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February

Volume [16], No. [1]Full Issue pdf (15.1 Mb)
Page Sections/Selected Titles
1 Cover
4 Table of contents
8 Editorial: The new Golf Course News
11 Reader research: Three out of four superintendents say job has become more challenging
12 News
22 Market update: Golf project report
23 Design: Your master plan
24 Marketing: Superintendent as marketer
26 Course management: Managing budget pressure: The best defense against budget cuts is a detailed operating budget tied to specific course maintenance standards
30 How are you doing and how do you know?: Your career and job satisfaction depend on more than great course maintenance
36 Design case study: Extreme makeover: A clear goal, communication and architect-superintendent cooperation deliver an outstanding Grande Pines renovation
42 Renovation advice: The architect and superintendent mix: Leading architects and superintendents share the secrets of success in teaming up for a great golf course renovation
44 Course maintenance: How to maximize your fungicide purchases: Comparison shop your fungicide purchases by computing the cost per ounce, cost per day and total application costs
48 Course maintenance: Bunker quality factors: Highly manicured bunkers with great sand quality are becoming almost as important as greens management
52 Course maintenance: Golf course pesticide label update
54 Research updates
54 -On-site testing of grasses for overseeding bermuda
54 -Low cut trials of Kentucky bluegrass
56 -New control for Poa trivialis
58 -Managing soil phosphorus
60 Course maintenance: What's new in fairway mowers: Manufacturers answer demand for greens-quality cut on fairways
64 New products
72 Making a difference: Everything I needed to know about life...I learned playing golf!
74 Classifieds
74 Ad index

March

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April

Volume 16, No. 2Full Issue pdf (15.1 Mb)
Page Sections/Selected Titles
1 Cover
4 Table of contents
6 Editorial: Managing trust
8 Letters to the Editor
10 News
22 Market update: Golfers poll: 2004 looks like a rebounding year
24 Marketing your course: Improve your brand
26 Design conceptions: The master plan and consensus
27 Advancing the game: Relocating GCSAA
28 Course management: Put time to work for you: Three steps to get more out of each and every day
30 Course management: Managing consultants: Superintendents can't survive without consultants, but sometimes the challenge is to survive with them
34 Course management: Your next job: Getting the most out of life and work begins with a commitment to growth and career planning
38 Design case study: Sutton Bay: Design-build cuts time and costs in design and construction of South Dakota Resort and Championship Golf Course
42 Design case study: Design-build: Delivering more for less: Faster construction, lower costs, higher quality and less litigation are all proven benefits of design-build
44 Course environment: Environmental leadership: Golf stars in an award-winning role as the environmental hero
47 Course maintenance: Systematic maintenance: A proven maintenance system gives PGA tournament players clubs maximum efficiency and productivity
50 Course maintenance: Moss control on greens: Is hope on the horizon for this epidemic problem?
52 Research updates
52 -Commercially competitive organic fertilizer/soil microbial enhancer
53 -Recycled rubber as a drainage layer medium under greens
54 Course maintenance: New greens mowers go low ...and do so much more: Manufacturers address mower performance and play issues
58 New products - GCSAA show
68 Classifieds
69 Ad index
70 Making a difference: National Turfgrass Research Initiative

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September

Volume 16, No. 4 Full Issue pdf (29 Mb)
   

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