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Tri Chapter Event Ridgemark Golf & Country Club Hosted by Central California Chapter August 8, 2016
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President’s Message By Steven Showers Well the recent 100 plus degree days here in the valley certainly mean that summer has arrived, right on schedule and even a little early. June brings heat to the valley and also the Al Glaze Memorial Scholarship and Research Tournament, which was held at Visalia Country Club. The day was great even with the warmth of the valley. Everyone Steven Showers attending had a great time. The Airways Golf Course auction items we had for this 2016 GCSACC President years fundraiser were awesome. Those that bid got some very good deals for their courses. The chapter’s scholarship fund benefited the most as the proceeds from the auction go to scholarship recipients or into our research fund. Our Vice President Andy Cordova was not in attendance at the tournament, but when you see him congratulate him on his wedding, he and Sarah make a great pair and I wish them a lifetime of happiness together. Our chapter will host the annual Tri-Chapter event in August. I look forward to seeing many of our members there. I know it’s a hard time to leave the course but please try and make this great event. We look forward to visiting this course as we have not had the opportunity before now. In September we will visit Ridge Creek in Dinuba for the election meeting. As is the case every year we are looking for members to serve on the board of directors, if you have ever wondered what its like to serve on the board I would recommend “just do it”, it’s not much work and you will enjoy the experience. To be honest Irene and Kim do all of the heavy lifting, please consider joining us. This year we will, in addition to
electing the board of directors, be asking our membership to vote on by law changes. Some of these changes are mandated by the GCSAA, changing the Superintendent Member status back to Class B among some other small changes. We as the local chapter will also be asking the membership if we could move our annual meeting to January from the normal September meeting. Many of the past September meetings struggle for participants, mostly from aerification scheduling conflicts among other issues and we feel that the move to January will be beneficial. I’m sure most of you have seen the relatively new GCSAA ad campaign Thank a Superintendent. I think we as superintendents should take the time to thank a sponsor; we have a number of vendors who donate to our association on a regular basis. Without their support we couldn’t put on these fun golf tournaments or even hold meetings without raising dues prices. So take the time to thank a sponsor!!! I look forward to seeing you at one of our upcoming events and have a great summer.
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Save The Dates Annual Tri Chapter Event Sponsored by the Central California Chapter August 8, 2016 Ridgemark Golf & Country Club
Annual Charity Event Madera Golf & C.C. October 17, 2016 Host Superintendent Lowell Stone
Annual Holiday Party Annual Election Meeting & Tournament September 12, 2016 Ridge Creek Golf Course Hosted by Rob Lomeli
December 3, 2016 Windows on the Water Morro Bay
2017 Winter Symposium January 2017 Be the First to Step Up and lets get our calendar full
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Around the Green by Mike Cline
Mike Cline
Congratulation to Andy and Sarah Cordova on their marriage. The wedding was held at Cypress Ridge. The valley heat didn’t stop the members and guests that attended the Al Glaze Scholarship & Research Tournament. Glenn Matthews, CGCS hosted a fantastic tournament and it was a great success for our chapter. The course looked terrific and we THANK Glenn, his staff, and the membership of Visalia C.C. for allowing us
the opportunity to hold our event at their course. With Fred Eckert’s formal retirement from BASF his replacement has been announced. Edward Medeiros joins BASF after having worked for CPS. We welcome Ed and look forward to him joining the chapter. Jon Christensen reports that he is installing a Champion Ultra Dwarf Bermuda Grass green at Sunnyside C.C. It will be the practice putting green nearest the pro shop and will be evaluated to see if it could be a replacement product for the greens on the entire course. Mike Swing, CGCS of Valley Oaks in Visalia announced his retirement and relocation to Bend Oregon. Best of Luck to Mike and his wife Freddie on this new adventure.
Terry Wisler, former superintendent at the Links @ Paso Robles has moved to Chalk Mountain G.C.. Gordon Vosti and Bayer Environmental are starting an EUP program on a new nematicide at Bakersfield C.C. and Sunnyside C.C. The new product is not yet registered in California but is sold under the name Nortica outside of the state. Construction on a new sister golf course to Monarch Dunes has begun according to Superintendent Tom Elliott, CGCS. The new course is designed by Tim Liddy and is being developed by the company presently building the planned community at the site. The new course is not part of Monarch Dunes Golf Club.
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2016 Scholarship & Legacy Award Recipients ternship with Paul Barr at SLO Country Club.
This year’s scholarship recipients were excellent candidates. It was a pleasure to award Nick Niles (Pictured top left), a Junior at Cal Poly SLO, a Turf Scholarship from the GCSACC. Nick is majoring in Agricultural & Environmental Plant Science with a focus on Field & Turf Management. His planned graduation date is December 2017. His is presently working on an in-
Our second recipient is Jonathan Delallo, Jonathan, a Sophomore, is majoring in Agriculture & Environmental Plant Science. He is also working at SLO Country Club in the Maintenance Department with Paul. Continuing with our Legacy Awards for College students who’s parents are members of the GCSACC we are proud that this year’s awards were granted to Craig Stieler, son of Superintendent Mike Stieler, CGCS. Craig is a Business
Management Student at Simpson University in Redding. Mike is pictured at right accepting the award for Craig. In addition we granted a Legacy Award to Harrison Husting, son of member Jim Husting, CGCS. Harrison is a Student at Loyola Marymount University. He is majoring in Economic & Urban Studies with plans to graduate next May. Congratulations to all of our recipients.
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From the Field Jeff Jensen, GCSAA Field Staff, Southwest Region The California GCSA and GCSAA were represented by Jim Ferrin, CGCS at Sun City Roseville and CAG secretary; former Jeff Jensen GCSAA President and CAG board member Bruce Williams of Bruce Williams Golf Consulting, Kurtis Wolford, Sierra Nevada GCSA President and Class A Superintendent at Cherry Island Golf Course and I. Also in attendance was SCGA director of government affairs Craig Kessler who works tirelessly on behalf of the superintendent profession. The group met with Keali’i Bright, Deputy Secretary to Natural Resources Agency; John Casey, Communications Director to Speaker
Anthony Rendon; Kip Lipper, Office of Pro Tempore; Assemblyman Patrick O’Donnell, Assemblyman Phil Ting, Josh White, Legislative Director for Minority Leader Chad Mayes and key staff members of Governor Jerry Brown. Topics included a current overview of Governor Brown’s emergency drought declarations as well as the possible easing of those restrictions in the coming weeks due to ample snowfall in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, the State Water Resources Control Board’s continuing changes to the state’s Model Water Efficiency Landscape Ordinance (MWELO), growth of the game and youth initiatives in the state with a particular focus on the SCGA’s Youth on Course Program, golf’s efficient use of water in the state (less than one percent of the total fresh
water) and the industries outreach efforts with local government agencies and municipalities. Additionally, the delegation held in depth discussion on the economic impact of the game. The state’s nearly 900 courses have a total impact of more than $13 billion, employ 128,000 creating $4.1 billion in wages and contribute nearly $365 million to charitable causes. The event marked the first of two yearly visits by CAG to the State Capitol. For more information on the organization and its efforts, visit www.cagolf.org. Thank you for the opportunity to represent the game in the Central California Region and please follow me on Twitter @GCSAA_SW for daily industry updates. I look forward to seeing all of you at upcoming chapter events.
2016 GCSACC BOARD OF DIRECTORS PRESIDENT STEVEN SHOWERS AIRWAYS G. C. VICE PRESIDENT ANDY CORDOVA CYPRESS RIDGE G.C.
.JOSE ALVAREZ FORT WASHINGTON C.C. PETE BOWMAN HELENA CHEMICAL
PAST PRESIDENT TENNESSEE MCBROOM SANDPIPER GOLF CLUB /RANCHO SAN MARCOS GOLF CLUB CRAIG JOHNSON BELMONT C.C.
PAUL BARR SAN LUIS OBISPO C.C..
SECRETARY/TREASURER GLENN MATTHEWS, CGCS VISALIA COUNTRY CLUB
ALBERT NUNES MORRO BAY GOLF COURSE ZACK MORAN WATER QUALITY CONSULTANTS
Official Publication of the Golf Course Superintendents Association of Central California. The purpose of this publication is information and education for the membership. Published bi-monthly by GCSACC, 5322 N. Leonard Clovis, CA 93619 Phone (559) 298-4853 Fax (559) 298-6957 Email gcsacc@aol.com Newsletter Chairman & Newsletter Editor Zachary Moran Executive Directors Irene Cline & Kimberly Milne
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2016 Al Glaze Scholarship Tournament Highlights
Above The Ewing team gets a BIG THANK YOU for providing a great lunch.
Pictured above are Kevin Eppich, Jose Alvares, Danny Martinez, and Henry Resendiz. At right the Monarch Dunes Team, Tom Elliott, Kevin Liguori, Jon Strecher, and Minas Koolusian Top center is Mike Swing, CGCS receiving a gift from Glenn Matthews, CGCS for his retirement. Above on the right are Gordon Vosti, Jonathan Delallo, Kevin Wiles, Bill Galli, and Jeff Kollenkark. Our winners were at left The Belmont Team of Craig Johnson, Danny Panacio, Derrick Stone, and Todd Hanson and the Toro Trophy winners were Cameron Montiero and Taylor Milne along with Glenn Matthews.