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WINTER EDITION
GCBAA RELEASES NEW VERSION OF Cost Estimating Guide
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INCOLN, Neb. (March 3, 2021) — For 50 years, the Golf Course Builders Association of America (GCBAA) has been leading the golf course construction industry and providing golf development with the best-built courses around the world. Whether it is new construction or renovation, start your next project on the right track using the GCBAA Cost Estimating Guide. The Microsoft Excel-based guide features average prices for more than 80-line items associated with golf course construction, along with manual line items for specific project needs. The cost estimating guide features information in seven zone categories, which include 18-hole renovation, 18hole renovation rototill, USGA greens renovation, tee renovation, bunker renovation, irrigation renovation, new 18-hole construction, and a build-your-own-course manual mode. To ensure cost accuracy, line-item costs are broken down by state, along with additional subareas for more accurate pricing. “The timing of the updated cost estimating guide could not be better with the association celebrating its 50th Anniversary”, said GCBAA President Judd Duininck. “We are very fortunate to have this project led by Jack Daugherty with Daugherty & Associates, Inc. Working alongside Jack were numerous association volunteers who helped provide the most qualified
industry knowledge. Our GCBAA staff provided direction and helped pull together the entire association members to provide an excellent industry tool.” A number of GCBAA Members provided support to completing the guide; especially GCBAA Builder and Charter Member Phil Garcia with Ryangolf Corporation. “We were excited to partner with the USGA and update our cost estimating guide after all these years. We have found the tool to be a great resource for developers, designers, architects, superintendents, appraisers, and builders”, said Justin Apel, Executive Director. “Version 6 of the guide was released in 2011 and has served us well. In updating this estimating guide, we have found specific areas of change, as well as we were able to add a couple of additional categories. We appreciate the support of the membership that helped us forge ahead to create such a fantastic tool for the industry.” The GCBAA cost estimating guide can be purchased online at www.gcbaa.org. During checkout, you have the options of a 30-Day Trial Download or Full Version 7 Access Download. With this new online version, you will be contacted and able to download an updated guide as any modifications occur to the estimating tool throughout your subscription.
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PRESIDENT’S PERSPECTIVE
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Judd Duininck
GCBAA PRESIDENT
BOARD MEMBERS Chris Caccavale Caterpillar Inc. (Secretary) Wayne Deker The Toro Company Kevin Grieder Sunbelt Rentals, Inc. Chris Hill Course Crafters LLC Greg Hufner Total Turf Services Pat Karnick Wadsworth Golf Construction Company (Past President) Matt Lohmann Wadsworth Golf Construction Company John McDonald II McDonald & Sons, Inc. (President Elect) Jon O’Donnell Heritage Links Manny Pina Ewing Irrigation Rick Shriver HARCO Fittings Jason Sloan Frontier Golf Blake Thomas Regency Wire & Cable Jon Truttmann Hunter Industries (Vice President) Tom Works Landscapes Unlimited, LLC (Treasurer)
y first year as GCBAA President is in the books! It passed by quickly and posed many obstacles. With COVID-19, we undoubtedly faced challenges, we were blessed to be considered in the essential business category, which enabled all to endure the challenging time. When the world shutdown, so many things cancelled, closed, or came to an abrupt end; however, it challenged the world to “come together” virtually, socially distanced and learn to find the blessings amongst the difficult times. It offered time, more appreciated, with our families. It made me realize how blessed we truly are and “slow down” to really appreciate each moment with my wife, Shelly, and our children. I would have to say as the Duininck family and the Duininck Golf team, we learned to pause, adjust, and grow. As a family, we enjoyed our lake cabin, a few other vacations, and our new puppy, Breezer. Duininck Golf is continuing to thrive amongst the pandemic and 2021 looks to be yet another good year. Looking back on 2020, we enjoyed the Winter Meeting in Orlando, and learned quickly in March to adapt to a “virtual” world with Spring and Fall GCBAA Executive Board Meetings, Summer and Winter GCBAA Board Meetings and the postponement of the Summer Meeting. The GCBAA 2021 Board of Directors Election was held in November. I would like to welcome Wayne Deker with GCBAA Charter Member The Toro Company to the Board of Directors. He will be a great addition, as well as returning to the Board, Greg Hufner with GCBAA Certified Builder Total Turf Golf Services, Jon O’Donnell with GCBAA Charter Member and Certified Builder Heritage Links, and Manny Pina with GCBAA Charter Member Ewing Irrigation. A heartfelt “Thank you” to Rick Williamson with GCBAA Charter Member LASCO Fittings for his service and dedication to the Board. I will miss having Rick’s friendly smile and professional business expertise with us during our Board meetings. Rick is a great supporter and advocate for the GCBAA. The GCBAA Staff was extremely busy in 2020. As many of you know, they switched gears in early August when GCSAA made the announcement that the Golf Industry Show would be held virtually. They came together with the membership, planned an “education webinar”, created a library of education topics, and prerecorded 12 sessions that aired live at the Virtual GIS and were On-Demand for 30 days post show. There were numerous members who volunteered their time to be part of the education. We are thankful to be associated with a group of people with such a willingness to serve the organization. The relationships and teamwork with other industry leaders is important for the GCBAA. I was proud to be part of the “Bunkers, Everything you ever wanted to know and more” session, alongside Jerry Lemons, ASGCA and Adam Moeller, USGA. They are two wonderful industry leaders to present with. The day the session aired live, we were available for Group Chat (Q&A) and it was an enjoyable experience and great to see good attendance numbers. The Virtual Trade Show was a learning experience for all, and I think we can all vouch for the fact that nothing beats an in-person event. I know the GCBAA Staff would have rather seen you all in person and carried out the events as usual. I can attest that the GCBAA Staff were in “high gear” during the event and support each and every one of your best interests. The All-Access Education was a great opportunity to earn continuing education credits, as well as take in about 88 sessions of quality
education from February 2 through March 6. Hats off to the GCSAA and GCBAA for providing fantastic educational opportunities! I would be amiss to not thank the wonderful GCBAA sponsors and presenters of the education sessions. Look further into this issue for additional details on the sponsors and presenters! On Wednesday of the GIS, the GCBAA office held a “Virtual Happy Hour”! It was great to see so many faces and reconnect with many of you, as well as welcome many new faces to the group. It has been far too long since we have caught up, and it was great to see everyone’s smiles and to hear updates from all that could attend. On the final morning of the GIS, I was able to participate in the Virtual Prayer Breakfast, which is a unique experience to be a part of and truly a blessing. If you have not attended in the past, I encourage you to do so in the future. I also had the opportunity be interviewed by PGA Tour’s XM Radio Show Katrek and Maginnes on Tap, and it was fun to share about GCBAA, our mission, the exciting opportunities that lie ahead, and the excitement of celebrating our 50th Anniversary! In early February, we conducted our GCBAA Winter Board of Directors Meeting. We reviewed financials and the association ended 2020 on a very positive note, even with the cancellation of the Summer Meeting and December Regional Meeting. GCBAA received a PPP loan for the 501(c)6 and will be working through those details as that was recently passed in December and funding received in February. The GCBAA office just announced the release of the GCBAA Cost Estimating Guide Version 7. The project was led by one of the original cost guide designers, Jack Daugherty. Phil Garcia of Ryangolf Corporation was kind enough to donate the expenses of Jack to this project. GCBAA staff and numerous other members who all contributed did a great job of working to provide quality industry information. Thank you to all that volunteered and participated in this project for your time and knowledge. GCBAA was fortunate to receive grant funding from the USGA to assist with this project. What a great collaboration and partnership to be part of! Mark your calendars for August 3-5, 2021 at The Biltmore, Asheville, North Carolina. I am looking forward to the education opportunities, the Sticks for Kids Dinner/ Auction, as well as the celebration of the 50th Anniversary. This location offers a unique atmosphere, with a lot of fantastic networking opportunities. The Biltmore staff has proven to be a top-notch group to work with. They have been a true partnership to work with through the COVID-19 pandemic and want this meeting to be safe and amazing for all GCBAA members. Stay tuned for more information on this event coming from the GCBAA office. In parting and as a reflection of 2020, COVID-19 has taught us that life is precious, it is not promised. We are all here to support one another and as always, please reach out to me or the GCBAA Staff if there is anything you need. I am excited to see each of you in August, and until then, stay healthy and cheers to 2021! Sincerely,
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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR NOTES
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t the time I am writing this update, it is officially Spring, and fortunately has started like a lamb. Hopefully, Mother Nature sees the entire country waving the surrender flag and keeps the lion away. Everyone seems ready to move ahead and enjoy the rest of 2021. Nothing speaks to our members' and friends' resilience than the collaboration, willingness, and ultimately the patience of a virtual Golf Industry Show. We were used to the days when your booth needed another sofa seat, an electrical outlet, or maybe you wanted to add a last-minute reception guest; the respective organizations solved the problem. Technology reminded us how beneficial it could be in our day-to-day lives, but in this case, how limiting it can become for what may seem like simple changes. We realize the virtual aspects of the virtual events caused significant frustrations for many. We learned some valuable lessons and will be prepared to improve upon the shortfalls in the event we ever have to use a virtual event as our only means of hosting. Trust us, we all agree that there is no replacement for in-person networking, and outside of another global health crisis, nobody wants to replace in-person meetings with virtual events. On behalf of the GCBAA, our partners, our staff, and the industry, we want to thank all of you who participated and had justified frustrations, your patience, and understanding while we worked the problems. In the end, we hope you were able to take advantage of the virtual offerings and could look past the technical glitches. We were very impressed how participants all could come together and make the best of an opportunity that none of us wanted, and we do not doubt that the 2022 Golf Industry Show will be that much more exciting for us to
gather together! Please take time to look through this issue at some important announcements and details from your Association Board and Staff. There are many ways to get involved, and we welcome your ideas and support! We had overwhelming success with the 12 Educational Seminars provided by our members and industry friends and sponsorship and support of our membership. These assets will be made available for future use as a member benefit. We cannot thank our Meetings and Education Committees for their time and effort in planning and executing the education seminars. Technology and the ondemand access created the opportunity that no-one was turned away because of limited seating; where we would otherwise celebrate a full room with 50-100 attendees, we had thousands of views. We saw the same with those of you with virtual booths and those who participated in other virtual events. As event planners, we will explore every option and work with additional meeting and event planners to capitalize on a hybrid or virtual offering in the future. It remains to be seen how this "hybrid" will look, but we know it will complement the ultimate goal of hosting inperson events. Moving forward, the association has already begun our plans for the remainder of the year. All eyes are focused on the 2021 GCBAA Summer Meeting scheduled for Asheville, NC August 2 – 5. The Meetings Committee has sent out to many of you a straw poll to gauge your level of interest. We understand many of you might not know your ability to travel until summer begins; however, if we gather the interest, we can plan for logistical needs,
WE LEARNED SOME VALUABLE LESSONS AND WILL BE PREPARED TO IMPROVE.
Justin Apel
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
i.e., a larger room block, more meeting space, and other considerations to host this 50th Anniversary celebration. We had planned the Biltmore Summer Meeting for 2020 ahead of the pandemic, and while we designed a robust meeting, we want to make sure we are prepared for what this gathering could bring. We are also pleased to have announced the completion of the GCBAA Cost Guide for Estimating Golf Course Construction Costs. This industry tool is Version 7, and users will see a similar look and feel to the prior guide and notice additional details for project types. The committee gathered details of greens construction practices showing users alternatives for cost savings. The GCBAA would like to thank Jack Daugherty with Daugherty & Associates for his countless hours and knowledge spent updating the guide along with all of those involved on the working committee and review team. A special thank you to Charter and Certified Builder Phil Garcia and Ryangolf Corporation for providing support to the project, as well as a grant provided by the United States Golf Association. Thank you all for the support, and we look forward to hearing from you in 2021. As a reminder, there are countless ways to become involved in the association, and we need your engagement and ideas!
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GCBAA FOUNDATION UPDATE
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Tom Shapland
GCBAA FOUNDATION PRESIDENT
BOARD MEMBERS Ellen Davis SportZmix Solutions John Holmes Atlas Turf International Limited Jimmy Kirchdorfer ISCO Industries Bill Kubly Landscapes Unlimited, LLC Rick Lohman The Toro Company Allan MacCurrach III MacCurrach Golf Jon Truttmann (Board Liaison) Hunter Industries Doug York Ewing Irrigation
espite the pandemic driven inactivity of its major outreach programs, the Foundation has received several gracious donations. Memorial donations were made in honor of Rich Whittet, Jr. whose love of the primary principles of the Sticks for Kids program prompted him to designate us as a donation site. During the 2021 Golf Industry Show attendees were able to stop by Hunter Industries Virtual Engagement Center, watch presentations from product managers, see their latest innovations, and play interactive games. Attendees were even able to earn $25 to donate to our Sticks for Kids program by exploring their Virtual Engagement Center and completing three listed tasks to ultimately help Hunter Industries reach a goal of a $2,500 donation. Lastly, after the Association took a look at their year-end financials, they decided to make a generous donation of $25,000 to the Foundation. COVID-19 may have put our Foundation on hold, but it definitely has not put the game of golf on hold. People have returned to our game in droves, recognizing it as a safe and convivial recreational sport. With the renewed interest in the game, our sites are preparing for further opening of the game. We are receiving more and more maintenance applications from our past Sticks for Kids recipients, who are indicating their facilities are already sold out for the 2021 season. Not only is there a demand for additional sets of clubs, but we have some clubs asking for monetary donations to help with the maintenance of their Sticks for Kids facilities. We are searching for avenues to purchase sets of clubs to fulfill these applications in the near future, as well as other opportunities to invest in these facilities to help grow the game of golf.
As you all know our Harley raffle was a longrunning tradition that we believe has run its course. I would like to thank the GCBAA staff for their continued efforts in keeping this tradition alive as I know this raffle has brought in countless dollars for our Foundation. We are looking forward to getting back into a normalcy by celebrating the Association's 50th Anniversary in Asheville, North Carolina at the Biltmore Estate in August. This will be the first fundraising event for the Foundation since this pandemic began. We are beginning to work with our members to gather auction items and are hoping to have more than ever. We cannot wait to see all our industry friends gather to celebrate this great occasion.
Tom Shapland Please help me thank the following GCBAA Members that contributed a portion of their exhibitor rebate from the 2020 Golf Industry Show in Orlando. To date, the following donations have been received: •
Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc.
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Regency Wire & Cable
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Course Crafters, LLC
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Turf & Soil Diagnostics
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Leemco, Inc.
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Wesco Turf
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MCI Flowtronex
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West Coast Turf
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STICKS FOR KIDS IS JUST PART OF A GREAT STORY AT First Tee Jersey Shore THE GROUP FACES UNIQUE CHALLENGES AND HOPES TO EXPAND SUPPORT FOR A PROGRAM THAT HELPS MORE THAN 800 KIDS ANNUALLY BY PAT JONES
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hen Tara B. Kelly took the reins of First Tee of Jersey Shore in 2015 she wasn’t an industry person or even a golfer. But she’d spent a career raising money for universities so she knew that golf was a philanthropic sport. She believed she could find enough support to operate if she tried hard enough. “I found a really burgeoning organization with dedicated volunteers and supporters,” she says. “Their passion for the program sold me. We started slow but we’ve put the pieces together to create a structure and really grow our presence in the area. But funding is always a challenge.” The organization was volunteer-run from 2008 to 2016 but the big change happened when the owners of Liberty National decided to celebrate hosting the Presidents Cup by investing substantially in First Tee chapters around New Jersey. Their five-year grant to the Jersey Shore group helped to secure Kelly as executive director and ramp up services significantly. Kelly says the group is “incredibly fortunate” to already have both a practice facility and learning center with a 3-hole course that was built largely with a $100,000+ grant from the Wadsworth Golf Charities Foundation “Links Across America” program in 2014. (Read More: https://www.app.com/story/ sports/columnists/stephen-edelson/2014/04/24/jrsmith/8083327/) Ironically, what had started years before as a county junior golf program evolved into a fullblown First Tee facility because of a catastrophe. “We actually benefitted from Superstorm Sandy in 2012 because it took out all the trees from the area of the park where the golf course is now,” says Kelly. “That made it affordable to build the course with major support from the late Leon McNair who led the Wadsworth charity then.” But sometimes, a blessing can be a bit of a curse. It takes about 10 percent of the group’s annual budget just to maintain the 3-holer. That comes directly out of program funds that could be used for kids. 10 GCBAA Earth Shaping News | Winter Edition
“Because the course is situated on park land we have to follow park regulations: it has to be open to the public, we cannot charge people to use it, and we have to pay for any costs…including $30,000 a year in maintenance costs. That’s our big challenge. Raising the bare-bones amount of money it takes to keep it maintained during the season with charging anyone to use it.” It’s worth noting that funding at nearly all First Tee chapters comes solely from the community and not from their parent organization or a national foundation. “We managed to keep the learning center alive for the past five years with the help of various folks but we need to find more support and diversify our funding. We’ve doubled our budget and gone from helping about 150 to more than 800 kids now. We’re really proud of that but we’re trying to serve as many kids as we can and funding is a big limiting factor.” The group gets a little help from lots of places, including the New Jersey GCSA chapter. “The superintendents have been fantastic. They support us financially and help out with projects.” And First Tee Jersey Shore is also a proud beneficiary of the GCBAA Foundation’s Sticks For Kids program. “Connecting with Sticks For Kids has been huge for us,” says Kelly. “We really needed a way to provide equipment for the kids when they come to class or even supply them with a set if they needed it and the foundation came through. We’ve received upwards of 50 sets from the program so far. It’s perfect because it’s good equipment sized properly for the kids, not just cut-down sets.” The goal is to give all children, particularly kids from underserved populations, a chance to try golf. “But we actually define that as kids who are underserved in golf. Sometimes they find us but it’s still mostly us going out to community groups like Boys Clubs and Girls Clubs, recreation programs, charter schools and other groups for children with physical disabilities. If there’s a community in our area that wants to play golf, we will do everything we can to make it happen. We call it our Fairways for All program.” https://www.firstteejerseyshore.org/ fairwaysforall/ Kelly, once a non-golfer, now preaches the gospel: “Putting clubs into the hands of kids is a great investment in the future of the game. For us as a First Tee chapter serving underserved kids, we want to be able to do it for every kid. That would be my dream. If Ellen or someone showed up and gave us a big pile of money I’d love to be able to say to kids, ‘If you’d like a set of clubs you can have them.’ Wouldn’t that be great?”
Learn more about supporting the First Tee of Jersey Shore at firstteejerseyshore.org or contact Tara Kelly at 732-300-1130. The GCBAA Foundation is the charitable arm of the GCBAA and a separate, 501(c)(3) organization. Committed to providing youth (from elementary through college) with tools and opportunities to explore the game of golf and potential careers in the golf industry.
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GCBAA EDUCATION Committee Report
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he members of the GCBAA Education committee hope you found the education seminars we put together for The Golf Industry Show of value to your company. We believe the topics drew good attendance and shed a good light on the GCBAA’s ability to offer quality education to our industry. The committee’s primary goal is to provide informative and valuable content to the GCBAA membership and those we work with in the golf construction industry. Providing good educational programs to our members is a rewarding, but difficult task. The most challenging aspects of assembling an informative program is choosing the topics and trying to figure out what is important to our audience to draw
people to the program. The committee hosts educational programs twice a year, The GIS and the GCBAA Summer Meeting. The Education committee made up of GCBAA member volunteers wants to continue to offer programs that bring value to our member companies, but we need some help from the membership. We need your input regarding topics that you would like to see presented at our events. If you have a topic or speaker that you feel your fellow GCBAA members would benefit from please send us the relevant information so that we can pursue that opportunity. Technology has also created an opportunity to capture educational seminars and discussions using
virtual meetings that can be hosted and held on demand for future viewing. If you or your company have ideas or suggestions on content that you would like to share in a virtual event, we are open to those ideas as well! The committee welcomes your ideas for future education. Planning is already underway for the 2021 Golf Industry Show, San Diego, CA February 5-10, 2022. The deadline to submit education proposals is March 26, 2021 so act fast! GCBAA Education Committee Members, Jason Sloan, Manny Pina, Tom Works, Bob Sylvester, and Judd Duininck
Thank You TO ALL OUR PRESENTERS AND SPONSORS AT THE 2021 GOLF INDUSTRY SHOW EDUCATION CONFERENCE
SESSION TITLE
PRESENTERS
Golf Course Irrigation Renovation – Making the Decision
Manny Pina, Ewing Irrigation Tom Works, Landscapes Unlimited Russell Mitchell, Russell D Mitchell & Associates William Hamilton, CGCS
Toot your own horn! How builders can tell success stories in the media and online
John R Johnson, J2Golf Marketing Pat Jones, Flagstick LLC Henry DeLozier, GGA Partners
How to Prepare for a Golf Course Renovation - (Basic Understanding)
Jason Sloan, Frontier Golf Darryl Bartlett, NMP Golf Construction
What to Expect When Your Course is Under Construction
Chris Lineberger, VM Golf Services
Bunkers Everything You Ever Wanted to Know and More
Judd Duininck, Duininck Golf Adam Moeller, USGA Jerry Lemons, ASGCA
The 4 Domains of Safety Leadership: Skills to align actions with intentions.
Justin Ganschow, Caterpillar Safety Services
Greens Construction, There are Options for any Budget
John McDonald II, McDonald & Sons Dean Graves, The Dean of Turfgrass Consulting John N Rogers III (Trey), Michigan State University Dave Linngren, Landscapes Unlimited Ryan Nicholson, GCS at Diablo CC
2-Wire Irrigation System Best Management Practices
Gregg Roesink, Hunter Industries Christopher Dunlop, Rain Bird Corporation Jason Brown, The Toro Company, Blake Thomas, Regency Wire & Cable Joe DiRienzo, Paige Electric
How to Prepare for a Golf Course Renovation – (Advanced)
Jason Sloan, Frontier Golf Darryl Bartlett, NMP Golf Construction
The 3 Bs - The Basic, The Bargaining and The Buying Game
Bill Garcia, TableForce
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Assuring the Successful Continuation of Your Company
Lee Resnick, Resnick & Associates
Understanding the Importance of a Golf Course Construction Agreement
Kramer Lyons, OHDBS Law Adam Robertson, Andrews Myers PC Wesley Walker, Andrews Myers PC
GCSAA seminar: Green Renovation and Grow-In: Rebuild or Resurface
Charles B White
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ans “Peter” Klein, President of HanseGrand USA Inc., a Germany based company, visited GCBAA Headquarters in mid-January showing off his unique solution for golf path innovation known as “HanseGrand Mix”. It is a water-bound cover ideal for golf course paths and is 100% natural made from high quality resources mined from near the Baltic Sea and is mixed with aggregate to create a porous surface. This solution offers long durability and is water-permeable and climate-friendly. While visiting GCBAA headquarters, Mr. Klein and GCBAA Staff ventured over to visit Landscapes Unlimited at their headquarter office to further discuss the opportunities with this environmental friendly solution, as well as transport and production. In 2017, Mr. Klein went to Stuart, Florida and installed the first 100 yards as a demo path under great interest of some Golf managers and Superintendents from the clubs near Stuart. Other demo paths are being considered and for more information on the product, visit: http://hansegrandusa.com/ or email Hans-Peter Klein: hpkhannover@gmail.com
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DEVELOPERS GUIDE
New Opportunities
FOR GOLF COURSE BUILDERS
BY HENRY DELOZIER
GLOBAL GOLF ADVISORS
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olf course builders are accomplished and proven in adjusting on the fly. Resourcefulness, innovativeness, and problem-solving are essential to a builder’s DNA. It helps to foresee what adjustments will be needed next…here are three that will not go away. 1. Renovation projects will increase in number and scope (in some cases). Golf course builders have been undertaking a growing roster of golf course renovations since the Great Recession stopped developers of master-planned communities in their tracks roughly a decade ago. Builders report that the renovations are sorting into several categories across the US: • Upgrades to second- and third-tier courses which are in need of upgraded playing conditions as the COVID-effect has increased demand for golf. The scope and scale of work on these assignments varies and focuses on features and infrastructure usually. In many cases these courses were built by companies unfamiliar with the standard of best practice for golf courses situated within residential communities or built on a low bid / inadequate budget from the outset. • Renovations for leading traditional and / or recognized golf courses owned by private club members. These renovations are characterized by: (a) eagerness to restore a course’s historic character and status; (b) engagement with recognized golf course design professionals; and (c) significant emotional engagement by members’ committees and boards of directors.
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• Rebuilt golf course features, such as sand bunkers and greens complexes, with the intent of either returning the feature to its original design intent or introducing new-technology solutions for drainage, care, and upkeep.
GGA Partners, a Toronto-based consulting firm, estimates that some US$500 million has been deployed by private clubs and golf course owners for such projects during the run-up since 2010.
2. Public-trust facilities will emerge as a new bid-opportunity category. Long-deferred or -ignored golf courses controlled by cities, counties, and provinces across North America. As is the case with the deployment of public funds, these opportunities involve an RFP process usually based on a low-bid approach.
While some builders are more effective with such projects, current deal-flow requires most builders to put a dog into the fight, as they say.
3. New construction will be slow to re-start. Developers of large communities and resorts provide golf course builders with starkly different opportunities.
New resort development stalled with the outbreak of novel coronavirus epidemic and are unlikely to re-start before 2026 at the soonest. Leading fund managers within the large-scale community / resort sector are alert to acquiring distressed assets for favorable positioning as hospitality demand recovers while many are evaluating conversions
of existing resorts to condominium and apartment use. Long considered a distressed-asset category, golf courses are having a moment in the sun as COVID-driven demand for tee times has caused substantial growth in rounds played and participation - to a lesser extent. Hedge fund managers trained to watch for market opportunities continue to monitor golf courses as a possible source of new land which can be converted to higher-and-better (meaning more profitable) use as residential property for the white-hot residential markets. New homes with golf will first emerge within states characterized by favorable state income taxes. States such as Florida, Tennessee and Texas will grow as high-income earners in such states as Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania shrink as a result of the continuing tax migration. Out West, Nevada, Washington, and Wyoming are states that will grow and need more residential communities which may offer a golf-oriented lifestyle as Californians and Oregonians seek tax relief. It is said that the sun does not shine on the same dog’s back every day. However, alert golf course builders can find new opportunities increasing.
Henry DeLozier is a Principal and Partner at GGA Partners, a trusted advisor to private clubs, resorts, and residential communities since 1992. He serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors for Audubon International. Contact Henry at hdelozier@ globalgolfadvisors.com.
HUMAN RESOURCES
EEOC GUIDANCE UPDATES ON RELIGIOUS
Discrimination in the Workplace BY JACK L. SHULTZ AND SARAH J. KNIEP
O’NEILL, HEINRICH, DAMKROGER, BERGMEYER & SHULTZ, P.C., L.L.O.
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he Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is a federal agency that enforces several anti-discrimination laws, including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. On January 15, 2021, the EEOC updated its previous guidance approved in 2008 regarding religious discrimination in the workplace under Title VII. While this guidance does not have the effect of law, nor does it amount to regulations published by the EEOC, it is nonetheless important for providing direction and assistance to employers as they navigate religious accommodation issues in the workplace. This new EEOC guidance is very extensive and addresses several outstanding issues regarding religious discrimination in the workplace, including (1) what constitutes a “religion” for purposes of Title VII; (2) when employers must make reasonable accommodations for religious purposes; and (3) what types of organizations can utilize the religious organization exemption. Generally speaking, under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, employers have the obligation to make reasonable accommodations for an employee's religious beliefs, as long as such accommodation does not impose an undue hardship for the employer. In this new guidance, the EEOC expanded its previous definition of religion. Based on concerns from several commentators, the updated guidance explicitly provides that religion now includes a “lack of religious faith.” Therefore, “[t]he nondiscrimination provisions of the statute also protect employees who do not possess religious beliefs or engage in religious practices.” The EEOC made clear that discrimination is prohibited based upon any religious beliefs or the lack thereof. The definition of religion was also expanded to include not only “traditional, organized religions,” but also “religious beliefs that are new, uncommon, not part of a formal church or sect, only subscribed to by a small number of people, or that seem illogical or unreasonable to others.” However, the EEOC made clear that the belief must be religious in nature: “social, political, or economic philosophies, as well as mere personal preferences, are not religious beliefs protected by Title VII.” With this updated definition of religion, it is important for employers to realize that Title VII
protects any and all approaches to religion – even very nontraditional or "non" religious approaches. Importantly, however, employees cannot simply state they have some sort of religious exemption with the sole purpose of getting out of certain job duties. They must have sincerely held religious beliefs, practices, or observances in order to be protected. If protection is afforded to an employee, employers must provide a reasonable accommodation whether or not they believe the work requirement in question implicates a religious belief. If protection is afforded to an employee, then employers are required to provide reasonable accommodations. The EEOC noted that, “[i] n determining if a conflict exists, it is irrelevant that the employer does not view the work requirement as implicating a religious belief, or that most people of the applicant’s or employee’s faith would not; it is the applicant’s or employee’s own religious beliefs that are relevant.” This definitional change of religion ultimately broadens what type of religious activity is protected and will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. While certainly there are exceptions to providing the accommodation, if none applies and employer denies the accommodation, the employer’s denial “is actionable even if the employee has not separately suffered an independent adverse employment action.” As such, it is an important step to realize that while employers are not required to have a discussion with employees requesting religious accommodations, the guidance notes that it is best practice for the employer to do so. Some common methods of religious accommodation in the workplace for employers to consider include scheduling changes, voluntary substitutes and shift swaps, change of job tasks and lateral transfers, and modifying certain workplace practices, policies, and procedures (such as dress and grooming standards). Although employers are required in most situations to provide reasonable religious accommodations, there is an exception. Employers are not required to provide an accommodation “if doing so would cause undue hardship on the conduct of the employer’s business, which the Supreme Court has interpreted to mean an accommodation that would require the employer to bear more than a de minimis cost or burden.” According to
the EEOC guidance, if an employer would be required to hire additional employees in order to accommodate the accommodation request, this would be considered more than a de minimis cost. While this guidance is provided, the question of whether the requested accommodation would pose an undue hardship on the employer will be determined on a case-by-case basis, so employers should take considerable care in weighing their decisions. An often-cited example set forth by the EEOC illustrating this difference is as follows: an employee would not be required to wear a uniform supporting LGBTQ+ rights if that uniform conflicted with their religious beliefs, but that same employee would nonetheless be required to attend mandatory workplace trainings that focus on diversity and respect for others (including respect for individuals that are members of the LGBTQ+ community). Another important exemption relates to religious institutions as they are exempt from Title VII’s prohibition against religious discrimination. Religious institutions include churches, religious schools, hospitals, and charities. To determine whether an entity is a religious institution and that the exception applies, courts have repeatedly analyzed all the facts and took into account several factors, including but not limited to: “(1) whether the entity operates for a profit; (2) whether it produces a secular product; (3) whether the entity’s articles of incorporation or other pertinent documents state a religious purpose,” etc. However, the new guidance makes an important and very noted change in how this would be evaluated. In fact, according to the guidance, no particular one factor is dispositive in determining whether the religious organization exemption applies. Therefore, depending on all relevant facts, a for-profit corporation may constitute a religious institution able to claim the exemption. While this guidance has yet to be put to the test in the court room, it may provide exemptions from Title VII's prohibition from religious discrimination for employers who would never have qualified in the past. The full text of the EEOC’s updated guidance regarding religious discrimination is available at https:// www.eeoc.gov/laws/guidance/section-12-religiousdiscrimination.
Editor’s Note: This article is not intended to provide legal advice to our readers. Rather, this article is intended to alert our readers to new and developing issues and to provide some common sense answers to complex legal questions. Readers are urged to consult their own legal counsel or the authors of this article if the reader wishes to obtain a specific legal opinion regarding how these legal standards may apply to their particular circumstances. The authors of this article, Jack L. Shultz and Sarah J. Kniep can be contacted at (402) 434-3000, or at O’Neill, Heinrich, Damkroger, Bergmeyer & Shultz, P.C., L.L.O., P.O. Box 82028, Lincoln, NE 68501-2028, jshultz@ohdbslaw.com and skniep@ohdbslaw.com.
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PICKING UP The Pace
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olf enjoyed a resurgence in 2020, with increased rounds reported at courses throughout the U.S. The question now is whether golf can capitalize on this momentum to make lasting gains in participation and revenue. The key will be improving the game’s primary product – a round of golf. Understanding what drives golfer satisfaction, and dissatisfaction, has been the focus of extensive USGA-funded research over the past several years. To gain a baseline understanding of golfers’ satisfaction, the USGA has conducted surveys with thousands of players. We asked a simple question: Thinking about the typical experience on the golf course you play most often, how satisfied are you? Unfortunately, 69% of survey participants place golf at the lower end of the satisfaction spectrum – at the same level as industries such as airlines and institutions such as the post office. Not surprisingly, waiting to hit shots is a great source of dissatisfaction. Golf’s strategy to reduce waiting during a round has been trying to change customer behavior through awareness, coercion or peer pressure, rather than viewing the issue as an opportunity for a business solution. Making
changes to the product itself through a combination of technology, data collection and improved communication is a model that has helped other industries to improve satisfaction. When the USGA began studying pace seven years ago, we recognized that tee-time intervals were fundamental to improving pace of play since longer intervals spread out groups and reduce waits. However, even the most pace-conscious facility managers have been reluctant to increase intervals for fear of losing both inventory and revenue. However, after some courses increased their teetime interval due to COVID-19 precautions, they saw improved pace of play, higher satisfaction and revenue increases. In addition to managing tee-time intervals, the USGA model recommends setting aggressive pace targets for the first groups of the day. The first group is a literal pace car for the day’s play, so encouraging them to set a quick standard – through incentives – will improve overall pace at the course. Controlling the gap time between groups as they play is also important. Under normal conditions, the gap time is roughly the interval between when groups finish each hole.
It’s not surprising that waiting to hit shots is a significant source of dissatisfaction for golfers. New technology tools can help golf to pick up the pace.
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While there are many factors that can impact gap time, hole length is one of the most important. The USGA used GPS loggers to collect golfer tracks and pace information from thousands of rounds at dozens of courses around the country. In analyzing the data, we found that the slowest holes are par 3s longer than 200 yards and par 4s that measure between 380 and 400 yards. The reason for the delay on these holes is that they feature the longest approach shots. If data indicates that particular holes on a course are the source of bottlenecks, adjusting their length or using easier hole locations can help keep golfers moving. As we learn more about how course design and setup impact pace of play, the USGA can help provide course-specific data and analysis to identify bottlenecks and offer recommendations that can reduce round times and improve golfer satisfaction. The USGA GPS Service can track how golfers play a particular course and provide invaluable data for improving satisfaction. To learn more about this service, visit the USGA Solutions Center or contact us at greensection@usga.org.
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Mike Whan NAMED USGA CEO;
WILL TAKE THE HELM IN SUMMER 2021 ARTICLE WRITTEN BY BETH MAJOR, USGA
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ike Whan will join the USGA this summer as CEO, becoming the eighth top executive in USGA history. As USGA CEO, Whan will be responsible for leading all aspects of the association’s operations, including its core functions, essential programs, and human and financial resources. He will also represent the USGA on a variety of national and international boards. Last month, Whan announced his intention to step down as LPGA commissioner in 2021, after his organization completes a search for the next commissioner. His transition follows an impressive 11 years at the helm of the LPGA, during which the organization experienced historic growth in virtually every aspect of the business. “Mike Whan is a proven, successful and transformative leader, not only in the golf industry but throughout his entire career,” said USGA President Stu Francis, who oversaw the CEO search process. “He has shown a unique ability to understand how the environment is changing in global golf and how to quickly and thoughtfully adapt an organization to meet those changes. Importantly, Mike is already a trusted peer for so many key stakeholders in the industry, and his existing relationships will not only help the USGA, but will also help advance the game.” Whan started his career at the Procter & Gamble Company in 1987, where he rose to director of Marketing for oral care before leaving to pursue a passion for sports. Whan’s sports business career began at Wilson Sporting Goods as a vice president and general manager in the golf division. He joined the TaylorMade Golf Company as vice president of Marketing in 1995 and later served as vice president of Sales and Marketing and executive vice president/general manager for TaylorMade-Adidas Golf. In 2002, Whan became the president and CEO of Mission Hockey, a hockey equipment company. Since joining the Ladies Professional Golf Association in 2010, Whan increased the number of tournaments on the LPGA Tour’s schedule to 34 from 24, increased purses from $41.4 million to $76.5 million, and grew television hours from 125 hours per season to more than 500 hours. Under his leadership, the LPGA became a truly global
After a successful tenure at the LPGA, Mike Whan will become the eighth lead executive in the USGA's history. (Michael Reaves/Getty Images)
business – with players, tournaments, sponsors and fans coming from all over the world. Currently, the LPGA Tour is televised in over 170 countries each week. Whan’s leadership resulted in the expansion of the LPGA to now include both the Symetra Tour and a recently announced joint venture with the Ladies European Tour, as well as a nearly 50% increase in the LPGA’s teaching division. Whan’s focus on growing the game for junior girls has led to a significant expansion of the LPGA-USGA Girls Golf Program, which had 5,000 members when he joined the organization to 90,000 girls now engaged in the program. “As someone who grew up loving this game, I have always had huge respect for the USGA and its role in leading our sport,” said Whan. “The game has given me so much throughout my life, both personally and
professionally. I know I have a lot to learn, but I’m truly excited about this role, as it gives me the opportunity to not only give back to the game, but to also work hard to leave it stronger.” Current USGA CEO Mike Davis, who joined the USGA in 1990 and became the Association’s seventh executive director in 2011 and first CEO in 2016, will depart later this year to team with Tom Fazio II in a new course design venture, Fazio & Davis Golf Design. “I’ve had the pleasure of working with Mike Whan for many years and I view him as a trusted, strategic leader who has a proven track record of building collaborative partnerships,” said Davis. “I know the USGA will be in great hands, and I look forward to partnering with Mike to ensure a smooth and successful transition for the USGA.”
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ASGCA ANNOUNCES 2020 DESIGN EXCELLENCE RECOGNITION
Program Honorees
NINTH YEAR OF ANNUAL PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS PROJECTS DEMONSTRATING INNOVATION AND PROBLEM-SOLVING SKILLS. BY GOLF COURSE INDUSTRY
Chris Wilczynski's work at Blythefield (Michigan) Country Club was honored as part of the ASGCA's 2020 Design Excellence Recognition Program. Photo courtesy of ASGCA
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he ninth annual American Society of Golf Course Architects Design Excellence Recognition Program honorees have been named. These golf facilities have been cited for their work with ASGCA members in addressing unique design challenges. Since its creation, the Design Excellence Recognition Program has highlighted the innovation and problem-solving skills required of today’s golf course designs, from new 18-hole layouts to renovations to new and updated practice facilities. The 2020 nominations were reviewed by a panel of golf industry leaders, including representatives of the Club Management Association of America, Golf Course Builders Association of America and Golf Course Superintendents Association of America.
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The recognized courses are: • Blythefield Country Club, Belmont, Michigan/ Chris Wilczynski, ASGCA • Cutalong, Mineral, Virginia/Tom Clark, ASGCA • PING Proving Grounds – Professional Demo Center, Phoenix/Forrest Richardson, ASGCA • The Links at Sagewood, Phoenix/Gary Brawley, ASGCA • White Eagle Golf Club, Naperville, Illinois/ Todd Quitno, ASGCA “This may be the most diverse group of projects we have seen in the history of Design Excellence,” ASGCA vice president Jason Straka said. “I congratulate the facilities and the architects they have worked with in proving, once again, that there is an art and a science to golf course architecture. Best of all, golfers in these communities are benefiting from this impressive work.”
Blythefield Country Club, Belmont, Michigan/ Chris Wilczynski, ASGCA Blythefield, host to the Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give, was designed more than 90 years ago by William B. Langford and Theodore J. Moreau. A renovation has restored the course and Club to its original splendor. Improvements included: • New state-of-the-art two acre short-game practice facility • 12,000 square foot putting green and putting course • New tees for each hole to lengthen and shorten the course • Repositioning and rebuilding of all bunkers with the Better Billy Bunker System • Fairway realignment and widening • All greens expanded to their original shapes and sizes
ALLIED UPDATES • New internal drainage system for each green Tree removal has also opened the site panoramas, restored a cleaner look and created the width for each hole that Langford and Moreau intended. Cutalong, Mineral, Virginia/Tom Clark, ASGCA Conceived in 2000 as a 27-hole facility with 350 homes on 1,000 acres, after four owners, three environmental firms, four engineering firms, three superintendents and two golf contractors, it morphed into an 18-hole course with huge practice facilities and a 900-home development with sewer and water. Once construction began in earnest, even though three holes were grown in and five holes rough graded, only 11 holes were finished in 2019 mainly due to the lack of available irrigation water. In 2020, the last seven holes were completed. The 1,000 acres was an early 20th century mining operation with abandoned vertical shafts, railroad beds, wash basins, ruins and a contaminated stream as a water source. The site was completely cleaned of debris, and reseeded to fescue and millet to form some topsoil. The water was neutralized with a separate mixing pond of well water, lime and limestone. With the assistance of consultant Ron Whitten, the original concept was, and still remains, to create a composite course like the National Golf Links of Classic architecture from Classic designers. As Lake Anna is near several Civil War battlefields, aspects of some holes are based by19th Century fortresses and defenses. Because Cutalong rests atop a defunct mining operation, certain holes reflect that heritage as well. PING Proving Grounds – Professional Demo Center, Phoenix/Forrest Richardson, ASGCA The challenge was to develop a showcase practice green with .08-inch tolerance for 0 percent, .5 percent, 1 percent, 1.5 percent and 2 percent putting by PING Tour Professionals, combined with a practice bunker capable of being emptied and replaced with specific sand type for club testing. All of this within a small, 8,000 square foot space to provide highly accurate putting surface tolerances to use and test new clubs. The putting and chipping area must offer slopes and breaks with surrounding terrain that approximates real-world chipping conditions.
The design also needed to accommodate the robotic PING Launch Monitor contained in the test building adjacent to the green area. Safety relative to this area required a layout that allowed access to the adjacent practice range while permitting security to isolate all areas when prototype equipment is being demonstrated or tested. The design required careful integration to PING’s testing equipment. Detailed GPS slope analysis of the finished green surface is aligned with putt tracking technology so putts can be measured and compared to cross-slope, gradient and green speed. The Links at Sagewood, Phoenix/Gary Brawley, ASGCA A new putting course was commissioned as part of the Phase II expansion of the Sagewood, Senior Living Community in Phoenix, converting 50,000 square feet of open space into a worldclass amenity for the 600 residents. The Owner’s directive was to build the highest quality, natural playing surface putting course that would be a fun and unique challenge for the residents. Creating a large putting surface rather than 18 individual holes lends itself to more playing options in the daily set-up. The result is an 18hole layout that can also be played in reverse. In addition, golfers have a 9-hole routing and a superintendent’s choice routing so that over a fourweek period the golf course will play different each week. Residents are also encouraged to explore the putting green and have fun with whatever way they choose to play the course that day. Schaumburg Golf Club/Schaumburg Park District, Schaumburg, Illinois/Todd Quitno, ASGCA, and Bob Lohmann, ASGCA Celebrating 25 years under Park District ownership, the golf course infrastructure was inadequate and needed upgrading. Challenges included: layering built up on greens above original construction constricted water and air flow; bunkers 20-plus years old suffered from contamination, poor drainage, and lacked strategic value; desire to enhance forward teeing system to build new clientele; major flooding/drainage issues on several holes resulted in extended downtime and loss of revenue; and inadequate practice facilities.
Solutions have been well-received by the Park District and golfers, including: • Work completed in three, 9-hole phases (18 always open) to maximize revenues. • Two holes rerouted to alleviate flooding, which also allowed for practice range expansion. • The expanded driving range grass tee (fescue) regenerates quickly due to its strong roots, minimizing divot damage and allowing regrowth within days. • Re-built greens (USGA construction) and new bentgrass are providing much greater resiliency. • New bunkers, with aggregate liners and premier sand, require minimal maintenance and have greatly improved strategic options.\ • Tee complexes and fairways are thriving with the new bent providing stronger rooting and drought tolerances and savings in fungicide. White Eagle Golf Club, Naperville, Illinois/Todd Quitno, ASGCA The number, size and position of bunkers across the 27-hole facility led to a renovation project focused on sand reduction and repositioning. Bunkers were expansive and cumbersome to maintain, plus often contaminated following years of storm damage. Several greens were also an issue, either sporting slopes that were too steep to manage reasonable pin positions, too small and in need or expansion, or having internal drainage issues. New bunkering program and expanded bentgrass areas have made the course interesting for members of all playing abilities while adding a needed spark for membership recruitment. Solutions included: • Bunker square footage reduced from 160,000 square feet to less than 80,000 square feet • In areas where bunkers were removed, bentgrass was added to expand fairway landing areas and create dynamic roll-off and roll-on features around the greens. • Bunker maintenance labor has been reduced dramatically requiring minimal daily work (touch-ups) and virtually no storm cleanup. With bentgrass expanded to bunker edges, and rolling faces flashed high with sand, the final look is unique to the area and has resulted increased member recruitment opportunities.
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HOW WILL A BIDEN PRESIDENCY IMPACT CLUBS? NCA FORECASTS
2021 Government Relations BY JOE TRAUGER
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s we entered 2021, there were a number of tough issues and opportunities for the club community at the local, state and federal levels. While the development and approval of multiple vaccines for COVID-19 occurred much faster than some believed possible, best estimates right now are that it will be May or June before any reasonable level of uptake of a vaccine by the public. This, no doubt, will continue to affect clubs around the country who are facing varying levels of restrictions on their operations. The issues surrounding COVID-19 will continue to dominate discussions in Washington and state capitals in the months ahead, but there are other issues certain to come up that will affect clubs. In the spring of 2020, the National Club Association (NCA) published a State Legislative Response Manual for clubs in anticipation of increased activity at the state and local level. Some of the key points in the manual are for clubs to form coalitions by reaching out to other clubs to coordinate efforts, develop a compelling message and deploying resources to make your case to policymakers. Those resources don’t need to be financial in nature; it could be email campaigns from employees and members who are willing to engage with their contacts or representatives to make their support or opposition known. If you haven’t downloaded the manual, I urge you to visit NCA’s website (nationalclub.org/state-legislative-responsemanual/) and take a look. It has foundational knowledge and links to every state’s governor and state legislature to get you started on making a plan. Property taxes are likely to be reviewed in many states as municipalities and states look for revenue to fill the holes left by COVID-19. Indeed,
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several states were heading that direction prior to the pandemic. States are also making or already made moves to increase minimum wages, which will impact the budgets of most clubs to some degree. Other areas states may pursue are dues taxes or even taxes on initiation fees. Changes Under the Biden Administration NCA continues to gauge how policies will shift from a regulatory standpoint during a Biden presidency, but it’s fair to say there will be dramatic shifts in approach on the environment and labor issues. President Biden has appointed former Secretary of State John Kerry as Climate Czar and rejoined the Paris Climate Agreement already this year. A significant change from the previous administration is the reintroduction of a social cost of carbon component when adopting new regulations or revising old ones. In the environment space we could see revisions to the Navigable Waters Protection rule formerly known as Waters of the United States (WOTUS) that many believe was weakened by the Trump Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). It’s also possible rules surrounding the use of pesticides, herbicides and fungicides could be revisited in some form. Labor issues will also be shifting significantly and there may be revisions of many of the policies adopted by the Trump Administration in the areas of independent contractor status and worker classification, shifts in National Labor Relations Board decisions, and many others. While much of the labor policies President Biden ran on would require legislation to pass Congress, such as the business-opposed Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, the potential for passage of these policies is dependent on the ability of leadership
to pass them with a much narrower majority for Democrats in the House of Representatives and an evenly divided Senate with Vice President Harris holding the tie-breaking vote. The same holds true for an increase in the federal minimum wage and paid time off. The minimum wage hasn’t been increased since 2009 and many believe is long overdue for an increase. Advocacy in 2021 There are opportunities NCA will be looking at in 2021. We will continue our work to secure additional avenues of coronavirus relief for clubs to access. NCA has been pushing Congress to make 501(c)(7) clubs eligible for Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans for the past year and the latest round of coronavirus relief does expand the program to include them—unfortunately, things are not entirely clear the PPP will be available due to Small Business Administration regulations with respect to membership organizations. We will continue to push for inclusion in the PPP. Many clubs were able to participate in the employee retention tax credit (ERTC) and for those who did, it was likely a better option than the PPP loans even if they were forgiven. It is expected the ERTC will be extended through the end of 2021. I know most of us are looking for 2021 to bring some sense of normalcy in our every day lives and our political discourse. Though we still face significant challenges, there are opportunities ahead—which is an apt description for this year. Joe Trauger is NCA’s Vice President of Government Relations. He can be reached at trauger@nationalclub.org or 202-822-9822.
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Jordan Elected 85th President OF
GOLF COURSE SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
ELECTION TOOK PLACE AS PART OF THE VIRTUAL 2021 GOLF INDUSTRY SHOW BY THE GOLF WIRE
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awrence, Kan. – Mark F. Jordan, the certified golf course superintendent (CGCS) and natural resource leader at Westfield Country Club in Westfield Center, Ohio, was elected to a one-year term as president of the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America (GCSAA) at the association’s annual meeting Feb. 4, held in conjunction with the Golf Industry Show. He is the 85th president in the association’s history. Jordan served as vice president of the association in 2020 and has been a member of the association’s board of directors since 2014. A 34-year member of GCSAA, Jordan is also a member and past president of the Northern Ohio GCSA. Jordan has served as the natural resource leader at Westfield CC since 2007, but has been with the club since 1988, previously serving as general manager, club manager, superintendent and assistant superintendent. Prior to Westfield CC, Jordan had stints as an assistant superintendent at Winding Hollow Golf Club in New Albany, Ohio, and Hyde Park Golf and Country Club in Cincinnati.
“As Col. John Morley was establishing GCSAA in 1926, he used the altruistic principles of justice, faithful brotherhood and generous benevolence as foundational elements. These timeless principles continue to guide the association today,” Jordan said. “I am humbled and honored to lead this same organization that Col. Morley and every single president before me has led.” He graduated from the Ohio State University – ATI in Wooster, Ohio, with an associate of science degree in turfgrass management; and the Ohio State University in Columbus with a Bachelor of Science degree in agronomy. Other elected officers were Kevin P. Breen, CGCS and golf course superintendent at La Rinconada Country Club in Los Gatos, Calif., as vice president, and Kevin P. Sunderman, CGCS, director of grounds at Isla Del Sol Yacht and Country Club in St. Petersburg, Fla., as secretary/treasurer.
Board members Jeff L. White, CGCS and superintendent at Indian Hills Country Club in Mission Hills, Kan.; T.A. Barker, CGCS and superintendent at Fore Lakes Golf Course in Taylorsville, Utah; and Paul L. Carter, CGCS and superintendent at Bear Trace at Harrison Bay in Harrison, Tenn., were elected to serve again, while Marc E. Weston, CGCS and superintendent at Indian Hill Country Club in Newington, Conn. , was newly elected to the board. Douglas D. Dykstra, CGCS, golf course superintendent at White Mountain Country Club in Pinetop, Ariz., continues his service on the board. John R. Fulling Jr., CGCS, grounds and facilities manager at Kalamazoo (Mich.) Country Club, will serve as immediate past president, while past president Rafael Barajas, CGCS and the director of golf course operations at Boca Grove Golf and Tennis Club in Boca Raton, Fla., retired from board service.
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MOVERS & SHAPERS
GCBAA HOLDS 2021 BOARD OF
Directors Election
GCBAA HOLDS THEIR 2021 BOARD OF DIRECTORS ELECTION UNDER THE PRESIDENCY OF JUDD DUININCK WITH DUININCK GOLF.
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ith the 2021 election, there were two Builder and two Associate Board positions open. Newly elected to the board is Wayne Deker with The Toro Company. Re-elected to the Board are Jon O'Donnell with Heritage Links; Greg Hufner with Total Turf Golf Services; and Manny Pina with Ewing Irrigation. Their two-year term began on February 2, 2021. Remaining GCBAA Board of Directors are Chris
Caccavale with Caterpillar Inc. (Secretary); Kevin Grieder, Sunbelt Rentals; Chris Hill, Course Crafters LLC; Pat Karnick, Wadsworth Golf Construction Company (Past President); Matt Lohmann, Wadsworth Golf Construction Company; John McDonald II, McDonald & Sons, Inc. (President Elect); Rick Shriver, HARCO Fittings; Jason Sloan, Frontier Golf; Blake Thomas, Regency Wire & Cable; Jon Truttmann, Hunter Industries (Vice President); and Tom Works, Landscapes Unlimited LLC (Treasurer).
We would like to thank Rick Williamson with LASCO Fittings for his service and dedication to the Board these past few years. We would also like to thank Barry Farrell with Hydrema U.S. Inc. and Mike Crone of Landirr, Inc. for running in the election and hope all three will consider running again in the future. If you are interested in engaging in the GCBAA Board and learning more about the role of a GCBAA Board of Director for the 2022 election, please contact the GCBAA office.
GOLF INC. MAGAZINE RECOGNIZES THE
“10 Gurus of Golf Course Construction”
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n a recent Golf Inc. Magazine publication, Jennifer Davies wrote: “we recognize unsung heroes who influence the industry through their expertise and innovation. Golf Inc. contacted leaders from throughout the industry, on both the design side and the shovel side, and identified 10 gurus who are shaping the future: five builders and five vendors”. Congratulations to the following GCBAA Members for being recognized as part of the “10 Gurus”:
Builders: • Jon O’Donnell, GCBAA Charter Member and Certified Builder – Heritage Links • Matt Lohmann, GCBAA Charter Member and Certified Builder – Wadsworth Golf Construction Company • Darryl Bartlett, GCBAA Charter Member and Certified Builder – NMP Golf Construction Corp. • Mike Crone, GCBAA Charter Member and Certified Builder – Landirr, Inc. • Jason Nau & Jason Sloan, GCBAA Certified Builder – Frontier Golf
Vendors: • Scott Pool, GCBAA Member - Greenscan 3D • Willie Slingerland, GCBAA Member – Watertronics, Inc. • Ellen Davis, GCBAA Charter Member – SportZmix Solutions – Waupaca Sand & Solutions
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DLF PICKSEED IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE ADDITION OF
Scott DeBolt
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cott DeBolt has joined our Professional Turf Sales Team as an Account Manager. Scott joins the team after spending the past 28 years working in the grass seed industry, with strong focus on the golf market both in the US and abroad. He has built a career in the golf industry supporting distribution. Scott adds a wealth of knowledge in that area to our sales team as both a salesperson and another expert in the field that both our team and distributor partners can lean on for advice. Scott’s addition to our DLF Pickseed and Seed Research of Oregon team exemplifies our commitment to providing industry-leading knowledge and expertise 22 GCBAA Earth Shaping News | Winter Edition
DLF Pickseed is pleased to announce
in all areas in the turf market. He will be working with distributors with a focus on Golf, Sports Turf and Landscape markets. Scott lives in Franklin Tennessee and will continue to work out of his home office located there. DLF Pickseed was formed in 2013 when DLF acquired Pickseed Canada and Pickseed USA. DLF was founded in 1906 and is the global market leader in the research, development, production, distribution of turfgrass and forage crop seed. DLF is owned by 3,000 Danish seed growers and has subsidiaries or sales offices in 22 countries around the world. email: scott.debolt@dlfna.com
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Sod Solutions ANNOUNCES THE HIRE OF NEW FLORIDA TERRITORY MANAGER
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od Solutions is excited to announce Mark Kann has accepted the position of Florida Territory Manager. He will begin employment in February, bringing over 25 years of experience in the turfgrass industry to the company and who for the past 14 years has run the turf research facility for the University of Florida (UF) Plant Science Research and Education Unit in Citra, Florida. “Mark Kann brings both an extensive professional background and impressive educational credentials into his new role within the Florida turfgrass market. He has clearly demonstrated his interest and expertise to work with producers throughout the region as a sod professional and will be a resource for Sod Solutions. We are excited to welcome Mark as our new Florida Territory Manager,” said Tobey Wagner, president of Sod Solutions. Kann holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Turfgrass Science and a Master of Science degree in Horticulture Sciences from UF. In his Master’s program, Kann minored in Agricultural Education & Communication and Agronomy, with a research focus on evaluating educational programs. During his time as the Coordinator of Research Programs at the UF Plant Science Research and Educational Unit, Kann managed numerous research projects involving turfgrass, ornamentals and greenhouse production. “We are confident that Mark’s skills, background and personal values will prove to be great additions to our existing team,” said Christian Broucqsault, Sod Solutions chief operating officer. Prior to his role at the UF, Kann served as both Golf Course Superintendent and Assistant Superintendent at several golf clubs in Florida. These positions allowed Kann to learn the management of golf courses, to include irrigation, fertilizer and pesticide applications, planning, maintenance and more. “When I moved to Florida 25 years ago, I wanted a job on a golf course so I could play free golf. I started working in golf course maintenance and quickly moved up from raking bunkers to becoming a pesticide technician within a couple of years,” Kann said. “It was an exciting time for golf with Tiger Woods preparing to join the PGA, but also the beginning of environmentalists
questioning the negative environmental impacts of golf course maintenance.” Since then his passion for designing environmentally friendly golf courses expanded and changed his major from Landscape Architecture to Environmental Science while attending UF. Soon after changing his major, he met Ron Garl, a famous Golf Course architect, who gave him hope of designing golf courses himself one day. But, when the economy crashed and golf course construction halted, Kann embraced the Golf Course Maintenance path and eventually research. Kann has received numerous awards and scholarships from Florida horticulture and turfgrass entities and has held numerous leadership roles. “I have been extremely active in the turfgrass industry throughout my career, serving on the board of directors of several allied associations including the Florida Golf Course Superintendents Association (FGCSA), Florida Turfgrass Association (FTGA) and the Seven Rivers Golf Course Superintendents Association (SRGCSA),” Kann shared. He served as president of both the FGCSA and SRGCSA and was FGCSA Education/BMP Committee Chair for nearly a decade. “I played an integral role in helping to create the FGCSA Golf BMP Certification Program which was nationally recognized by the GCSAA for its importance to government relations,” he added. His hard work and impressive number of licenses and certifications prove that Kann will be an asset when it comes to taking his extensive turfgrass knowledge into the field as Territory Manager. Kann explained he has been able to work closely with researchers to see the good, bad and ugly of turfgrass research. In the golf course industry, he could diagnose the problems with grasses but in research, he was often restricted on what could be done to resolve issues. “Many of the breeding trials restricted the use of fungicides and insecticides, so I just had to sit back sometimes and let nature take its course. However, this provided me the opportunity to see many grasses thrive under minimal inputs and recognize its importance in helping to reduce negative environmental impacts,” he said.
Kann expressed he feels fortunate for having been able to work with Sod Solutions for the past 14 years during his role at UF. “I have always been impressed with the company’s mission, products and employees. I have seen them continue to grow and expand as a company and promote environmentally friendly turfgrasses which is something I feel very strongly about. I see this position as another great opportunity to serve the industry and share my passion, knowledge and experience of turfgrass,” Kann said. He will begin his position as Florida Territory Manager the second week of February 2021. “I have met so many great people from all sectors of the turfgrass industry throughout my career and look forward to keeping those relationships and creating many more as the Florida Territory Manager,” he concluded. When Kann isn’t focused on turfgrass, you will likely find him in the kitchen or enjoying the great outdoors. He enjoys making German, Cajun/Creole, Mexican and Italian dishes for large groups, such as for fellowship events at his church. He also spends his spare time golfing, fishing, biking, gardening and spending time on the water at nearby lakes or beaches. Sod Solutions has helped successfully develop and release to the market over 20 different turfgrass varieties over the past 27 years including Palmetto® and CitraBlue® St. Augustine, EMPIRE® and InnovationTM Zoysia and Celebration®, Latitude 36® and NorthBridge® Bermudagrass. The company is based in the Charleston, SC area. For all media inquiries, contact Media and Content Manager Cecilia Brown at cecilia@ sodsolutions.com or visit SodSolutions.com.
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PRATUM CO-OP ACQUIRES LANDMARK
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ALEM, OREGON, February 7, 2021 – The Pratum Co-op board of directors and management are excited to announce it is in the process of purchasing the turf division of Landmark Turf & Native Seed. Pending proper due diligence by both companies, the acquisition is expected to be finalized in early March 2021. Pratum will now market turf and forage grasses under both the Mountain View and Landmark brands. “We believe a two-brand strategy makes a lot of sense for our growing company,” says Pratum Co-op President Troy Kuenzi. Landmark’s seed is sold worldwide with focus on the sod, sports turf, golf, and landscape segments. Pratum will build
on the great brands and varieties that Landmark’s customers have come to appreciate. We want the Landmark customer to experience a seamless transition,” said Executive Vice President Aaron Kuenzi. Landmark’s Vice President John Brader said, “Pratum Co-op has an exceptional reputation of integrity, customer service and innovation. It’s a great fit. Pratum’s resources will fuel the growth of our business and provide opportunity to our turf team and customers.” Pratum Co-op of Salem, Oregon, established in 1946, is an independent and locally owned cooperative delivering agronomy, energy, research,
seed processing and marketing to 400 active members throughout Oregon. Combining the two brands, Pratum will market over 90 million pounds of turf, forage, and cover crop seed worldwide.
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BUFFALO GROVE, Ill. rofile Products announced the start of a gamechanging $9 million manufacturing expansion project, an important investment that will provide a significant increase in capacity, improved logistics and enhanced safety and quality systems for Profile’s sustainable product lines. This is the latest in a long chain of initiatives to further strengthen the company’s position as a leader in soil and vegetation management solutions, horticultural substrates and professional turf and sports field management. "We are continually looking for ways to elevate the industries we serve through our innovative products, state-ofthe-art facilities and educational initiatives," said Jim Tanner, president and CEO of Profile Products. "This expansion is a
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continuation of our commitment to meet our customers' needs and exceed their expectations by providing the best solutions for their environment." In 2019, Profile added a second fiber processing plant in Conover, North Carolina, which doubled plant capacity, created ultramodern greenhouses and added new fiber processing technologies. Since then, the company has grown significantly with the acquisitions of HydroStraw, a manufacturer of straw-based erosion control products, and Sunterra Horticulture, a leading sphagnum peat moss producer. The new investments will add significantly more fiber processing capacity, high-tech packaging and modern warehousing in both its North Carolina and Rockford, Washington facilities. Additionally, Profile will continue to
invest in its leadership position in environmental stewardship by expanding several programs that prioritize using the highest recycled-content products available to its respective industries, including packaging. Profile has also eliminated more than 3.5 billion pounds of wood and paper from the waste stream and productively returned it to the environment. "When businesses choose to employ Profile products, they’re choosing to put the environment first," Tanner said. "We are proud to see more and more companies recognize the value of green design engineering, and our expansion will help to meet that growing demand." To help industry professionals understand the value of green design engineering and the effectiveness of the company’s hydraulically applied products, Profile has completed more than 1,200 lunch and learns in the past two years. Topics of lunch and learns include Profile’s latest forward-thinking product, ProGanics® DUAL™ Biotic Soil + Erosion Control among others. These educational initiatives have been a key part of Profile’s commitment to the industry. The expansion projects will be completed throughout the next year. These investments are part of Profile’s strategic growth plan. For more information on Profile Products, visit ProfileProducts.com.
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IMPROVED IRRIGATION SPURS
Course’s Resurgence ARTICLE BY GCM, WRITTEN BY HAL PHILLIPS
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ith its recent irrigation system overhaul, once-struggling Anthem Country Club near Las Vegas is singing a new tune. Stakeholders discuss overcoming obstacles both geographic and financial. When James Symons arrived at Anthem Country Club in 2018 to take over as its GCSAA Class A golf course superintendent, he hadn’t traveled far. He had spent the previous four years right across the street at Revere Golf Club, a cousin to his new posting in more ways than one. Del Webb had developed both properties, and both occupy the same dramatic, rock-strewn desert terrain south of Las Vegas. And both sported irrigation systems that weren’t nearly up to the task. The system at Anthem was a particular problem, 23 years old by that time — a lengthy tenure indeed in a place where water quality issues and 24/7 irrigation cycles prevail. The system had not been properly looped, meaning part of it meandered off into the landscape before deadending. This only exacerbated the most debilitating issue: pressure. The low point on this Hale Irwin/Keith Foster routing sits at 2,600 feet above sea level. The high point, the 15th and 16th holes, climbs to nearly 3,000. “That’s a lot of elevation for any pump to deal with,” says Symons, a 19-year GCSAA member. “We couldn’t run any heads at night on those holes, when the high-zone portion of our system was running. It made overseeding so difficult. It made everything difficult. There was simply not enough volume to deal with summer hot spots. We were constantly hand-watering and babying those areas. This was true all over the golf course, but especially up at No. 16.” Today, Symons can look back on this situation with a wisdom and good humor born of distance. After years of discussion, dramatic changes in plan and scope, a complete management overhaul, and fears of a membership exodus, the club broke ground on an irrigation renovation project in November 2019. Symons went with the IC System from Rain Bird. Heritage Links, a Houston-based contractor, installed it. The coronavirus pandemic hit about halfway through the process, yet that didn’t stop all affected holes from reopening May 1. In early August 2020, general manager Shelley Caiazzo was still a bit awed by the extent of the turnaround at Anthem — agronomically, operationally and psychically. “We typically do 2,900 rounds in June. In June 2020, we did 4,200, and July will be much the same,” Caiazzo explains. “When things shut down, golf was the only amenity open, and our members were exhausting the tee times. “The pandemic honestly worked in our favor in another way. For three solid weeks in April, the golf course was closed. It grew back in so beautifully, on account of proper irrigation and so little traffic. The golf course has never looked better. The membership has never been happier.” 26 GCBAA Earth Shaping News | Winter Edition
However, as Caiazzo and Symons would be the first to tell you, starting this story in November 2019 and fastforwarding to August 2020 leaves out the nitty and gritty portions of a long, convoluted but ultimately instructive narrative. A long time coming Symons’ predecessor started to see signs of irrigation failure in 2014, and the compromised nature of the system should surprise no one. Las Vegas may be the most demanding golf course irrigation market in the country. The soil is terrible for growing grass. It’s even worse when it comes to laying new irrigation pipe, thanks to all the rock and caliche, a naturally occurring calcium carbonate that binds to other materials like concrete. The water quality is no bargain, either. It takes a heavy toll on systems that, because of the arid climate, are running every night, all year long. By 2018, everyone at Anthem knew the old system was on its last legs. But because of these geographic factors and a host of others, the prospect of replacing it had essentially spooked and paralyzed the entire club ecosystem. Staff and membership could see course conditions were suffering, but replacing the irrigation system raised the specter of a massive member assessment to cover the cost. In the end, the irrigation renovation that threatened to sink the club saved the club. And John Pollok, Rain Bird’s district sales manager, is pretty sure he knows why. “The biggest problem in Las Vegas isn’t the soil or the quality of the water — it’s the cost of that terrible water,” says Pollok, a former golf course superintendent. “I managed Spanish Trail Country Club for three years and rebuilt 27 holes there. When you look at the cost, it was $1.3 million each year for water and the power to push it. We were spending $42 for every person who played the course, just for water and power. And that puts enormous cost pressure on everything else you do at a club. “It’s expensive to install a new irrigation system anywhere, especially in Las Vegas. But in the end, you have to look at what an old, inefficient, leaky system is costing you. I sell irrigation systems, but these are the facts. And if you can identify the right people at a club and show them the facts, they might just start to listen. The folks at Anthem did. Eventually, they understood that if they put several million into an irrigation system, they would actually recoup that cost in 10 years.” Turning the tide In retrospect, it’s stunning to observe just how far from this realization the brain trust at Anthem had been — technically, financially and operationally — as recently as March 2018. “The irrigation renovation had been up for discussion with the board for several years by that time,” says Caiazzo, who served as membership director prior to 2018. “Financially, they just couldn’t make it work.” One reason the numbers didn’t work was how the proposed system was being considered.
“My colleague, Bob Bryant, was first contacted about this job in 2016,” says Dave Taylor, an irrigation designer with Costa Mesa, Calif.-based Bryant Taylor Gordon Golf. “They were looking at doing this project in four phases back then — fresh water for the greens, high zone reclaimed, low zone reclaimed, then clubhouse and fitness center. They talked first about a complete replacement. That was too expensive, so then they talked about fixing only the problem areas. It started to get real complicated. “By the time it first went out to bid, in early 2018, contractors were being asked to bid on multiple options on a single golf hole. With the original phasing plan the club wanted to pursue, the contractor would have needed to dig through many of the golf holes multiple times, destroying and repairing work done in earlier phases. Just not a very workable plan.” Not surprisingly, that bid process went poorly. This added another layer of pressure to the club’s management team as the course fell ever further into disrepair. Fixing that situation was going to cost a lot of money — and the membership was not thrilled with the idea of footing that bill. “I was the membership director at the time, and I can tell you, the club was struggling,” Caiazzo recalls. “People in key positions were resigning right and left. The golf course had become virtually unplayable the summer before. That started the ball rolling, and it just kept going south.” The superintendent and general manager resigned that spring of 2018. Symons arrived from across the street, and Caiazzo from just down the hall. The board at Anthem also saw fit to retain Arnold Palmer Golf Management/ Century Golf Partners to consult on club matters, which, at a private club, as Caiazzo would be the first to tell you, are really just membership matters. “APGM came in and said, ‘Here’s what we’re looking to do: We need to sell this number of memberships at this price, which will generate the additional capital dollars needed to kick-start this irrigation project without an assessment,’” she says. “And that’s exactly what happened. They arrived in May 2018, and we began the membership drive that September. Then it just took off. We added 50 new members in the course of that year.” News of these sales — and the fading specter of some massive irrigation-related assessment — had an immediate effect on the existing membership, Caiazzo says. Rampant gossip about a potential assessment/exodus was replaced by the will to move ahead with what needed to be done. Solving Anthem Country Club’s irrigation puzzle Of course, the attitudinal change within the club did nothing to mitigate the complicated engineering at play here. “I don’t think it’s possible to underestimate the importance of a good irrigation design. That’s true anywhere, but it’s especially relevant on a site like the one at Anthem,” says Tim Hubbard, vice president of irrigation services at Heritage Links, which handles dozens of
MOVERS & SHAPERS According to Symons, “It takes a talented crew that respects the golf course to be able to bust out the caliche, install the pipe and put the grass back like nothing had been done there. Heritage has confidence and efficiency born of really knowing what they’re doing.” High praise, but this leaves out perhaps the most important contractor obligation — the tightrope that is keeping the old irrigation system running while installing the new one. “We had an irrigation break one day on the old system,” Symons recalls. “The Heritage guys came over, dug it up and fixed it. No charge. It would’ve been beyond us.”
A much-needed irrigation upgrade that was years in the making is finally a reality at Anthem Country Club, an 18-hole layout near Las Vegas, and the results have been dramatic from both an agronomic and an operational standpoint. Photos courtesy of James Symons
irrigation-specific renovations each year. “James Symons is a very bright guy. He and the team at Anthem knew from a commonsense standpoint what needed to be done. But there are huge intricacies to address on a job like this one, and Bob Bryant was the guy who put the pen to paper and did the math.” A lot of that math was related to pipe diameter and the impact on system performance. “Rain Bird heads require 60 to 70 psi just to pop open and run,” Hubbard says. “Bob had to design a system to go up the hill and account for the entire system but also all the friction loss. That was part of the problem with the old system. There was a lot of 3- to 4-inch pipe out there.” When water is pushed through piping, friction is created as the water rubs against the internal pipe circumference. That friction, in turn, creates pressure loss. The faster the water passes through the piping, the more friction loss results. The problem is compounded by smaller pipe sizes, Hubbard says. Doubling flow in larger pipe means less friction loss. Symons and Bryant went with 16-inch pipe down to nothing smaller than 6 inches on the new system (the old system ranged from 14 inches down to 3), an example of long-term decision-making in action, because 16-inch pipe is more expensive than, say, 12-inch pipe. Editor’s note: To tackle irrigation system deficiencies at the root — rather than just reacting to them — a Colorado superintendent put his turf to the stress test. The results debunked some long-held beliefs. Read more in An irrigation evaluation. In nearly every respect, long-term thinking won out over short-term thinking on the Anthem job. The Heritage Links team even prevailed in persuading the homeowners association at Anthem to do the right thing. “We worked with the HOA on a number of matters, but the road crossings were critical,” Hubbard says. “There were no less than six of them. We considered using the existing PVC that ran under those roads, but as I said to James, ‘I’d hate to see you spend all this money and have the PVC under the road fail.’ We got the HOA on board. When everything is new, there is far less to worry about.” Planning pays off Neither Caiazzo nor Symons had any interest in coming
at this renovation piecemeal. Four phases would never have worked. However, they did resolve to break the project into two phases. The “high zone” at the highest elevation would be tackled first at a cost of just under $4 million. The club used the membership boost to pay for most of that sum. It borrowed the rest and today is dismissing that debt with double payments, Caiazzo reports. The second phase, tackling the lower-lying holes, may be undertaken as soon as 2021. “Every year, we were putting Band-Aids on that old system,” says Caiazzo, who adds that Bud White, the national agronomist with Century Golf Partners, proved another valuable resource during the planning stages. “We had to ask ourselves, ‘Do we want to wait until it crashes?’ No. We made that determination and laid it out to the board and the membership. We felt it was critical to go forward with this.” Once again, they found an able ally in Bob Bryant. “With the management changeover, Bob recognized the opportunity to change course,” Dave Taylor says. “We also ended up changing direction in irrigation products to fit with the desires of the new superintendent. This resulted in a completely new set of irrigation control system plans. They went from a central-satellite system to a two-wire (decoder) system. This also resulted in the need to integrate the old system still in use on the low zone with the new system being installed on the high zone, as each system is inherently different in how it operates within the irrigation computer. “I am completely convinced that the only reason the project got done at all and was such a complete success was the diligence and tenacity Bob displayed in dealing with all the changes in direction this project took, then coming up with a project strategy that was both workable and costeffective.” A booster pump from Watertronics was ultimately included in Bryant’s design, to improve pressures at the highest elevations. Heritage Links broke ground in early November 2019. With that, Jorge Garcia, the firm’s superintendent on-site, set about tackling all the typical things that make irrigation renovations in Vegas such a trial — road crossings, the caliche, the tight hole corridors, the terrible soil, the poor water quality, and, lest we pay it too little attention, the damned caliche.
A fitting tribute to Bob Bryant By now, you may have noticed that, among all the people who helped make the Anthem Country Club irrigation renovation a success, we’ve not yet heard from Bryant himself. That’s because he never saw the finished product and precious little of the installation, both of which relied so heavily on his ingenuity. “We lost Bob halfway through the construction process in mid-December 2019,” Taylor says. It was a lung condition, sudden and unexpected. “A lesser personality would have just kept the project as the owners originally envisioned it. Namely, keeping a lot of the existing system, patch-working adjustments in certain areas, and building the project in four phases, presumably over a four-year period. In my opinion, whether they are aware of it or not, the ownership has Bob to thank for many of the changes in direction that brought the project to where it ultimately landed. “He and I were friends over 45 years — friends well before we were business partners, our entire adult lives,” Taylor continues. “Bob was a captain in the Marine Corps, something that defined a lot of who he was in his adult life. But he was the smartest guy I knew, so far as irrigation goes. Just a really good handle on product materials and solutions, any irrigation system, golf or commercial or residential. Such a bright guy. So well respected by pretty much everyone in the industry. He could be tough, but always fair. Right on target about what should be done. Irrigation was his passion. He just knew everything there was to know about it. Bob was very active with the Golf Course Builders Association of America, and he really enjoyed the industry — but like me was a horrible golfer.” The GCBAA publicly mourned Bryant’s passing 12 months ago, noting his long involvement on its board of directors, the board of governors and the Rossi Award committee. He was also instrumental in the development and expansion of the “GCBAA Cost Estimating Guide for Golf Course Construction,” and he helped author the GCBAA Golf Course Irrigation Contractor Certification Program. “Bob worked on probably a third of the golf courses we designed,” Jack Nicklaus shared via the GCBAA Facebook page the week of Bryant’s passing. “I’ve always said that what goes on top of the ground is my vision. But there are a lot of talented people who work very hard on what goes beneath it. Bob was certainly one of those key individuals. He will be missed.” Hal Phillips is the managing director of golf and resorts for Mandarin Media, a public relations firm with offices in Portland, Maine; Park City, Utah; and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He is the former editor of Golf Course News. GCBAA Earth Shaping News | Winter Edition 27
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IN REMEMBRANCE
JAMES SNOW James Taft Snow, 68, of Basking Ridge, NJ, passed away on November 25, 2020, at home with his family, after a ten-year struggle with frontotemporal dementia. Jim was born on December 2, 1951, in Ithaca, NY, to the late Arthur Taft Snow, Jr., and Norma Eva Bailey. Raised in Trumansburg, NY, he was a 1970 graduate of Trumansburg Central School, where he was class president, and then received a BS and MS in horticulture from Cornell University. Jim continued to cherish his Trumansburg roots and connections throughout his life. For the last 21 years of his 35-year career at the U.S. Golf Association in Far Hills, NJ, Jim served as the national director of the Green Section and was a leader in fostering partnerships, education programs, and turfgrass research initiatives to make golf courses more sustainable and environmentally friendly. An excellent writer and public speaker, Jim also edited the Green Section Record publication and several important books about turfgrass science. In addition to his lifelong hobbies of nature photography, gardening, and genealogy research, Jim spent two decades as a Boy Scout leader for Troop 351 in Basking Ridge, where he enjoyed mentoring young people. Among the highlights of his life were several backpacking trips to various Western national parks with the Boy Scouts. Jim married Judith Mapes Lyman in 1984 and loved spending time with his family. He was a kind, loving, and easygoing husband and father. In addition to his wife, he is survived by his son, Kevin Snow of Bedminster, NJ, daughter Valerie Snow of Philadelphia, PA, sister Holly (Bob) Weatherby of Trumansburg, NY, and nephews Casey, Gregg, and Brian Weatherby. He also leaves sister-in-law Gwen (Patrick) Apfel of St. Johnsville, NY, and nephews, Eric and Alexandre Apfel. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions in Jim’s name may be made to: Audubon International, 120 Defreest Drive, Troy, NY 12180, https:// auduboninternational.org; the Michigan State University Turfgrass Information Center Endowment, Michigan State University Libraries, Attn: TIC Endowment, 366 W. Circle Dr., East Lansing, MI 48824, https://tic.msu.edu; or Boy Scout Troop 351, c/o Basking Ridge Presbyterian Church, 1 East Oak St., Basking Ridge, NJ 07920.
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DALE J WINCHESTER We are deeply saddened to share the news of the passing of Dale James Winchester, golf irrigation industry leader. Dale James Winchester passed away peacefully at home on Thursday morning, January 7th surrounded by family after a brief battle with cancer. Dale was cool, quirky and simple. He worked side by side with celebrities but preferred making best friends with the Holiday Oil and Albertson’s grocery clerks. He cared so much about the way a piece of wood fit together perfectly yet his desk was a constant mess. He took pride in the way he presented a fruit platter for a party, yet he rarely cared if his clothes matched. He was a Delta Million Miler that preferred road trips to National Parks over luxury beach vacations. Dale was a Utah native – Born in Salt Lake City, his family briefly moved to Park City and then on to Tooele for his high school days and beyond before settling in Sandy where he raised his family. Those that knew Dale will attest that in 78 years he rarely sat still. His life was filled with projects. Even as his pain increased, he still wanted to be out in the yard, picking tomatoes or fixing sprinklers. He loved projects big and small and he gave the same attention to detail no matter the size. Everything he built was a masterpiece. Dale spent 50 years in the golf irrigation industry where he was known as a pioneer and an icon. Most of his career was spent working with the world’s leading golf course architects as an irrigation designer and project consultant. He spent 30 years as the chief irrigation consultant for Arnold Palmer and loved his relationship with Mr. Palmer and the course design staff. In his lifetime, he was able to work on over 300 golf projects on 6 continents. He received many awards over the years for his innovation, knowledge and dedication to the business, but in his mind his greatest reward was the friendships he built. Our family is so grateful for the friends and colleagues that have reached out from around the world to share their love.
Dale loved his Heavenly Father. In his last months his family could tell he was forming an even deeper relationship with his Savior, Jesus Christ. He loved to share his excitement and testimony through his weekly emails he titled “Remember and Reflect.” Sending these messages became his small way to share his love of the gospel of Christ. He served faithfully in many ways. He was a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of LatterDay Saints in California, he was a high-priest leader a member of his bishopric but his favorite calling of all was working in the church as a librarian. There, he was free to skip Sunday School and focus on his true calling – telling stories to anyone who would listen. If there was one thing to be said above all, he loved people. It was evident in the way he treated his family – especially his sweet wife Teri. His love and support of his family was unmatched in this world. He was so proud of his children and grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his mother and father (Helen and James) and his baby brother. He is survived by his loving wife Teri and his children Stephen (Angie), Erin, John (Lori), Courtney (Troy), Annie (Andrew) and Meredith (Brady), 21 grandchildren, sister Coral (Brent), and brother Randy (Trudy). A celebration of his life will take place next week. In true Dale fashion it will go on for days. A viewing will be held on Wednesday, January 13th from 5 pm – 8 pm. Funeral services will be held on Thursday, January 14th at 11 am. The funeral will also be available to live stream. All services will be held at Anderson & Goff Mortuary 11859 S. 700 E, Draper, UT 84020. A graveside service will be held at Larkin Cemetery in Sandy where he carefully chose his final resting place near the humming of the pump station that irrigates the beautiful property.
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