November/December 2012
TEE-OFF News
Reflections and Progress By Josh Heptig
Inside this issue:
President’s Message
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Meeting Schedules
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Around the Green
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GCSAA Update
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Highlights from Lowell Stone Charity Event
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Thank You to our Sponsors
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Official Publication of the Golf Course Superintendents Association of Central California. The purpose of this publication is information and education for the membership. Published bi-monthly by GCSACC 5322 N. Leonard Clovis, CA 93619 Phone (559) 298-4853 Fax (559) 298-6957 Email gcsacc@aol.com Bob Schneiderhan, Newsletter Chairman Mike Scott, CGCS, Editor
With the holiday season upon us, it is nice to review our accomplishments and attempt to discover how we can continue to improve. We are always striving to improve our Chapter and improve the services we offer to our members. This year we held a number of events at fantastic venues. Alisal Ranch and Dave Rosenstrauch, one of our most southern courses, kicked off the year in January. We made our way up the coast in March to visit Jason Pautsch at Hunter Ranch.Mike Swing and Visalia C.C. hosted our Equipment Demo Day in April, which included the
“Fairway Mow Off” and fantastic demos from nearly all of the major equipment manufacturers. Then off to Riverlakes with Harry , in Bakersfield during May, followed by San Joaquin C.C. and Kevin Wiles in June for the Al Glaze Memorial Scholarship Tournament. If you missed either of these two events you missed out! Our current board was elected in the presence of Scott Walwyn at Village C.C. in Lompoc in September and then back to the Valley in November for our Charity Tournamentwas hosted by Mike Swing at Visalia C.C. This schedule included every area our association repre-
sents, with the exception of Santa Barbara. Our membership numbers decreased slightly this year as we lost 6 members. This is better than the national average, but we want to retain all of the members we have. Our meeting attendance averaged 35 attendees per meeting and is up slightly vs. last year. Some additional data includes, 79 (56%) of our 141 members never attended a meeting last year. 33 of the 141 attended at least one meeting, 10 attended two meetings, and 19 attended 3 or more meetings. The most surprising statistic is that our (Continued on page 3)
2012 Holiday Event by Mike Cline It’s almost time for our annual chapter Christmas Party, or Holiday Party for those of you who feel the need to be politically correct. If you’ve never been to this event, you don’t know what you’re missing. As a GCSACC member, it’s a chance for you to bring
your wife, husband, or significant other to a chapter event and have a wonderful evening. Heck, even if you come stag, you’ll have a great time. Good food, great drink, a fun atmosphere with people who love the holidays and use this event to catch up with friends they don’t often get
to see. Again this year, we will end the evening with a White Elephant Gift Exchange which always gets the crowd worked up. You can bring a gift as a couple or as an individual. This can be a really nice gift, or it might be something you’ve wanted to re-gift. We take (Continued on page 4)