iPad2 Giveaway
iPAD2 Giveaway Winner Announced!
Congratulations to Ken Newcomb, Coto De Caza Golf and Racquet Club
The 2011 PACE Turf iPad2 Giveaway introduced more turf management professionals to PACE Turf and social networking sites such as Facebook. More than 350 people liked the PACE Turf on Facebook. Thanks for your participation!
The PACE Turf Facebook page provides samples of information from the PACE Turf website and YouTube channel that are of interest throughout the year. If you like what you see, please take the tour and consider joining PACE Turf - the most comprehensive and well organized technical resource for turfgrass managers.
Top Ten Turf Monitoring Tools
OK, so we couldn’t stop at 10. Once we got started listing tools that we have found to be effective, that are easy to use and to acquire, and that are relatively inexpensive, we found at least 15 turf monitoring tools that we think should be in every superintendent’s arsenal.
This information was presented in the "Answers on the Hour" Session at the February, 2011 Golf Industry Show in Orlando. For those of you that didn’t attend the session, please feel free to download and print this handout (131 KB pdf) for further information.
Intrigued by the weird designs on the back of the handout? These QR codes are a type of bar code that can be rapidly scanned with your smart phone’s camera to gain immediate access to a website. The codes on the back of the handout correspond to the websites of each of the manufacturers listed on the front of the handout as sources for the tools that we recommend.
Although some phones have built in QR readers, iPhone users will need to download a QR application (usually free or under 2 dollars). To find out what you need for your phone, just do an online search for the model of your phone, followed by the words QR reader.
Not a PACE Turf member yet?
For more information on how PACE Turf’s member website, emails and videos can help you get the answers you need, please take the tour of PACE Turf member services, visit our home page or read what other turf managers have to say about the benefits of membership.
Hope to see you at the show!
We are looking forward to the GCSAA conference and show next week, and hope to see many of you there. We are teaching three different courses this year, and hope you'll have some time to stop by before or after one of the classes to say hello! (schedules and locations are listed below).
For those of you who won't be in Orlando this year, we're planning on reporting back on any new and worthwhile information that we can glean.
Monday, February 7, 9:20 – 9:40 am: "The latest dirt on dirt on sensor technology". Room W304 (F,G and H)
Tuesday, February 8, 1 – 5 pm: "Tools for Managing Economic Challenges: The IPM Planning Guide and Precision Turf Management". Room W311D
Wednesday, February 9, 2 – 2:30 pm: " Ten turf monitoring tools that you can't do without: a demonstration". Trade Show Floor, Booth 1585.
