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Memories

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Former President George W. Bush visits Ridgewood Country Club in Waco, TX. And who is that smiling face on the left? Is it Dan Wegand, CGCS, or possibly a new presidential running mate?

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Gary BrooksField Sales Representative Tel. (817) 594-7164Fax (817) 594-7164Cell (817) [email protected]

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President’s Message 4

Memorial Golf Course—Where History Abounds! Submitted by Jason Harsh, GCS, Memorial Park Golf Course 6

Bunkers: Can Your Golf Course Afford Them? Chris Hartwiger and Pat O’Brien, USGA Green Section, SE Region Reprinted with permission from the USGA

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Around the State Your Local Chapter’s Calendar of Events 10

Mark Your Calendars!

Inside this issue: Texas Trophy 2009, the Cost of Bunkers, Upcoming Chapter Events,

and More!

On the Cover: Hole #6, Memorial Golf Club in Houston, TX. This hole is a beautiful par 4, 388 yard challenge. Its water feature not only adds pleasing aesthetics,

but plenty of competition as well. Well-placed bunkers surround the green in back. Best to hit away, then take enough club for a second shot over the water.

Lone Star Links is the official publication of the Lone Star Golf Course Superintendents

Association. Direct all new items, letters, corrections, or advertisements to: Karen White, Executive Secretary, 2601 Green Oak Drive, Carrollton, TX 75010

972.307.8162—Phone; 972.662.1168—Fax; Email: [email protected]

2009 Texas Trophy September 13-15, 2009 Memorial Park Golf Course, Houston

North Texas GCSA Schedule

August 10—Education and Meeting, Thorntree Country Club, Desoto September 22—Education/TX Scottish Rite Hospital October 13—Annual Meeting Tour 18 Golf Course, Flower Mound November 9—Scholarship Tournament Mira Vista Golf Club, Fort Worth December 1—Crew Championship Woodhaven Country Club, Fort Worth

Contact: Brian Cloud, CGCS North Texas Chapter Executive

(817) 377-4552 www.ntgcsa.org

South Texas GCSA Schedule August 25—Superintendent/Pro Tournament Falcon Point Golf Course October 13—Meeting/Golf Tournament Cinco Ranch Golf Club November 9 —Meeting/Golf Tournament Willow Fork Golf Course December—TBA

Contact: Marian Takushi South Texas Executive Director

(281) 494-0094 www.stgcsa.org

Central Texas GCSA Schedule

August 10—Regular Meeting and Education Oak Hills Country Club, San Antonio October 6—Crew Event Roy Kizer Golf Club, Austin November 10—Annual Meeting & Education Harmons BBQ, Cibolo

Contact: Jana Gomillion Central Texas Executive Director

(512) 658-3145 www.ctgcsa.org

West Texas GCSA Schedule

August 11—Meeting, Tech Turfgrass Field Day, Texas Tech Oct. 26-28—23rd Annual Conference and Trade Show, The Coliseum, Snyder. Oct. 26—Golf Tournament, Sammy Baugh Golf Course

Contact: Pam Deeds

West Texas Executive Director (806) 383-6775 www.wtgcsa.org

Texas Gulf Coast GCSA Schedule

June 9—Meeting, Laredo Country Club August 4—Meeting, McAllen Country Club September 29—Vendors Day Tournament and Auction Victoria Country Club November 17—Annual Meeting Corpus Christi Country Club

Contact: Darlene Curlee Texas Gulf Coast Executive Secretary

(361) 850-7974 www.tgcsa.org

Lone Star GCSA Schedule

September 13-15—Texas Trophy Championship Memorial Park Golf Course, Houston

Contact: Karen White Lone Star GCSA Executive Director

(972) 307-8162 www.lsgcsa.org

Texas Turfgrass Association

TTA Annual Conference and Show December 12-14—Austin

Contact: Shirley Duble, Executive Director

(979) 690-2201 www.texasturf.com

Jim Moore, Director, USGA Green Section, Construction Education Program

The Texas Trophy Championship is fast approaching. This year’s event promises to be a good one, as we will be competing at the venerable Memorial Park Golf Course in Houston. Those who have participated in the Trophy in the past know that this is always a very enjoyable and well run tournament. Doug Browne has once again done an exceptional job in finalizing the tournament details and preparations. I hope you make plans to attend the Texas Trophy in Houston, September 13th-15th.

I was able to attend the Texas Turfgrass Summer Conference in July in Bastrop, and was amazed to see how dry things were in Central Texas. I had heard stories about the drought in the southern half of the state, but you really don’t understand the severity until you see it in person. I hope that the coming fall season will bring some much needed rainfall for every-one, but especially all of you experiencing the most severe effects of the drought.

As we look forward to participating in the Texas Trophy, I just want to remind everyone how generous our group of sponsors are in helping to fund our programs. Please pay special attention to the sponsors listed in this newsletter, and the various sponsors at the Texas Trophy. Keep these companies in mind when you purchase and try to help those that help us with our associations.

I look forward to seeing you all in Houston at the Trophy, and hope that you all have a good remainder of the summer. Fall is just around the corner, and will hopefully bring us a long awaited break from the heat. Please feel free to contact me anytime at [email protected] with any suggestions to improve our constantly evolving and improving association!

President’s Message

The Texas Trophy Championship will be held Sep-tember 13-15, 2009 at Memorial Park in Houston, TX.

Registration information is enclosed.

We would like to thank our Gold and Silver Sponsors

Celebration Bermudagrass

C&M Golf and Grounds Equipment AMC Industries/Rain Bird

Estes

PTP/Toro

Sand Express

4

Jay Stine, CGCSPresident, Lone Star GCSA

to prepare the bunkers (during their golfing season). With total labor costs easily exceeding $10 per hour, the math is straightforward.

The bottom line is that golfers demand and expect higher quality bunkers today than ever before in the history of the game. The irony is that bunkers are one of the few areas of the course in which golfers his-torically have played an active role in maintenance. Fixing ball marks, replacing divots, and raking the bunkers after play are simple tasks that can have a tremendously positive impact on the overall playing quality of every course. Unfortunately, most superin-tendents testify that golf etiquette is at an all-time low (USGA Green Section Record, November-December 2008, “An Appeal for the Return of Golf Course Eti-quette”).

The good news is that as the golf industry looks for ways to tighten our belts, we don’t have to look very hard or very far — simply to the nearest bunker. The combination of minimal bunker maintenance (monthly edging to define the margin and weekly raking to prevent weeds from taking hold) and golfer willingness to smooth the bunker after use can save many thousands of dollars in labor costs for all but the most minimally maintained courses.

Should minimal bunker maintenance become an eco-nomic necessity, there is a simple solution for golfers who feel they deserve a perfect lie in a hazard. Aban-don the Rules of Golf and pick up the ball, pack and rack your lie in the bunker to your satisfaction, and replace the ball on your carefully prepared surface. My guess is that you won’t see your sand-save per-centage improve in the slightest, but maybe it will reduce the whining.

Jim Moore is director of the Green Section’s Con-struction Education Program. This article originally appeared in the May-June 2009 issue of the USGA’s Green Section Record, a publication on turfgrass management.

Sand Bunker Depth How deep should sand be installed in a bunker? Is there a way to determine an appropriate depth?

It is important to realize that the sand in a bunker is not at a consistent depth throughout the entire bunker area. Sand on the sloped face normally is kept shallow to help avoid plugging or fried-egg lies. The depth gradually increases to the flat portion of the hazard. Generally, the base or floor of a greenside bunker needs 4 to 6 inches of sand, whereas a fairway bunker commonly needs 2 to 4 inches. That said, the exact depth should be determined by the physical attributes of the sand and desired playability.

Laboratory testing can eliminate much of the guess-work. An accredited physical analysis laboratory measures particle size distribution and particle shape, the ability to retain moisture and saturated hydraulic conductivity (water movement). The lab can even run specialized tests to predict the likelihood of fried-egg lies. These tests are helpful in selecting an appropriate sand that plays well for the golfer and is easier to maintain for the golf course superintendent.

Continued from previous page

Sand Bunker DepthHow deep should sand be installed in a bunker? Is there a way to determine an appropriate depth?

It is important to realize that the sand in a bunker is not at a consistent depth throughout the entire bunker area. Sand on the sloped face normally is kept shallow to help avoid plugging or fried-egg lies. The depth gradually increases to the flat portion of the hazard. Generally, the base or floor of a greenside bunker needs 4 to 6 inches of sand, whereas a fairway bunker commonly needs 2 to 4 inches. That said, the exact depth should be determined by the physical attributes of the sand and desired playability.Laboratory testing can eliminate much of the guesswork. An accredited physical analysis laboratory measures particle size distribution and particle shape, the ability to retain moisture and saturated hydraulic conductivity (water movement). The lab can even run specialized tests to predict the likelihood of fried-egg lies. These tests are helpful in selecting an appropriate sand that plays well for the golfer and is easier to maintain for the golf course superintendent.

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M emorial Park sits on land that was Camp Logan during World War I. The camp was both a training camp and a hospital. Nine golf holes where built for the convalescing soldiers of Camp Logan. An interesting side about the nine holes is that they were composed of sand

greens.

The beginning of the great history of Memorial Park golf can be traced to the time period when the children from the neighborhood would caddy for the soldiers. Some of the famous names of caddies are Army Emmott, Jimmy Demaret, his brother Lymon Demaret, and their cousin Burris Demaret.

After World War I ended, the golf course opened to the public in 1923. In 1927 the Parks and Recrea-tion Department of the City of Houston wanted to make the course into an 18 hole facility. The city wanted to have $200,000.00 of bond money to use in the construction, but the stock market crashed in 1929, which put everything on hold. During this time period the Parks Department used the park as a tree and shrub nursery with over 100,000 trees for future transplanting thus starting the great forresta-tion of the park.

In 1934 the Works Progress Administration (WPA) made the building of the golf course its first pro-ject in the park. They hired John Bredemus to design the golf course. Mr. Bredemus has designed several courses around the country including Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth. John Bredemus said Memorial Park was “my greatest golf course ever”. Construction of the course began in 1935 with one tractor and 20 teams of mules. The golf course was finished and opened in 1936.

The first foursome to play Memorial Park golf course included Jimmy Demaret and Jack Burke, Sr. against city champion, Glen Crisman, and amateur Ossie Carlton.

The first tournament was The Press – City Championship Golf Tournament played in August of 1936. Also, Babe Didrikson Zaharias played wrestler Lou Plummer in a celebrity match in 1939.

In 1946 the Houston Golf Association was formed. Thus created the Houston Open which is still in existence today as well as numerous other programs including one of the largest junior golf programs in the world. The first Houston Open was played in May of 1947 at Memorial Park. The winner was Bobby Locke of Great Britain who won $2,000 for first prize. Ben Hogan finished in 8th place. The tournament left for three years then returned in 1951 to stay for more than a decade.

Continued on page 6

S hould the predictions prove true that the economic challenges already facing the golf

industry will continue to worsen, most courses will have to implement steps to reduce labor costs. Buying cheaper fertilizer and using generic pest control prod-ucts can save some money and are worth considera-tion, but the “800-pound gorilla” in every mainte-nance budget is labor. Facilities that have to make big reductions in expenses are almost certainly going to have to reduce the number of hours spent on taking care of the course. The obvious step is to look for ar-eas in which labor hours can be reduced without hurt-ing the playing quality or long-term agronomic health of the course. Fortunately, most courses will not have to look very hard to find such areas — they are called “bunkers.”

Many top courses now maintain bunkers to a level that raises the question as to whether or not they are still hazards. The Rules of Golf may continue to de-fine bunkers as hazards, but certainly they are not maintained as such, nor do they pose the challenge of their predecessors. The golfers’ incessant cries that the bunkers are inconsistent has been answered with bunkers in which every lie is exactly the same. No longer must the player make a decision about the type of bunker shot he must execute based on varying sand depth, sand moisture, or the makeup of the sand it-self. Balls seldom remain on steep slopes and instead roll to the flat bunker floor. Fried-egg lies are consid-ered unfair and a sign of poor maintenance.

As usual, the tour-stop courses seen on television set the standards for the rest of the golfing world. The bunkers at these courses pose only slightly more challenge than the turf around the greens, with the

players getting up and down from the bunkers an astonishing 48 percent of the time. On those courses that maintain high, tough rough around the greens, the player who misses the green can only hope the ball ends up in the “hazard.”

To achieve such consistency in bunkers, extraordi-nary amounts of labor must be utilized. Simple edg-ing (necessary to define the margins of the hazard) and raking are not enough. Maintenance tasks now include packing the bunker faces, removing leaves, maintaining a specific depth of the sand on the bun-ker face, and even controlling the moisture of the sand. This type of maintenance regime requires hun-dreds of labor hours per week.

Even with such large outlays of labor, maintenance alone cannot provide the perfect lies that many golf-ers now demand from bunkers. Construction and sand selection must also be taken to new levels. Manufactured sand (sand that is crushed to create ex-treme angularity and thereby is less prone to soft lies) is typically twice the cost of the same sand before the crushing process. And instead of using a local sand that requires minimal trucking expense, courses often pay extraordinary hauling fees to import sand from hundreds of miles away. Bunker construction can easily exceed $4 per square foot (USGA Green Sec-tion Record, July-August 2008, “The Money Pit”).

During a telephone survey of 12 superintendents from top courses in the country, the superintendents at these courses revealed a painful fact — they are spending more of their available resources to care for their bunkers than they are for their greens. These courses averaged more than 200 labor hours per week

Bunkers: Can You Afford Them? Due to the high cost of maintaining them, bunkers are an

obvious place to look for ways to save money

By Jim Moore, USGA

Continued on next page

Memorial Park Golf ClubSubmitted by Jason Harsh, GCS, Memorial Park Golf Course

A Step Into History

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Continued from page 5

Some of the legends that played at Memorial Park were Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Jimmy Demaret, Cary Middlecoff and countless others. The last Houston Open played at Memorial Park was in 1963.

Doug Sanders brought his celebrity pro-am tournament to Memorial Park in 1981. Doug Sanders stated that of all the golf courses around the world he has seen that “Memorial Park’s layout is as good as any I’ve seen”. The tournament included such players as Sam Snead, Cary Middlecoff, Tommy Bolt and other greats. A few of the celebrities were Bob Hope, Flip Wilson and Willie Nelson to name a few.

The golf course went through many years with little budgeting for maintenance and suffering greatly from doing yearly rounds of 90,000 people. The golf course and clubhouse were rebuilt in 1995 and are continually getting better with time.

At the present time Memorial Park hosts the USGA Pub Links Qualifier for this region. The course also hosts all the City Amateur Championships, Men’s, Women’s, Senior’s, and Junior’s.

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M emorial Park sits on land that was Camp Logan during World War I. The camp was both a training camp and a hospital. Nine golf holes where built for the convalescing soldiers of Camp Logan. An interesting side about the nine holes is that they were composed of sand

greens.

The beginning of the great history of Memorial Park golf can be traced to the time period when the children from the neighborhood would caddy for the soldiers. Some of the famous names of caddies are Army Emmott, Jimmy Demaret, his brother Lymon Demaret, and their cousin Burris Demaret.

After World War I ended, the golf course opened to the public in 1923. In 1927 the Parks and Recrea-tion Department of the City of Houston wanted to make the course into an 18 hole facility. The city wanted to have $200,000.00 of bond money to use in the construction, but the stock market crashed in 1929, which put everything on hold. During this time period the Parks Department used the park as a tree and shrub nursery with over 100,000 trees for future transplanting thus starting the great forresta-tion of the park.

In 1934 the Works Progress Administration (WPA) made the building of the golf course its first pro-ject in the park. They hired John Bredemus to design the golf course. Mr. Bredemus has designed several courses around the country including Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth. John Bredemus said Memorial Park was “my greatest golf course ever”. Construction of the course began in 1935 with one tractor and 20 teams of mules. The golf course was finished and opened in 1936.

The first foursome to play Memorial Park golf course included Jimmy Demaret and Jack Burke, Sr. against city champion, Glen Crisman, and amateur Ossie Carlton.

The first tournament was The Press – City Championship Golf Tournament played in August of 1936. Also, Babe Didrikson Zaharias played wrestler Lou Plummer in a celebrity match in 1939.

In 1946 the Houston Golf Association was formed. Thus created the Houston Open which is still in existence today as well as numerous other programs including one of the largest junior golf programs in the world. The first Houston Open was played in May of 1947 at Memorial Park. The winner was Bobby Locke of Great Britain who won $2,000 for first prize. Ben Hogan finished in 8th place. The tournament left for three years then returned in 1951 to stay for more than a decade.

Continued on page 6

S hould the predictions prove true that the economic challenges already facing the golf

industry will continue to worsen, most courses will have to implement steps to reduce labor costs. Buying cheaper fertilizer and using generic pest control prod-ucts can save some money and are worth considera-tion, but the “800-pound gorilla” in every mainte-nance budget is labor. Facilities that have to make big reductions in expenses are almost certainly going to have to reduce the number of hours spent on taking care of the course. The obvious step is to look for ar-eas in which labor hours can be reduced without hurt-ing the playing quality or long-term agronomic health of the course. Fortunately, most courses will not have to look very hard to find such areas — they are called “bunkers.”

Many top courses now maintain bunkers to a level that raises the question as to whether or not they are still hazards. The Rules of Golf may continue to de-fine bunkers as hazards, but certainly they are not maintained as such, nor do they pose the challenge of their predecessors. The golfers’ incessant cries that the bunkers are inconsistent has been answered with bunkers in which every lie is exactly the same. No longer must the player make a decision about the type of bunker shot he must execute based on varying sand depth, sand moisture, or the makeup of the sand it-self. Balls seldom remain on steep slopes and instead roll to the flat bunker floor. Fried-egg lies are consid-ered unfair and a sign of poor maintenance.

As usual, the tour-stop courses seen on television set the standards for the rest of the golfing world. The bunkers at these courses pose only slightly more challenge than the turf around the greens, with the

players getting up and down from the bunkers an astonishing 48 percent of the time. On those courses that maintain high, tough rough around the greens, the player who misses the green can only hope the ball ends up in the “hazard.”

To achieve such consistency in bunkers, extraordi-nary amounts of labor must be utilized. Simple edg-ing (necessary to define the margins of the hazard) and raking are not enough. Maintenance tasks now include packing the bunker faces, removing leaves, maintaining a specific depth of the sand on the bun-ker face, and even controlling the moisture of the sand. This type of maintenance regime requires hun-dreds of labor hours per week.

Even with such large outlays of labor, maintenance alone cannot provide the perfect lies that many golf-ers now demand from bunkers. Construction and sand selection must also be taken to new levels. Manufactured sand (sand that is crushed to create ex-treme angularity and thereby is less prone to soft lies) is typically twice the cost of the same sand before the crushing process. And instead of using a local sand that requires minimal trucking expense, courses often pay extraordinary hauling fees to import sand from hundreds of miles away. Bunker construction can easily exceed $4 per square foot (USGA Green Sec-tion Record, July-August 2008, “The Money Pit”).

During a telephone survey of 12 superintendents from top courses in the country, the superintendents at these courses revealed a painful fact — they are spending more of their available resources to care for their bunkers than they are for their greens. These courses averaged more than 200 labor hours per week

Bunkers: Can You Afford Them? Due to the high cost of maintaining them, bunkers are an

obvious place to look for ways to save money

By Jim Moore, USGA

Continued on next page

Memorial Park Golf ClubSubmitted by Jason Harsh, GCS, Memorial Park Golf Course

A Step Into History

The Texas Trophy Championship is fast approaching. This year’s event promises to be a good one, as we will be competing at the venerable Memorial Park Golf Course in Houston. Those who have participated in the Trophy in the past know that this is always a very enjoyable and well run tournament. Doug Browne has once again done an exceptional job in finalizing the tournament details and preparations. I hope you make plans to attend the Texas Trophy in Houston, September 13th-15th.

I was able to attend the Texas Turfgrass Summer Conference in July in Bastrop, and was amazed to see how dry things were in Central Texas. I had heard stories about the drought in the southern half of the state, but you really don’t understand the severity until you see it in person. I hope that the coming fall season will bring some much needed rainfall for every-one, but especially all of you experiencing the most severe effects of the drought.

As we look forward to participating in the Texas Trophy, I just want to remind everyone how generous our group of sponsors are in helping to fund our programs. Please pay special attention to the sponsors listed in this newsletter, and the various sponsors at the Texas Trophy. Keep these companies in mind when you purchase and try to help those that help us with our associations.

I look forward to seeing you all in Houston at the Trophy, and hope that you all have a good remainder of the summer. Fall is just around the corner, and will hopefully bring us a long awaited break from the heat. Please feel free to contact me anytime at [email protected] with any suggestions to improve our constantly evolving and improving association!

President’s Message

The Texas Trophy Championship will be held Sep-tember 13-15, 2009 at Memorial Park in Houston, TX.

Registration information is enclosed.

We would like to thank our Gold and Silver Sponsors

Celebration Bermudagrass

C&M Golf and Grounds Equipment AMC Industries/Rain Bird

Estes

PTP/Toro

Sand Express

4

Jay Stine, CGCSPresident, Lone Star GCSA

to prepare the bunkers (during their golfing season). With total labor costs easily exceeding $10 per hour, the math is straightforward.

The bottom line is that golfers demand and expect higher quality bunkers today than ever before in the history of the game. The irony is that bunkers are one of the few areas of the course in which golfers his-torically have played an active role in maintenance. Fixing ball marks, replacing divots, and raking the bunkers after play are simple tasks that can have a tremendously positive impact on the overall playing quality of every course. Unfortunately, most superin-tendents testify that golf etiquette is at an all-time low (USGA Green Section Record, November-December 2008, “An Appeal for the Return of Golf Course Eti-quette”).

The good news is that as the golf industry looks for ways to tighten our belts, we don’t have to look very hard or very far — simply to the nearest bunker. The combination of minimal bunker maintenance (monthly edging to define the margin and weekly raking to prevent weeds from taking hold) and golfer willingness to smooth the bunker after use can save many thousands of dollars in labor costs for all but the most minimally maintained courses.

Should minimal bunker maintenance become an eco-nomic necessity, there is a simple solution for golfers who feel they deserve a perfect lie in a hazard. Aban-don the Rules of Golf and pick up the ball, pack and rack your lie in the bunker to your satisfaction, and replace the ball on your carefully prepared surface. My guess is that you won’t see your sand-save per-centage improve in the slightest, but maybe it will reduce the whining.

Jim Moore is director of the Green Section’s Con-struction Education Program. This article originally appeared in the May-June 2009 issue of the USGA’s Green Section Record, a publication on turfgrass management.

Sand Bunker Depth How deep should sand be installed in a bunker? Is there a way to determine an appropriate depth?

It is important to realize that the sand in a bunker is not at a consistent depth throughout the entire bunker area. Sand on the sloped face normally is kept shallow to help avoid plugging or fried-egg lies. The depth gradually increases to the flat portion of the hazard. Generally, the base or floor of a greenside bunker needs 4 to 6 inches of sand, whereas a fairway bunker commonly needs 2 to 4 inches. That said, the exact depth should be determined by the physical attributes of the sand and desired playability.

Laboratory testing can eliminate much of the guess-work. An accredited physical analysis laboratory measures particle size distribution and particle shape, the ability to retain moisture and saturated hydraulic conductivity (water movement). The lab can even run specialized tests to predict the likelihood of fried-egg lies. These tests are helpful in selecting an appropriate sand that plays well for the golfer and is easier to maintain for the golf course superintendent.

Continued from previous page

Sand Bunker DepthHow deep should sand be installed in a bunker? Is there a way to determine an appropriate depth?

It is important to realize that the sand in a bunker is not at a consistent depth throughout the entire bunker area. Sand on the sloped face normally is kept shallow to help avoid plugging or fried-egg lies. The depth gradually increases to the flat portion of the hazard. Generally, the base or floor of a greenside bunker needs 4 to 6 inches of sand, whereas a fairway bunker commonly needs 2 to 4 inches. That said, the exact depth should be determined by the physical attributes of the sand and desired playability.Laboratory testing can eliminate much of the guesswork. An accredited physical analysis laboratory measures particle size distribution and particle shape, the ability to retain moisture and saturated hydraulic conductivity (water movement). The lab can even run specialized tests to predict the likelihood of fried-egg lies. These tests are helpful in selecting an appropriate sand that plays well for the golfer and is easier to maintain for the golf course superintendent.

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Gary BrooksField Sales Representative Tel. (817) 594-7164Fax (817) 594-7164Cell (817) [email protected]

Bob DucoteSenior Tech Sales SpecialistTel. (832) 640-1235Fax: (281) [email protected]

Bayer Environmental Science

President’s Message 4

Memorial Golf Course—Where History Abounds! Submitted by Jason Harsh, GCS, Memorial Park Golf Course 6

Bunkers: Can Your Golf Course Afford Them? Chris Hartwiger and Pat O’Brien, USGA Green Section, SE Region Reprinted with permission from the USGA

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Around the State Your Local Chapter’s Calendar of Events 10

Mark Your Calendars!

Inside this issue: Texas Trophy 2009, the Cost of Bunkers, Upcoming Chapter Events,

and More!

On the Cover: Hole #6, Memorial Golf Club in Houston, TX. This hole is a beautiful par 4, 388 yard challenge. Its water feature not only adds pleasing aesthetics,

but plenty of competition as well. Well-placed bunkers surround the green in back. Best to hit away, then take enough club for a second shot over the water.

Lone Star Links is the official publication of the Lone Star Golf Course Superintendents

Association. Direct all new items, letters, corrections, or advertisements to: Karen White, Executive Secretary, 2601 Green Oak Drive, Carrollton, TX 75010

972.307.8162—Phone; 972.662.1168—Fax; Email: [email protected]

2009 Texas Trophy September 13-15, 2009 Memorial Park Golf Course, Houston

North Texas GCSA Schedule

August 10—Education and Meeting, Thorntree Country Club, Desoto September 22—Education/TX Scottish Rite Hospital October 13—Annual Meeting Tour 18 Golf Course, Flower Mound November 9—Scholarship Tournament Mira Vista Golf Club, Fort Worth December 1—Crew Championship Woodhaven Country Club, Fort Worth

Contact: Brian Cloud, CGCS North Texas Chapter Executive

(817) 377-4552 www.ntgcsa.org

South Texas GCSA Schedule August 25—Superintendent/Pro Tournament Falcon Point Golf Course October 13—Meeting/Golf Tournament Cinco Ranch Golf Club November 9 —Meeting/Golf Tournament Willow Fork Golf Course December—TBA

Contact: Marian Takushi South Texas Executive Director

(281) 494-0094 www.stgcsa.org

Central Texas GCSA Schedule

August 10—Regular Meeting and Education Oak Hills Country Club, San Antonio October 6—Crew Event Roy Kizer Golf Club, Austin November 10—Annual Meeting & Education Harmons BBQ, Cibolo

Contact: Jana Gomillion Central Texas Executive Director

(512) 658-3145 www.ctgcsa.org

West Texas GCSA Schedule

August 11—Meeting, Tech Turfgrass Field Day, Texas Tech Oct. 26-28—23rd Annual Conference and Trade Show, The Coliseum, Snyder. Oct. 26—Golf Tournament, Sammy Baugh Golf Course

Contact: Pam Deeds

West Texas Executive Director (806) 383-6775 www.wtgcsa.org

Texas Gulf Coast GCSA Schedule

June 9—Meeting, Laredo Country Club August 4—Meeting, McAllen Country Club September 29—Vendors Day Tournament and Auction Victoria Country Club November 17—Annual Meeting Corpus Christi Country Club

Contact: Darlene Curlee Texas Gulf Coast Executive Secretary

(361) 850-7974 www.tgcsa.org

Lone Star GCSA Schedule

September 13-15—Texas Trophy Championship Memorial Park Golf Course, Houston

Contact: Karen White Lone Star GCSA Executive Director

(972) 307-8162 www.lsgcsa.org

Texas Turfgrass Association

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