Golfdom, December 2011
DECEMBER 2011 VOLUME 67 NO 12 18 columns 24 departments About the Cover Golfdom art director Carrie Parkhill Wallace shows some of the highlights of the Golfdom Summit along with a design from iStock International Inc 22 Can We Get a Mulligan A photo caption on page 15 in our Just Add Germs story Golfdom November should have stated that a core sample of sports turf was treated with LidoChems Performance Soil Treatment 14 Audubon International Marks a Milestone The organization dedicated to preserving wildlife and nature on golf courses celebrates 20 years By Ken Moum 2011 in the Rearview Taking a look back at the year that brought us Hurricane Irene the iStimp a record setting U S Open and the beginnings of a course fit for the Olympics By Geoff Shackelford Lease or Buy A financial expert with John Deere takes a step by step look at acquiring equipment By Rhonda Flanery 8 Reading Greens My Top 5 Summit Moments 10 From the Back Tees Lessons Learned from 2011 12 Turf M D Dr Turgeons Drive 36 Shack Attack The Bunkers Down Under 4 Off the Fringe Balboa Park Golf Course gets overhaul Carolinas show sets record Toro on a roll School is in with Syngenta 28 Clark Talks Turf Clark Throssell Ph D discusses painting dormant bermudagrass greens with NC State turfgrass professor Grady Miller Turfgrass Trends This month Golfdoms practical research digest explores alternative approaches to managing dollar spot and annual bluegrass weevil See pages 29 34 Online Exclusive Check out Golfdom TV at www golfdom com to see our interview with Stone Creek Golf Club superintendent David Phipps winner of the 2012 GCSAAs Presidents Award for Environmental Stewardship And log onto www golfdom blogspot com in late January as Golfdom goes across the pond to report from the BIGGA Turf Management Exhibition Didnt make the guest list this year Let us take you there with our behind thescenes look at an industry first BY MATT HENDREN w w w g o l f d o m c o m Golfdom 1
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