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Welcome
Welcome
• Name
• Why are you here today?
• Your experience with Golf Course Maintenance
Education
• Oregon State University
– Marketing Management ‘91
– Turf and Landscape Management ’02
Sales Career
• Enterprise Rent-A-Car
• Radiant Systems
Golf Course Maintenance Career
• Trysting Tree Golf Course
• The Reserve Golf & Vineyards
• Trysting Tree Golf Course
• Illahee Hills Country Club
• Trysting Tree Golf Course
• The Meadows Course at Sunriver Resort
Resurrecting Thatchy, Droughty, Diseased Greens
• The Golfer’s Expectations
• The Superintendents Motivation
• IPM
• Thatch Removal
• The Trysting Tree Method
What Do Golfers Expect?
What Do Golfer’s Expect?
• Look
• Feel
• Firm and Fast
• Receptive and Smooth
• Consistent
• Fair
• ??
What Motivates the Superintendent?
What Motivates the Superintendent?
• Happy Golfers
• Less Time on the Sprayer
• More Room in the Budget for Other Projects
• Sleeping Peacefully at Night
Integrated Pest Management
• Mowing
– Quality of Cut
– Height of Cut
– Frequency
– Rolling
– Grooming
– Vertical Cutting
Integrated Pest Management
• Topdressing
– Frequency
– Rate
– Timing
Integrated Pest Management
• Irrigation
– Over Heads
– Hand Watering
– Wetting Agents
Integrated Pest Management
• Fertility
– Rate of N per Application
– Total N per Year
– Balanced Nutrition
– PGR’s
Integrated Pest Management
• Pesticides
– Identify Likely Pests
– Select Appropriate Chemistries
– Determine Approach
• Curative
• Preventive
Thatch Removal
• Hollow Tine Aeration
– Removes 5% to 10% of Thatch
• Tine Size
• Spacing
Thatch Removal
• Dethatch (Graden)
– Removes 10% to 15%
• Depth
• Blade Width
Remove Thatch
• Strip and Re-Sod or Re-Seed
– Removes 100%
– $$ Expensive $$
The Trysting Tree Method
• The ah-ha Moment
– Spring 2002
– Lewis-Brown Turf Farm (OSU)
– Hort 418 Thatch Trial
The Trysting Tree Method
Hollow Tine Aeration
Harvest Cores *
Graden
Clean up
Topdress and Drag In
Water Down
Results
• Significant Improvement in Green Quality
– Better Ball Roll
– Firm but Receptive
Reduced Recovery Time
Results
• Healthy Greens
– Reduced Disease Incidence
– Reduced LDS Incidence
Results
• Happy Golfers- Increased Play
• Happy Superintendent- Less Sand and Pesticides
Results
• More Resources Available for Other Projects
Irrigation Addition
Found the Lost Lateral Valve
Thank you
