to Natural Lakes
78 -Mother Kloska's Guidance Pays Off
81 GCSAA News
81 -Superintendent is 'Most Important Person at My Course,' Say Most Golf Digest Readers
85 Turf Trivia: Fire on the Hole!
86 Research: Tift 94 Bermudagrass - Available to Qualified Certified Growers in 1997
88 Superintendent Journal: Las Vegas: Glitz, Glamour and Golf
92 Afterwords
92 -Letters to the Editor
93 -3rd Annual Florida Green Photo Contest Under Way
94 -Mark My Words: UF's Turf Program: Slowly but Surely...
96 -Green Side Up: Warm... and Warmer

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4 Table of Contents
5 Advertiser Index
6 Forewords
6 -President's Message: Of Thanks and Remembrance
8 -Fore: Strokes...with Pen and Club
10 Spotlight
10 -Class of '81 Dominates LCCC Tourney
14 -Serious (Fun)draising: Envirotron Classic Raises $45,00 for UF Research Facility
16 -Blue Pearl '97
24 -Business and Pleasure...and All That Jazz: 1997 Poa annua Classic Combines Business Meeting with Outstanding Seminar, Golf and Entertainment
32 -Turf Industry Mourns Passing of True Legend
32 -26-Year Disney Vet Larry Kamphaus Passes Away
33 Grass is Indeed the Benediction of Mankind
34 A Course Worth Its Salt: A Day at Sailfish Point is Just Another Day in Paradise
57 Hands on
57 -Irrigation: It's a Matter of Control: Irrigation Practices are Controlled by Permits, Restrictions, Water Quality, Soil Conditions, Course Design and Much More
63 -Managing My Irrigation, Changing My Water Source
64 -Winter Pines Irrigation
66 -Fertigation: The Legacy of a Florida Success Story
76 Heads Up
76 -The New Networking
77 -Safety Alert!!: Don't Fill Gas Cans in Pickup Trucks with Bed Liners
78 -Floratex: First Year Impressions
79 -Education: Earn While You Learn
81 -FGCSA Spring Seminar: Education for Us and the Kids That Ride the Yellow Bus
86 -Jacobsen Announces Degree for Turf Equipment Technicians
86 -Lake City CC GCO Program
87 -Industry Leaders to Sanction Certification: First EETC Board of Directors Elected
88 -Advantages of 'Going Spikeless' Touted at USGA Seminar in Orlando
89 -Official Business: Legislative Session Addresses Water, Land Use Issues
90 Key 1997 Water Legislative Action: State Water Policy Revised in 81 Pages
92 Stewardship
92 -Starting in Our Own Backyards
94 -Audubon Case Study
94 -Threatened Squirrels can Call Golf Course Home
96 Research: EGCSA, Olde Florida Golf Club to Establish Test Green
98 Afterwords
98 -Superintendent's Journal: Association Service...Giving Back or Getting More?
99 -GCSAA Online News: U.S. Golf Course Development Continues at Near-Record Pace
102 -Turf Trivia: Health Benefits from Lawns
106 -Guest Column: Silly Laws Enter Through Front Door While Liberty Slips Out Back
108 -Letters ...to the Editor
110 -Mark My Words: Heading in the Right Direction
112 -Green Side Up: For Larry
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4 Table of Contents
5 Advertiser Index
6 Forewords
6 -President's Message: Looking Forward, Getting Involved
8 -Perham's Page: Turfgrass is as the FTGA does
10 Spotlight
22 Winter Pines Golf Club...: The People's Choice!
42 Professional Development
42 -No-Fear Computing!
46 -Taking Care of Business: How Important is Administrative Help to a Golf Course Maintenance Operation?
52 -Public Relations is Part of the Job!
54 -Superintendents are Creating Real Fields of Dreams
56 Industry News
58 Hands on: (Re)Build It and They Will Come
58 -The Forest Country Club: Starting Over from Scratch
59 -Rebuilding Projects Done In-House
60 -Pine Tree Golf Club: The Restoration of a Dick Wilson Classic
61 -From Bentgrass to Bermuda and Beyond
62 -Super Tips: Cleaning Up Fairway Clippings Presents Challenge
64 Stewardship
64 -Getting to the Hearts of the Children: Palm Beach GCSA and Jupiter Farms Community Elementary School: Audubon Expansion
66 -ACSP for Schools: Palm Beach GCSA Makes Natural Link with Kidstown
68 -Butterfly Extreme: Kids Learned They didn't Need a Screen to Keep Butterflies at Their School
70 -Certification Update: Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary Program for Golf Courses
71 -A Walk on the Wild Side: Three Courses at Bonita Bay are Certified ACSP Sanctuaries and Another is on the Way
77 Research: Calculate the Pure Live Seed Ratio and Save
82 1997 Florida Green Photo Contest
84 Letters..: ...To the Editor: Thanks for Tribute
85 Rub of the Green: The World's 10 Most Dangerous Golf Courses
86 Afterwords
86 -Mark My Words: From the Twilight Zone: Are We Strengthened by Unity... or Conquered by Division?
88 -Green Side Up: What Price Glory?

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