PACE Newsroom
Welcome to the PACE Newsroom
This newsroom is provided as a resource for professional communicators who work with the turfgrass industry. The press releases, background information, graphics and photographs posted here are available for use in articles, broadcasts and other media formats, but we ask that you credit PACE Turf as the source of the information.
2012
PACE Turf provides its membership with a vast amount of turf management information on its website at www.paceturf.org. For the first time, PACE Turf extends permission for GCSAA chapter webmasters and newsletter editors to post or print the links to a number of its turf tools. In effect, GCSAA chapters will be able to make a PACE Turf Management Toolbox available to its members free of charge.
Contact your webmaster to request that the following html code be added to your GCSAA chapter website in the appropriate location.
<p>Turfgrass information resources provided by PACE Turf</p>
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<a href="http://www.paceturf.org/index.php/journal/pace_turf_disease_photo_index/">Turf disease photo index</a>
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<a href="http://www.paceturf.org/index.php/journal/pace_turf_insect_photo_index/">Turf insect photo index</a>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/paceturf">PACE Turf TV</a>
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<a href="http://www.paceturf.org/index.php/public/free_stuff/">Additional resources</a>
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<a href="http://www.paceturf.org/index.php/journal/">Super Journal - a website to report superintendent sponsored research</a>
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2011
10/26/11: Siri Talks Turf (Microsoft Word document) See the video
7/22/11: Heat and Drought Recovery (Microsoft Word document) See the video
5/2/11: Is "Attractive Traffic Control" an Oxymoron? Not at Shady Canyon Golf Club (Microsoft Word document) See the video
4/18/11: Free Videos by PACE turf Offer Spring Aeration and Disease Information (Microsoft Word document)
3/18/11: Help increase awareness of Earth Day 2011 by printing and posting the "Golf - The Green Sport" (4 MB pdf) mini-poster in your pro shop and locker rooms. Encourage recycling and conservation when asked about Earth Day. We share the planet, let's share the responsibility of keeping it clean and healthy. Earth Day 2011 falls on 4/22/2011.
2/3/11: Coming Soon to a Golf Course Near You: The iStimp App for the iPhone (Microsoft Word document) See the video
1/24/11: Golf and the Golf Industry Benefit Us all Says New, Free PACE Turf Video (Microsoft Word document) See the video
2010
12/16/10: Free Golfer Education Video by PACE Explains Frost Delays (Microsoft Word document 64KB)
See the video9/28/10: Free Golfer Education Video by PACE Describes Aeration Benefits (Microsoft Word document 64KB)
See the video8/4/10: Free Video by PACE Turf Educates Golfers on Heat and Turf Stress (Microsoft Word document 64KB)
See the videoFor those of you that are participating in the Bayer Accolades program, we are pleased to announce that you can now use your rewards points to purchase PACE Turf memberships. Just login to the Bayer Accolades website, and go to the "Rewards Catalogue" section. You can get to the PACE Turf membership either by typing "PACE Turf" into the search box, or by selecting "Memberships" in the catalog menu. It will take 38,036 points to cover the annual PACE Turf membership fee of $275.00.
2009 News Releases
- 8/6/09: Pre packaged Fungicide Combo Products: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Microsoft Word document 51 KB)
- 7/23/09: PACE Turf Teams Up with Syngenta's GreenPartners Program (Microsoft Word document 48.5KB)
- 6/2/09: Stowell and Gelernter of PACE Turf named 2009 TOCA Environmental Communicators of the Year (Microsoft Word document 29.5KB)
- 4/23/09: Top five things PACE Turf suggests to recession-proof your turf maintenance budget (Microsoft Word document 54.8KB)
2008 News Releases
- 11/10/08: PACE Turf, a New Turf Management Information Service, Launched Today (Microsoft Word document 38KB)
- 10/3/08: Is molasses the recipe for reduced thatch? (Microsoft Word document 84KB)
- 9/9/08: Prevent turf disease with manganese (Microsoft Word document 78KB)
- 7/7/08: PACE Turf Meeting Provides Realistic Tools for Implementing IPM (Microsoft Word document 320Kb)
- 3/4/08: 11th Annual PACE Turfgrass Research Seminar to be Held June 20 in San Diego (Microsoft Word document 26Kb)
- 3/4/08: Program for June 20 PACE Turfgrass Research Seminar (Microsoft Word document 78Kb)
- February 29, 2008: Brown ring patch (Waitea) study receives GCSAA funding, 2/29. The project, "Management and Biology of Brown Ring Patch on Annual Bluegrass Greens" led by researchers Frank Wong, Ph.D., University of California, and Larry Stowell, Ph.D., PACE Turf, has received two years of funding from national and regional chapters of the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America. A total of $62,000 will be provided to the project over a 2-year period.
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PACE Turf black and white logo (20Kb)
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PACE Turf Founders, Drs. Wendy Gelernter and Larry Stowell |
2007 News Releases
Visit the PACE Super Journal website to view these recently posted articles and presentations:
- November 8, 2007: "Virtual irrigation audits" (1,228 KB), a PACE presentation made at the 2007 Crop Science Society of America Annual Meeting.
- July 16, 2007: "Testing the Aqua-PhyD Water Conditioner"
- July 9, 2007: "Effect of leaching greens on soil chemistry"
- February 5, 2007: Cactus and Pines GCSA presentation, "History of rapid blight in the southwestern U.S."
- December 11, 2006: Agronomy Society of America presentation Soil Compaction Evaluation with the Spectrum Technologies SC-900 Before and After a Rolling Stones Concert at Petco Park".
2006 News Releases
- 7/5/06: PACE IPM Photo Contest Offers a Canon A700 Camera Prize and Good Communications Value (Microsoft Word document 27Kb)
- 4/25/06: Turf Precision Management is the 21st Century's IPM (Microsoft Word document 31Kb)
- 4/25/06: Unexpected Results Reported During 2006 Disease Update (Microsoft Word document 28Kb)
- 3/1/06: 10th Annual PACE Turfgrass Resesarch Seminar to be Held April 7 in San Diego (Microsoft Word document 26Kb)
- 1/9/06: Creation of Super Journal by PACE Turfgrass Research Institute (Microsoft Word document 31Kb)
2005 News Releases
- 8/1/05: Rapid blight press release
- 7/6/05: PACE Turfgrass Research Seminar: Moss control highlighted (Microsoft Word document 31Kb)
- 7/6/05: Moss control product use pattern table (Microsoft Word document 29Kb)
- 6/8/05: PACE Turf Management Checklist for Summer (Microsoft Word document 29Kb)
- 5/1/05: PACE Turfgrass Research Seminar to be Held June 27 (Microsoft Word document 21Kb)
- 4/1/05: PACE Trial Memberships Announced (Microsoft Word document 27Kb)
