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February

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Page Sections/Selected Titles
1 Cover
1 Table of contents
1 Piece of the pie: More and more designers trade fees for ownership slice
1 Destination: Orlando: Environmental debate assumes center stage
1 Progress at EPA? Maybe
1 The envelope, please...: Landscapes named GCN's Builder of the Year for 1995
  News
3 News in brief
3 Golf still riding casino coattails
3 Palmer teams with AGC
4 Planners throw major roadblock at California 18-hole proposal
4 Arizona developer plans three more courses
5 Hawaiian lava beds form bedrock of new Nicklaus course
5 Latest plans unveiled for Oregon layout
5 Trevino design opens in Arizona
5 Hilton takes over Colorado resort
6 Las Vegas' Summerlin to get second TPC track
6 Milwaukee facility allows goose hunt
6 Course building exhibit displayed at Houston Hall
6 Texas municipal layout subject to more review
7 Ohio student receives Best Sand scholarship
7 Nine additional holes set to open at historic Indiana golf course
7 Plans to convert links into residences draw neighbors' wrath
7 Facelift proposed at Memphis muni track
7 Lafever rejoins Kemper at Pipestone
10 Greenlinks buys second Tennessee layout
10 State approves first Nicklaus Tennessee state park layout
10 Ala. brothers design, build own course
10 Art Hills design opens in Florida
14 Florida man develops a maze-ing concept
14 Rain delays opening of NC course
14 Methane leaks force closing of N.C. golf facility
14 ClubCorp, Suding team to win Environmental Award
15 Hurdzan to renovate NY layout
15 Cornish and Silva add new partner
15 NY muni plans to dust off its Twain classic
15 Amercian Golf renames Arizona facility
16 And the winner is... Acushnet River Valley Golf Course
16 Carolinas Group opens one course with plans to soon unveil another
16 Airport layout set to take off in Mississippi
16 Pennsylvania ski area to add links
17 NGF offers two new nine-hole facility surveys
17 Hilton Head's first course reopens after multimillion dollar renovation
17 Forecast opens golf range brokerage
17 Correction
  From the Editor
18 Dual membership? Beware the hype
18 Supers struggle to keep pace with technology, information
18 Letters
18 -USGA: A gov't agency?
18 -Expo '95 feedback
   
19 Guest commentary
19 -Nicklaus: Public-access now driving the market, as golf comes full circle
19 -Passing dual-membership bylaw may overburden certain chapters
20 Commentary: 1995: A year to remember (one to forget)
  GCSAA show preview
23 Superintendents descend on Orlando: 'Trivial Pursuit: Central Florida Edition' or 'How to survive a cocktail party'
23 Williams to assume GCSAA presidency at Feb. 10 meeting
23 The cat's meow?
23 Table of contents
26 Former GCSAA president Williams honored by USGA Green Section
26 Rackliffe earns Feser Award
28 Work of Historical Preservation Committee on display in Orlando
29 The 1996 GCSAA conference schedule
  Maintenance
33 Briefs
33 Audubon expands horizons, goes international
33 Pine Ridge GC undergoes a 'natural' conversion
33 Super focus: Retiring Personalities
33 Roberts urges more carbon use in root-zone mixes
34 Super focus: Golf course superintendents never die, they just ...
35 Seminar focuses on tree care
38 Shop talk: Tips for the hour meter: Sparking efficient use of course vehicles
38 Canada geese count is down
39 Second of two parts: Planting, staking success lies in the technique
42 Off the record: USGA continues major turf, env'l research
44 On the green: Bubble level a multipurpose wunderkind on the course
44 Dougherty wins Pa. presidency
45 Savvy superintendent: Second of two parts: The fully equipped golf course
48 Literature update
48 -Books target personnel, finances
48 -Mechanics newsletter full-service
48 -Turfgrass disease atlas, irrigation manual published
49 Where they're going: Chapman follows the sun to South Africa
49 NH presents scholarships
50 Association update
50 -GCSAA registers as lobbyist
50 -GCSAA, Valent join forces in project to expand education
50 Certification offered OPE technicians
51 CEUs can add up under new GCSAA conference concept
51 PR panel promotes grass-roots strategy for supers
51 Development catalog released
54 Obituaries
54 -Velvet bentgrass developer Manny Francis dies
54 -USGA's Al Radko
54 -NJGCSA's Paul Boizelle
54 Virginia GCSA honors Beljan
  Awards section
36 Chester Valley best conditioned on Senior Tour
37 Clients give builders high marks in poll
  Regional news
55 Carolinas elect David Downing, others as officers & directors
55 Conner given Pen Award
55 Cactus & Pine ups dues
55 Kienert leads Wisconsin
  Development
57 Briefs
57 Course pipeline hot into future
57 Survey reveals costs of course construction
57 Illumined alum takes golf to Mississippi State
57 Q&A: NWH at home in Pacific, eye stateside projects
60 Book reviews: Hurdzan tells all in exhaustive book on course construction
61 Bobby Jones, player-designer unveiled in biography
61 Midwest developers keep Lohmann busy
61 George at work in Virginia
64 Couples-Bates track opens to the public
65 Raymond Floyd, Bobby Weed partners in 'full-service' design firm
65 With help, Houston restores Mem'l Park
66 Commentary: Turn obstacles to development into positives of challenging design
67 Robbins Koch inked
67 International Network of Golf honors Garl
68 Texas town targets tourists
69 Public Works Assn. honors Harborside
70 Sunridge Canyon opens
70 RTJII takes plunge into public golf ownership
71 Brooks-Baine complete first course design
71 Greyrock changes name
72 Panther's Run adds punch to Myrtle Beach
  Management
73 Briefs
73 Discount rounds program unveiled: EPI marketing excess capacity at courses
73 Friels become major players in New England
73 Golf Enterprises Inc. reportedly for sale
73 Management company update
74 Group backs military cause: Several Defense Department golf courses scheduled to privatize this year
75 Legal corner: Raining golf balls create real nuisance
76 Friel offers insights learned during his 80 years in the golf industry
79 CMAA to elect new officers during annual meeting
79 Kemper makes Lesnik marketing manager
80 Courses added by management firms in recent months
81 AGC, Alcott join forces to promote golf for women
81 NGP acquires two courses in Ore., Pa.
82 Desert courses switch to bermuda
  Supplier business
83 Briefs
83 Hueber debuts new bunker rake in Orlando
83 New product of the month
83 Seaboard added to Lebanon identity
83 Jake, Gravely team in Europe, Australia
83 Texas fivesome claims John Deere championship
84 Vigoro Corp. hires away another O.M. Scott executive
84 Zeneca moving to support 5504
84 RISE notebook: Langley joins RISE; MCS conference set for March 20
84 Yarborough joins Terra
86 Lack of GCSAA input doesn't sit well with Asian supers
86 Wilbur-Ellis takes Asian initiative
87 Hover-mower manufacturer recapitalizes
   
88 New products
91 Golf course marketplace
92 Calendar
93 Advertisers' index
94 The public arena: Expo changes course
  Other pages within this issue
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