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Fossil Trace Winning Acclaim
Despite Grow-In During Drought
Oct 2004 -- Despite its grow-in through one of the region's worst-ever
droughts including 43 days when irrigation was not allowed, the
new Fossil Trace Golf Club at Golden, Colo., is winning national acclaim
after only a few months of operation.
Reconstruction Mixes Best of Old With Most Advanced
of New Practicies
July 2004 -- When reconstruction of the City of St. Paul's Highland
Park National Golf Course is complete later this year, the course
will feature the best of two worlds. Those worlds range from the
beauty
of its mature trees and the spectacular view that overlooks the metro area to
those of the most
advanced practices in golf course construction.
Small Town Course Builds Its Own Big Time Greens
May 2004 -- You don't have to be a big time golf course to have big time
greens. That's the case at the 9-hole Elgin, N.D., Golf Club where about
20 "do it yourself" volunteer members used materials from the country’s
top golf course suppliers — along with some accompanying professional guidance — to
build seven new grass greens, new tee boxes and make other improvements to the
course.
Reconstructing Greens
. . . The Right Mix is Important
July/Aug 2003 -- In 1922 a few people built a new golf course in the
old oil town of Tyler, TX. The nine-hole course rerouted some of
its existing holes and added nine more during the 1940s. In the 1980s
a lot of work was done on the course and three holes were added and
three others were abandoned to make a
practice area. But in all that time, although the greens had changed,
they were still sitting on the same basic greens from the 1920s.
Black Bear to be
One of Minnesota’s Finest
June 2003 -- Although it won't be opened
for play until July, the new Black Bear Golf Course at Cloquet, Minn.,
could already be one of the finest golf courses in Minnesota.
Honey Creek has
Timeout for Operation Iraqi Freedom
April 2003 -- A timeout has been called halfway through the construction
of the new Honey Creek Golf Course & Estates just south of Boone,
Iowa.
Microbial Action
is Required the ‘Right’ Peat Reduces Thatch Build-Up
May 2002 -- Dakota Peat founder and president Mike Pierce isn't
fazed when competitors try to promote ways to advance their unproven
shortcuts for constructing and maintaining golf greens. He knows that
those attempts will fall short and that the time-proven practices will
actually gain as a result.
Black Horse Golf
Club Built to be Model
Jan 2002 -- The new Black Horse Golf Club, a Peter Jacobsen-Jim
Hardy design in the northwest Houston suburb of Cypress, Tex., just
opened its second 18 holes before Christmas. The first 18 have been
played since July.
Dethatcher: Top Superintendent
says Dakota is a Great Machine
Jan 2002 -- Up until two years ago, Rich Jorgenson, one of the top
golf course superintendents in Arizona, had never used a dethatcher.
Since becoming superintendent at Sunland Village Golf Club in Mesa,
his experience with that piece of equipment has taught him that he
doesn’t ever want to go without one again.
Teamwork Marks Kansas
City Sand and Blending Firms
Jan 2001 -- Two Kansas City firms -- Holliday Sand Co. and Precision
Blending -- have a very successful business relationship that takes
some explaining to understand.
George Toma: Groundskeeper
Emeritus
Jan 2001 -- Groundskeeper emeritus George Toma has been the man in
charge of field preparations for the Super Bowl for all of the event's
35 years.
Golf Fraternity Comes
to Aid of Flooded Manvel Course
Dec 2000 -- Rich Leach has first hand knowledge about the fraternity
that exists among those in the business and in the game of golf.
That became quite evident last summer when his River's Edge Golf
Course at Manvel, N.D., one of the "top 10 courses to play in
North Dakota," went under water for two and a half weeks in
the middle of June (2000).
Dethatcher Demo Saved
Day for Ruby Hills Golf Course
Oct 2000 -- When Mark Licon became the superintendent at the 18-hole,
Jack Nicklaus-designed Ruby Hills Golf Course at Pleasanton, Calif.,
three years ago, he inherited a major thatch problem.
Jed Azinger Learned
Early What He Wanted To Do
Oct 2000 -- It only took noted golf course architect Jed Azinger
a few days of working on a golf course to realize that that was what
he wanted to do for the rest of his life.
St. Andrews’ Turf
Tenders Instrumental in Preparing Course
Sept 2000 -- Eddie Adams, head greenskeeper at St. Andrews Old Course,
got ready for this year's British Open by closing the course to regular
play for three weeks and by quadrupling his maintenance staff for
the final week of preparations.
First Appearance
of Dakota Line Counted…But Performance Sold Dealership
Feb 2000 -- Torrence Farm Equipment has been in business in California's
Imperial Valley since 1939 and has had a store in the Thermal area
since 1986. Its first exposure to Dakota equipment was at the Las
Vegas golf course superintendent's show three years ago.
Stock Farm Course
Site Has Rich Montana History
Jan 2000 -- While prospecting in the West in 1864, Marcus Daly,
a young Irish immigrant, passed through western Montana's Bitterroot
Valley. The beauty and possibilities of the area so completely overwhelmed
him that he told his wife, Margaret, in a letter: "I'll come
back here someday and build me a horse ranch."
Notre Dame Used Testing,
Recommendations to Select Peat from Dakota for Field Renovation
Jan 2000 -- When the University of Notre Dame made the decision
in 1995 to add 20,000 seats to its football stadium, increasing the
capacity to 80,225, the time was right to also renovate the playing
field.
Dakota 440 Solved Manpower
Problem
Jan 2000 -- When Faery's Landscaping of Ransomville, NY, started
a project to rebuild about 100 bunkers on a golf course near Buffalo,
NY, a couple years ago, it didn't take long for company president
Jack Faery to see that keeping the manpower needed to spread the
sand was going to be a big problem.
Race Promoter 'Blends'
Into Golf Industry
Jan 2000 -- After a highly successful 41-year career promoting
stock car racing in the Minnesota-North Dakota area, Jim Corcoran's
entry into the peat business as wasn't quite so glorious.
Southern Golf Development
Keeps Dakota Under Its 'Roof'
Nov 1999 -- Jim Kuykendall of Southern Golf Development in Birmingham,
Ala., likes to keep everything under "one roof." When he
develops a golf course or a residential golf community, his crews
do virtually everything... from the planning to the planting.
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