RoundupQuality Has New Meaning

in Turfgrass Picture

By FRED V. GRAU

TOPDRESSING is coming into fashion.Since we can sterilize it, we see the

value of using it on greens. Each suc-cessive layer of sterilized topdressingfurther buries any weedseeds that arepresent, making it more difficult for themto germinate and grow. In addition, top-dressing is an excellent carrier for fertil-izer and it also does well with insecticidesand fungicides. But we re-emphasize thispoint: Topdressing must be sterilized. Asmany of us know, Dr. DeFrance of theUniversity of Rhode Island has pointedout that 13 lbs. of cyanamid per cu. yd.of topdressing, allowed to "cure" for sev-eral months, gives us virtually weed-freematerial. The same undoubtedly appliesto methyl bromide and perhaps other soilsterilants that are coming on the market.

Two very important advances havetaken place in the turfgrass field. Theyare: (1) Sterilization to destroy all un-wanted vegetation that might competewith desired grass that has been selectedfor planting; and (2) Recognition thatsome grass types are far more wear resis-tant, drought tolerant and rapid healingthan others.

The word, quality, no longer appliesjust to putting greens but to all turfgrass.First Merion, then Meyer zoysia, Emeraldzoysia, the improved Bermudas and Penn-cross bent and Penncross fescue havemade the American public turf qualityconscious. These are just a start in theimproved strains that may be expected.

Weed ControlWe have a better grasp today of the

principles of weed control than ever be-fore. Practically all of us believe thatgood grasses, properly fertilized, are thebest weed control device known. But thatdoesn't mean we have licked the problemof getting rid of weeds. A large portionof the Q and A dept. I run in GOLFDOMis devoted to queries on weeds, if theforegoing statement must be justified.

January, 1958

Lawn edging provides excellent vegetative plantingmaterial. This is improved zoysia at Grau's home.

Sod on left cut 2-ins. thick is heavy to handle,breaks easily, knits to seedbed slowly. Half-inch sodon right rolls, handles easily and will knit to seed-bed quickly. This saves on water, maintenance.

Tree feeding reveals starved turf. Trees, grass canbe grown together if right grasses are fertilized

adequately and trees are fed.

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W. E. UPDEGRAFF, Oak Park Country Club,Oak Park, Illinois,

'"reports: "Our results with 'Tetsan' 75 for prevent-ing snow mold over the past four years have beenexcellent. It's easier and much less expensive to jprevent snow mold with 'Tersan' 75 than to repra'ce Idamaged turf. This year, I plan to treat all greens,tees, banks and approaches with 'Tersan' 75." I.~

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O. JOHNSON, Happy Hollow Country Club,Omaha, Nebraska,

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F. E. MAURINA, Tripoli Golf Club,Milwaukee, Wisconsin,

says: "We have been using 'Tersan' 75 to preventsnow mold for the past 8 years with very good re-sults. Generally, we apply 'Tersan' 75 in late No-vember, middle January and early March at therate of 8 oz. per 1,000 sq. ft. in spray or dry form."

H. FANNIN, Mayfield Heights Country Club,Cleveland, Ohio,

reports: "I've been using 'Tersan' 75 since it first became available.To prevent snow mold, I apply 'Tersan' 75 before the first snow inNovember, and again in January. Of course, 'Tersan' 75 is myoIdstand-by for large brown patch control, too."

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Chickweed, goosegrass, crabgrass, knot-weed and clover still plague us but we'relearning how to cope with them. At thistime, I think it only proper to point tothe efforts of John Gallagher of theAmerican Chemical Paint Co., who hasdone an outstanding job of correlatingexisting knowledge of weed control andplans to produce it in a booklet soon tobe published.

Early last year at a Mid-Atlantic GCSAmeeting I told my audience that greensthat have been rebuilt by supts. probab-ly will be free of trouble as long as theyare used. The mistakes that are originallybuilt into greens are quickly discoveredby the supt. who often must rebuildthem within a year or two at great ex-pense. In some cases the supts. have donesuch excellent rebuilding jobs that theyhave been asked to design new greensor even to take part in the complete de-sign of new courses. This quite naturallyleads to the conclusion that closer co-ordination in course construction betweengolf architects and the GCSA would re-sult in future courses that will be easierto maintain and give greater satisfac-tion to players at lower cost.

New Demand for Service

Acquisition of farm land for housingdevelopment has greatly increased thework and the need of our AgriculturalExperiment Stations. A large percentageof requests to County Agents for assis-tance now comes from home owners, andthese in turn are passed on to the Ex-tension Services. A heavy demand for ex-tension specialists in agronomy, horti-culture and pathology has thus beencreated, so much so that states and uni-versities are putting men on full time TurfExtension. It has been our observationthat supts., more than ever before, areworking closely with County Agents andExtension Specialists not only in sharingtheir experiences, but in helping to or-ganize and develop turf associations whichprovide educational material and meth-ods for those not connected with golf.

Substantial grants of money by severalcommercial concerns have aided turfstudies at a number of experiment sta-tions. Research within industry also hasbeen an important factor. Industry distri-bution of informational literature fills agreat need, supplementing the limited dis-tribution of conference proceedings andsimilar educational material.

Bermuda FairwaysIt has been a source of considerable pleasure

to see gradual acceptance of Bermudagrass oncourse fairways and to see this movementsteadily marching northward. Today we havesolid tees and fairways of Bermuda in Phil-adelphia, the Mid-Atlantic area, Kansas Cityand St. Louis. The northward march of Bermudahas matched the development of Merion inthe bluegrass regions so that the two have metand are overlapping. This is a great thing be-cause Bermuda is one of those grasses that isextremely drought resistant, can utilize thebest possible fairway playing surfaces whenproperly managed.

'This subject has been argued for years inthe Mid-Atlantic GCSA. Emphasis now is on"How soon can we get Bermuda fairways?"- not on «How can we get rid of the blankety-blank stuff?" With the development of improvedplanting machines, and with lower cost ofplanting stock, the development of solid Ber-muda fairways will go forward more rapidly.

Winter SchoolsWinter schools at Penn State and Massa-

chusetts University have been publicized before,but we would like to mention them again. Forbrochures for Pennsylvania State University,write to Prof. H. B. Musser and for Mas-sachusetts University, write to Dr. Eliot C.Roberts; or if you choose, drop a line to Grau'sQ. and A., c/o GOLFDOM and brochures willbe mailed you. These are important cogs inthe wheel of training new men. They are prac-tical training schools and not designed to tumout professional men such as the four-year courseat Penn State, Purdue and other schools. Wewere pleased to see the development in thisdirection at the University of Florida at Gaines-ville, where Dr. Gene Nutter is doing such atremendous job in research and training.

While we're on this subject, we would liketo express good wishes for a successful turfpropram to Dr. Louis N. Wise at the MississippiState College at Starkville. Dr. Wise runs thefirst successful and only seed training schoolof its kind in the world. We saw him againat Beltsville and at Gainesville, Fla. where hewas picking up information so as to develop acomprehensive program in turf research forMississippi. Another outstanding agronomistwho has initiated a full-scale turfgrass programis Dr. Roy Blaser at V.P.I., Blacksburg, Va.Their first turf field day was held in July, 1957.The new golf course is their "proving grounds."

Pro. Hugh Knowles and Dr. LeBeau at theUniversity of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, andothers are starting turf programs. A special men-tion is in order for. C. E. (Robbie) Robinson ofthe Royal Canadian Golf Association for his un-tiring efforts in promoting turfgrass work.

Poa annua stIll is one of the most popularsubjects for discussion at supts.' conferencesand local meetings across the country. There isa steady increase of those who believe thatpoa annua can be a valuable turfgrass whenused as a winter grass in combination with astrong growing warm season grass.

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Scene at the 5th annual conference of the Florida Turf Assn., held last fall on the campus of theUniversity of Florida. Several leading turf authorities were speakers at the three-day meeting whichwas featured by a series of educational exhibits and a tour of research facilities in addition to theregular educational sessions. In the above photo, Gene C. Nutter of Florida Agricultural Experiment

Station is discussing Bermudagrass variety adaption studies.

90 Supts. Attend MidwestClinic at Olympia Fields

Practically every aspect of course main-tenance was touched at the fifth annualturf clinic of the Midwest GCSA whichwas held at Olympia Fields (Ill.) CCin November. Supt. Gordon Brinkworthwas host for the two-day affair.

About 90 supts. from Illinois and sur-rounding states attended the clinic. Moreemphasis than usual was put on the tech-nique of spraying with Dwight Powel,University of Illinois pathologist, givingan extremely informative talk on this sub-ject. Another University of Illinois profes-sor, Richard Campana, discussed theDutch Elm disease threat which has be-come a serious menace in recent yearsthroughout the Midwest and has causedrather widespread tree deterioriation ongolf courses.

Other speakers included James Holmesof the USGA green section who spoke onnematodes; Charles Shirley who discussedthe greenkeeping situation in Wisconsin;Malcolm Shurtliff of Iowa State Collegewho brought the supts. up to date on therelationship between temperatures andturf disease; Joe Dinnelli who describedthe planning and installation of drainagesystems; Floyd Sanders who s howe dmovies he had taken, and narrated thestory of improvements that were madelast year at the Ridge CC in Chicago;and Verne Fish who discussed the manyresearch projects undertaken by the ToroManufacturing Corp.

Also on the program as speakers were

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Andy Bertoni, Robert Miller, Robert Wil-liams,' Ted Woehrle and Si Graham anda panel group composed of Bill Stupple,moderator, Ray Gerber, Wes Uptegraff,Gerald Dearie, Sr. and Gordon Brink-worth. The panelists distinguished them-selves by going very thoroughly into thesubject of green construction and main-tenance.

Central Plains Holds 3-Day Meet;Elects Officers, Directors

The three-day turf conference held atKansas State College, Manhattan, in mid-October was one of the best attended ofthe eight annual meetings the CentralPlains group has held. Of particular in-terest to supts. was the grass plant identi-fication session conducted by Kling Ander-son and Ray A. Keen. Other notables onthe program included O. W. Bidwell,Charles Wilson, William Daniel, BudElmer, Harold Jones, L. R. Quinlan,Robert Williams and Tom Mascaro.

At the annual membership meeting ofthe Central Plain Turf Foundation, RossMcCausland was elected pres. and ChesterMendenhall, vp. Ray A. Keen was re-elected secy-treas. Directors are McCaus-land, Mendenhall, Harold P. Henry andRoy Rasmussen.

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Scotty Chisholm Diesin L.A. at Age of 'SO

D. Scott Chisholm, noted golf writerand announcer, died Christmas day at theRiviera Convalescent Home, Los Angeles,following a brief illness. An attack of flu

Pipe and Highland garb were Scotty Chisholmtrademarks.

kept Scotty from the PGA meeting. Henever bounced back. Last October Scotty's80th birthday was celebrated at a bigparty put on by Southern California prosand amateurs. He was born at Kingussie,Scotland, and came to the U. S. in 1899.He settled in California in 1912.

Scotty was a founder of the Los AngelesOpen and of the Left-handers Golf Assn.He was a considerable collector of me-mentoes of noted golfers. Scotty was oneof the kindliest and most generous of men.There'll be stories about him told for yearsand years and everyone of them will betold with laughs. That's a beautiful monu-ment to any man.

Wogan, Pro, Supt., ArchitectDies in Massachusetts

Eugene F. (Skip) Wogan, 67, died of can-cer, following a brief illness, at Beverly (Mass.)hospital, Nov. 11, as the business sessions ofthe PGA annual meeting opened. His long timefriend and associate in New England PGAaffairs, NE pres. Tom Mahan left the pro meet-ing and flew to funeral services at Beverly.

There was general and deep sorrow expressed

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PGA Winter ScheduleJANUARY

3- 6 - Los Angeles Open, Rancho GC, LosAngeles.

9-12 Bing Crosby National Pebble Beach,Monterey Penninsula and Cypress Point

17-20 Tijuana Open, Caliente CC, Tijuana,Mex.

21-26 PGA Seniors, PGA National GC,Dunedin, Fla.

23-26 Thunderbird Invitation, ThunderbirdCC, Palm Springs, Calif.

23-26 Panama Invitation, Panama (P.R.) GC30-Feb. 2 - EI Centro Open, Barbara Worth

CC, EI Centro, Calif30-Feb 2 - Jamaica Open, Caymanas G & CC,

Jamaica, BWIFEBRUARY

6- 96- 9

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Tuscon Open, EI Rio CC, Tuscon, Ariz.Puerto Rico Open, Berwind CCTexas Open, Brackenridge Park GC,San Antonio.Houston Invitation, Memorial ParkGC, Houston.Jackson Open, CC of Iacksen, Miss.

2 - Baton Rouge Open, Baton Rouge(La.) CC

MARCHGreater New Orleans Open, City ParkGC, New Orleans.Pensacola Open, Pensacola (Fla.) CCSt. Petersburg Open (Course to beannounced) .Miami Beach Open, Bayshore GC,Miami Beach, Fla.

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22-2327-Mar.

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at the PGA gathering when news of Mr. Wogan'spassing got around. He had been secy.-treas.of the NE PGA for 16 years and had servedas a national PGA official.

Skip Wogan was born at Watertown, Mass.,and went into golf at Oakely CC there. In1910 he went to the Essex County Club, Man-chester as asst. to Donald Ross. Three yearslater he was made pro-supt. at' Essex Countyand held that position at the time of his death.He was associated with Donald Ross in numer-ous jobs of golf course design and construction.Wogan was active as a city official in Man-chester.

He was, in all respects, the finest type of aprofessional golfer.

He is survived by his widow, four sons, Depu-ty Fire Chief Eugene F., jr., Philip A., LewisF., and Richard T., a daughter, Mrs. JamesScully, two brothers and a sister.

His sons Philip, Lewis and Richard willcontinue the golf architectural practice in whichthey were associated with their father.

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Pittsburgh Golf WriterCompiles Who's Who

An innovation in the golf record bookfield this spring will be Golf Who's Who,a pocket-sized booklet emphasizing rec-ords of U. S. and foreign professionals.

It will include personalized records ofthe active and semi-active players in Amer-ican tourneys with a table showing theirperformances by years in: money won,the U. S. Open, National PGA, Masters,Western Open, Canadian Open, Worldand Los Angeles Open.

Short biographical sketches will ac-company each chart and small picturesof the top stars will also be inserted withtheir charts.

Women pros will have a section oftheir own and there will be brief outlinesof the records of Past Masters and offoreigners who do not campaign here veryoften.

Alltime winners in the major events,the top placers in last years's pro tourna-ments, both male and female and domesticand foreign, will be listed.

It's to be edited by Phil GundelfingerJr., golf writer of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. who has been interested in bothgolf anc~statistics for a third of a century.

Club Managers ConferenceWhen the 31st annual meeting of the

Club Managers Association of America isheld in St. Louis, Feb. 13-15, the speakers'roster will include tax lawyers, acountants,representatives of Denver, Michigan Stateand Cornell universities, which annuallyhold short courses for club managers, aswell as a number of practical experts whohave many years of experience in the man-agement field. Subjects discussed will in-clude food management, stewarding, pur-chasing, club manager-board relations andgeneral operations. Several round tablediscussions also are scheduled for thethree-day meeting.

Chicago Dist. Picks EcksteinCharles N. Eckstein, formerly a director,

has been chosen pres. of the ChicagoDist. Golf Assn. for 1958. Other officersselected at the 44th annual meeting ofthe association include: Andrew W. Gat-enbey, vp and general counsel; Stacy W.Osgood, treas.; William D. Jackson, secy.;and Sidney T. Jessop, ex-officio. TheChicago district has 18,000 members, runs21 tournaments a year and has raisedmore than $250,000 for charities.

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When Librascope, Inc., a Los Angeles firm, recent-ly held an employees' golf tournament at HarryBassler's Fox Hill CC, Glen Seltzer (above), per-sonnel mgr., introduced an electronic brain tocompute results. Prior to the start of the tourna-ment, names, handicaps and rating numbers ofall players were entered on the magnetic memorydrum of the computer. At completion of play eachcontestant's gross was recorded and in a matterof minutes, the machine compared gross and netscores, broke ties by checking against the players'rating numbers, placed the contestants in correctfinish order and printed final results. Appropriate-ly enough, a computer project engineer won the

tournament.

Left-handers Elect MurphyThe National Assn. of Left-handed

Golfers recently elected John Murphy ofFt. Lauderdale, Fla., pres. for the comingyear. Vps are Len Woods, Galesburg, Ill.,and Jack Walters, Tacoma, Wash. E. F.(Fritz) Gore of Ft. Lauderdale is exec.secy. and treas.

The 1958 National Open for Left-handers will be played in Ft. Lauderdale,July 2-6. Harry Shoemaker, who shot a295 in the National which was played atDallas in 1957, and who also won the1956 title, is the defending champion.Twelve lefties shot 310 or under in theJ 957 +rmrnarnent.

Philadelphia GCSA OfficersAt the annual meeting of the Phil-

adelphia GCSA, James W. Morrison,Philmont CC, Huntingdon Valley, waselected pres. of the organization for1958. Other officers are: Edward Roberts,Dupont CC, Wilmington, Del., vp; F. I.Shuman, Philadelphia Toro Co., secy.;and Joseph Valentine, Merion GC, Ard-more, treas. Directors are William Hans-bury, F. W. Tull, A. W. Strachen andHarold W. Price.

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