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Welcome to the Official Website of the
Lone Star Golf Course Superintendents Association
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The Lone Star Links
Winter 2011 Online Newsletter is now ready for viewing |
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Lone
Star GCSA Reception at GIS! When:
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 Where: Las
Vegas Hilton (near Convention Center) Room: Pavilion 10 Time: 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM Be there for an awesome event!! Thanks to our wonderful sponsors whom without this event would not be possible! |
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The Andersons Fleetwood Services Austin Turf & Tractor Golfscapes BASF Helena Chemical Company Bayer Environmental Horizon Brookside Equipment Sales King Ranch Turfgrass BWI Companies Neese Material C&M Grounds & Equipment PTP/Toro Champion Turf Resource Labs Cleary Chemical Corporation Syngenta Dow AgroSciences Tri-Tex Grass DuPont Professional Products Tru-Turf Golf Greens Dow AgroSciences
Weibring
Wolfard Golf Design
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and our wonderful regional chapters - Central Texas GCSA, South Texas GCSA, North Texas GCSA, West Texas GCSA, Texas Gulf Coast SA, and additionally, Arkansas GCSA!
We are still seeking sponsors for this event! If you would
like to participate, please complete the form found here or the form here for more complete
advertising/sponsorship information.
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Mark Your Calendars!!! The TEXAS CUP Cometh! Mark your calendars for Monday,
April 30th RIDGEWOOD COUNTRY CLUB WACO, TEXAS More Details Coming Soon!
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Dear Lone Star GCSA members,
TAMU (Dr. Kevin Ong) and the Lone Star Golf Course Superintendents are in the process of trying to secure a 24(c) label for Avid so we have another product for nematode control here in Texas as Nemacur is being phased out. President Chuck McCaskill is composing a letter of support. We need your help! If you foresee needing this product on your golf course, we would appreciate your permission to use your name, golf course facility, and city as an attachment to this letter showing overwhelming need for this product in Texas. If you would support this product, again, please email me back immediately with your name, club name and city.
It has been approved in NC, SC, FL, GA, and TN. Please see info below.
http://www.turfpathology.org/Pages/blog_entry.aspx?PID=7784400970812597530
Many thanks!!
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Raffle for Research With the support of our Texas chapters, Lone Star GCSA anticipates rolling out its latest fundraising campaign for research at the beginning of the year. Because of your support and efforts, Lone Star GCSA is submitting a proposal to GCSAA in 2012 and 2013 for a matching grant for “Deficit Irrigation Programs for Water Conservation in the Management of Bermudagrass Fairways in Texas,” proposed by Dr. Ben Wherley of Texas A&M. Dr. Wherley’s research will likely affect every golf course in our state. To keep turf research alive in Texas, we are requesting that all of our state's local associations collect rounds of golf to be raffled off in the first quarter of 2012. This project is very similar to the “Rounds for Research” campaign that was held last year. Although the project produced over $6,000 for research last year, the Lone Star GCSA Board of Directors did not feel it was as successful as it should have been. We found that the weak link in that program was getting enough people to actually bid on the rounds. The online bidding process was very cumbersome and we lost many interested bidders in the registration phase of the project. Accordingly, changes have been made, starting with the elimination of the online portion of the effort. Here is how we have designed the 2012 “Raffle for Research” project. In short, each Chapter will be assigned a target number of rounds of golf to secure, a target number of raffle tickets to be sold that will result in a goal for the funds it is responsible for raising. All sales will be conducted in person by volunteer members (and affiliate members) of the respective chapters. We have tried to keep the odds of winning at around a one in 10 chance per ticket purchased. We hope that there will be enough volunteers in each chapter that step up to sell five tickets per volunteer. The chapters that are designated to 200 tickets, for example, would only need 40 members selling five tickets each to reach their Chapter goal. That sounds extremely possible and it puts the control of success of the project back into our members' hands. We hope to have the rounds of golf procured by the end of November and we hope to have the raffle tickets back from the printer by the end of December. We have allocated the months of January and February for selling the tickets, and in March, each chapter will hold a drawing to pick the winners. Each of the chapters will hold their own drawing to insure the rounds of golf donated in that particular area will be won by someone from within the Chapter's geographic territory. Once all of the drawings have been held, all of the 750 tickets that were sold throughout the state will then be collected and another drawing will be held (by the LSGCSA) for a chance to win one of five (and possibly more) stay-and-play packages throughout the state. We are excited about this campaign and we hope we can get support from our membership throughout the state to help make this project a success. The money raised by the project will be used for research that will benefit every golf course superintendent in the great state of Texas. If you have questions about the “Raffle for Research,” please contact one of your Lone Star Representatives, Doug Browne (979-885-4833), Terry Gill (713-778-3819), or me (281-373- 4750). - John Walker Raffle for Research Chapter Golf Rounds Ticket Goal Sales Goal NTGCSA-20 foursome rounds 200 tickets@$20 ea. $4,000 CTGCSA 20 foursome rounds 200 tickets@$20 ea. $4,000 GCGCSA 5 foursome rounds 50 tickets@$20 ea. $1,000 STGCSA 20 foursome rounds 200 tickets@$20 ea. $4,000 WTGCSA 10 foursome rounds 100 tickets$20 ea. $2,000 *Need one stay-and-play from each chapter if possible Timing breakdown: November 1- Nov. 30: Collect rounds of golf December 1-15: Send list of rounds to Doug Browne, who gets tickets printed Jan. 1st Sell tickets – need name, email address, phone # April 1st Drawing 1. Each chapter keeps tickets 2. Each chapter does their own drawing 3. Find central location to deliver rounds to winners
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Congratulations to the Central Texas GCSA
2011 Texas Trophy Winners
Fossil Creek
Ft. Worth, TX
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the Lone Star GCSA's email newsletter? It's chock-full of current information
for Texas golf course superintendents and turfgrass industry members. Stay
up-to-date by joining today!!
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Our Mission 1. To enhance communications between local chapters, uniting them into a single stronger voice for all Texas Golf Course Superintendents. 2. Form a stronger voting block and promote future National director candidates. 3. To organize and monitor the Texas Trophy Golf Tournament. 4. To track legislation in order to protect the best interests of all Texas Superintendents. 5. To enhance the image of Golf Superintendents locally as well as nationally.
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