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FORE YOUR INFORMATION INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
President’s Message
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Meeting Schedule
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Wilber’s News
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New Web Site
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Government Relations
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Turf Tips
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Sponsor Thank You
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Woodbridge Highlights
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Del Rio Highlights
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Dates to Remember September 23, 2010 Annual President’s Cup Gray’s Crossing Host Superintendent Mike Cornette
Sierra Nevada GCSA An Affiliate Chapter of the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America
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SIERRA NEVADA GCSA AND CENTRAL CALIFORNIA GCSA BY KEVIN FRIESEN, CGCS Del Rio Country Club and Superintendent David Bermudez hosted the 15th annual Central California/Sierra Nevada Joint meeting. Del Rio C.C. was the meeting site of the first joint meeting and it was great to be returning to this beautiful course. Dave has been Superintendent at Del Rio C.C. for over two years. Before the move up north, Dave was superintendent at Mountain Gate C.C. for 22 years, Mountain Gate was the first course to receive Audu-
bon Cooperative Sanctuary Certification in Los Angeles County and did so while Dave was there. Dave loves working outdoors, he and his best friend Lance (the course bird dog) love to cruise the course, working with and visiting the great staff and membership that make up Del Rio. One of Dave’s occasional visitors is the original course superintendent, Cliff Wagoner, retired CGCS, Cliff stops by just to make sure Dave’s doing his job. Some of Dave’s
current course challenges are converting the Bermuda/Rye/Poa fairways to pure Bermuda. This is a challenge not only to convince the membership of the fine playability of dormant Bermuda in the winter, but to get the Bermuda to break out of dormancy when we have a cool, wet spring season like this years . To try and meet this challenge, Del Rio has decided to convert the first fairway on the “Oaks” course to the hybrid bermuda variety Tifway II. The hybrid (Continued on page 7)
2010 SCHOLARSHIP AND RESEARCH TOURNAMENT BY JIM ALWINE For the second year in a row, the Sierra Nevada GCSA was privileged to play Woodbridge Golf and Country Club at the annual Scholarship and Research Tournament. As always, Jim Husting, CGCS and his staff had the course in remarkable condition.
The customer service was top notch both on and off the course. Big thanks go out to all the employees of Woodbridge for being so accommodating to all our needs and requests. Thanks to Jim Husting especially, for putting up with a bunch of hacks two years back-to-
back. I hope we left the course with less ball marks than when we arrived, that’s the way it should work. Attendance this year was down slightly from years past. The economy, conflicting (Continued on page 5)