CONTENTS
Vol. 50, No. 1 January/February 2016
Feature Articles: Member Driven Research: Creeping Bentgrass Variety Germination pages 16 - 23
by Dr. Brian Horgan, Sam Bauer and Matt Cavanaugh, UMN
by Eric Peterson, Superintendent, Dellwood Country Club
by Dr. Angela Orshinsky, UMN Horticultural Pathologist
H2B Myths and Facts: Dellwood Country Club Highlight Prescription Pathology, Year In Review
EDITOR DAVE KAZMIERCZAK, CGCS
DAVE@PRESTWICK.COMCASTBIZ.NET
In Bounds Jack MacKenzie, CGCS
pages
50 - 53
GC Design and Construction
Monthly Columns: Presidential Perspective pages Dave Kazmierczak, CGCS
pages 36 - 42
6 - 7
pages 12 - 14
Within the Leather pages 62 - 64 This Month’s Guest: Jamie Bezanson
On The Cover: Andy Hollman Top-dresses Bentgrass Plots Affiliate Spotlight:
Selling Your Dream By Kevin Norby pages 26-32
Event Picture Spreads: The Northern Green
page
24 - 25
The Beer and Pretzel Social
page
33
The Prairieland Outreach at Marshall CC
page
45
The Bluffs Region Outreach at RG&C
page
52
Great North Outreach at Sugar Lake Lodge
page
61
...Even More GREAT Content: Use Your Heart To Help Others pages 44 - 46 By Gary Deters, Superintendent at St. Cloud CC Anoka Technical College 2015 in Review pages 50 - 51 By Amy Moberg, Anoka Technical College
Hole Notes (ISSN 108-27994) is digitally published monthly except bimonthly in November/December and January/February by the Minnesota Golf Course Superintendents’ Association, 10050 204th Street North, Forest Lake, MN 55025. Jack MacKenzie CGCS publisher. Please send any address changes, articles for publication, advertising and concerns to jack@mgcsa.org. Page 5