Irrigation: Water management continues to change as courses look at options for new sources. These projects give you ways you may be more efficient and save expenses. Under Construction series host Jan Bel Jan, ASGCA Treasurer, discusses projects with two superintendents to help you find tips for your irrigation work.
Irrigation: Water management continues to change as courses look at options for new sources. These projects give you ways you may be more efficient and save expenses. Under Construction series host Jan Bel Jan, ASGCA Treasurer, discusses projects with two superintendents to help you find tips for your irrigation work.
Case Studies: Peter Brooks, CGCS, The Everglades Club, Palm Beach, Fla. - Transitioning controllers to up-dated models and technology in-house and creating usable water [Reverse Osmosis and effluent.]
Jason Zimmerman, CGCS, Pelican's Nest GC, Bonita Springs, Fla. - Using well water PLUS effluent, managing salts in your water in real time to flush greens with well water and transition to Tee/Fairway/Rough irrigation with blended water.
Original presentation date: Nov. 2, 2017
Education points: 0.1
Non-member price: $60
About the Host
Jan Bel Jan comes from Pittsburgh, Penn. golf family. Her father, George BelJan, was a golf pro/superintendent; three of his five “in the golf business” brothers were peer-respected PGA professionals. From them, she learned the game and business of golf. Bel Jan began her design career with Tom Fazio with whom she held a senior position in golf course design, construction and project management for more than twenty years. Her experience as a registered Landscape Architect, Certified Arborist and former assistant superintendent, provide her with a unique outlook on the playability, strategy, ecology, and economics of golf courses. Bel Jan now maintains her own golf course design firm, is serving as Treasurer of the American Society of Golf Course Architects (ASGCA) and is an Adjunct Professor at Hodges University in Naples, Fla. In 2000 and 2005, she was noted in Sports Illustrated Plus lists of the “Top Ten Most Influential Women in the Game of Golf.”
About the Case Study Presenters
Peter Brooks, CGCS, The Everglades Club, Palm Beach, Fla., started in the Industry in 1979 and has been a GCSAA member for over 30 years. He first achieved his GCSAA certification in 1990 and helped The Everglades Club achieve designation as a Certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary in 2013.
Jason Zimmerman, CGCS, Director of Greens & Grounds at Pelican’s Nest Golf Club, has been working in the golf course industry since he was 14. He earned his bachelor’s degree in turfgrass management from Michigan State University and first achieved his GCSAA certification in 2004. Zimmerman’s early work experience includes time in South Carolina and Michigan before becoming the superintendent at the Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club in Clearwater, Fla., site of an annual PGA event. He is a past panelist from the Golf Industry Show.
