Editorial Index Company Page No. Fennway Golf Range 14 SePRO Corp. 88_ Tidewater Golf Club 46_

Advan LLC 12. Florida State Golf Association 16_ Settlement (The) 10 Tega Cay Golf Club 38_

Air-O-Lator 88,142 Golf Club at Yankee Trace 32_ Shawow Lake Golf Course 92. Tenkiller Golf Club 46_

Alvamar Golf and Country Club 38_ G.C. Superintendents Assoc. of America 46 Silver Mountain Resort 10. Turf Care Supply Corp. 12_

American Legion Golf Course 46_ Golf Range Association of America 36 Sipcam Agro 15_ United States Golf Association 12,36

Andersons (The) 142_ Gozzer Golf and Lake Club 10 Sonic 88_ Via Verde Country Club 46_

Aqua Control Fountains & Aerators 88 Grande Traverse Resort 86_ Stanwich Club U Warwick Hills Country Club 15_

Aquamaster Fountains & Aerators 88 Hazeltine National Golf Club 90. Syngenta Professional Products 50,98 West Coast Turf 80_

Aquatrols 88. Hunter's Point Golf Club 10. Tamarack Resort at Lake Cascade 10 Whistling Straits Golf Course 10

Arista LifeScience 15. Indian Creek Golf and Country Club 46

Atlanta Country Club 46_ John Deere Golf & Turf One 50

Augusta National 10 Legacy Idaho 10 A l l I f l U G X

Avalon Golf Club 43_ Leisure World of Maryland 46_

Baltusrol Golf Club 10 LESCO 12. C i r c , e N o ' P a g e No" Qxford Garden ^

Barton Creek Resort 44 Links at Echo Springs Golf Course 46 — — P B I G o r d o n

n.nm x • • T » n - c , .,,,, n * oi u on Aqua-T 105 Par Aide Products 87,124 BASF Professional Turf & Ornamentals 45 Locust Hill Country Club 29_ — c n i l - n * nn Aquatrols 47,104 Parkway Research (reg)95,125 Bayco Golf 50 Longhi s Golf 92 —

Arysta 106 Promotional USA 140 Bayer Environmental Science 12,98 Metacomet Country Club 74 — Audubon Intl 73 Pursell Tech 126 Becker Underwood 88 Mitsui Chemical 15_ — — - — — — — I T ^ r

Avesta CV2-1 Rain Bird Sales Inc 31,39,127 MLabs 92. Monroe Country Club 4^ B A S F Dot Wacker, 7 , 1 7 - 2 4 , 5 3 « Securall

K a f e M e m s 66. Mysr tck 96 Bayco 90t 108 Sisis W 2 8 tee 88_ North American Green 8^ ^ ^ ^ SonicSolutions 139_

Black Canyon Golf Club 1 Northshore Golf IClub 46 ^ Spindler 139_

Blue Hill Country Club 74 Old Course 12. Carolinas Golf Course (reg)89 Standard Golf 33,129

Bunker Hill Golf Course 30 Olde Florida Club 16 Champion Turf 100-101,111 Sto Cote Products 140_

Calabash Golf Links 46. Olympic Club 36 Qhemtura Corp 82,83,112 Syngenta 49,76,77, (reg) 88-89,130

Carey Park Golf Course 46. Orchards Golf Club 44 Ewjng 34 Target Speciality Prod (reg)56a-56b, 131

Cattails at Meadowview 46 Otterbine Barebo 88_ Exaktime 13,41,113 Tee-2-Green 132

Certis USA 15. Parkway Research 88_ Excel! Minerals (reg)94,114 Tee To Green outsert, 133, CV4

Chateau De Loire Golf & Lake Club 10 PBI/Gordon 5Z88_ Fiberbuilt Golf Mats 140_ TifEagle 91_

Cherry Valley Club 46_ Pike Creek Turf 80 Fioratine 115_ The Toro Co 11,134

Chicago Lakes Golf Estate 46_ Pine Brook Country Club 74 Golf Construction News 98_ Trap Master 97,135

Circling Raven Golf Club 37_ Pinehurst Resort 46. Golf Course 140_ Turf Merchants 85_

Cleary Chemical 50. Precision Laboratories 88. Graden USA 6_ Turf Seed 139_

Club at Black Rock 1 Quigley Canyon Golf Course 10 Greenfix Golf Inc 43_ Turfco Mfg Inc 4,79,136

Clubs of Kingwood (The) 4^ Rainier Golf and Country Club 30 Gro Power 6_ Varicore Tech CV3J37 Columbia Country Club 4^ Renditions Golf Course 90 Intl Lawn Garden Powe 56_ White Mountain Golf 138,142

Copper Mill Golf Club 46 Reston National 36 1116. „ , p t Pl . ~ nnnTQ rr John Deere and Co Bellyband, 5,117 TURFGRASS TRENDS -Croasdai leCountryClub ^ ® — — The Andersons 67_ ^Agro-Sciences 142 Royal and Ancient Golf Club 12 ^ ^ — Bayer Env|ronmenta| Science 5 9

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Primo-based granular Superintendents now have the option of a granular product based on Primo for regulating turf growth. The Andersons offers Governor, which provides the benefits of a turf growth regula-tor and the convenience of a granular application. Using Gov-ernor can help reduce mowing labor expense and equipment maintenance, the company says.

It offers the flexibility of using a granular application when it is preferred over a spray application. Governor can also benefit super-intendents by regulating turf growth during times of undesir-able heavy grass growth, frequent golf play or other ath-letic events, or difficult-to-mow areas such as slopes and around fences, trees and shrubs. The active ingredient in Governor is trinexapac-ethyl.

For more information, contact 419-891-2780 or www.Ander-sonsGolfProducts.com

Soil fumigant Curfew soil fumigant a nematicide manufactured by Dow Agro-Sciences, has been granted a 24(c) label from the Mississippi Environmental Protection Agency, making it available for use on turf throughout the state. This is in addition to the existing labels presently in place in Florida, South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama Curfew offers improved rooting and provides effective control of parasitic nematodes and also con-trols mole crickets present at time of application. With improved root-ing, turf is more drought- and stress-tolerant For more information, contact 800-255-3726 or www.dowagro.com.

Algae control SonicSolutions controls algae the envi-ronmentally safe way, using ultrasonic waves. It's safe for fish, plants and other aquatic life, and floats just below the surface and uses less than 45 watts of power. SonicSolutions has proved to be effective in golf course ponds and lakes. For more information, contact 866-562-5423 or www.sonicsolutionsllc.com.

Aerators, fountains Air-Q-Lator's Aquarian commercial floating aerators, available with 1 - to 3-horsepower motors, are designed to establish continual pond turnover, introduce oxygen to the water appropriately and eliminate or prevent algae growth in ponds and lakes.

Air-O-Lator also offers dec-orative fountains, including the Font'n-Aire Ready, Platinum and

Gulf Stream fountains which use stainless-steel water-cooled submersible motors. Font'n-Aire Ready and Platinum are floating fountains that include eight different nozzle spray patterns. The Gulf Stream includes one of six different spray patterns. For more information, contact 800-821-3177 or www.airolator.com

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razors Out of Bounds • S O M E T H I N G C O M P L E T E L Y D I F F E R E N T

For as long as men have been combing the planet, they've found it necessary and wise to rid themselves of unwanted, unruly and

unmanageable facial hair. The great Alexander demanded his

troops go beardless, thus depriving the enemy of something easy to grip dur-ing battle. Alex picked up his shaving tips from the Egyptians, who found it indispensable to go without beards and hair on the dome to keep themselves unruffled in the steamy Nile Delta. William the Conqueror, so it is said, had his men so well trimmed that they were mistaken for monks by the scouts of King Harold. Next thing Harold knew, he had lost England to the well-groomed.

Granted, the stakes aren't quite so high when you rub your eyes in the morning, twist on the hot water and lather up for the morning shave. However, in 2003 the razor industry sold $7.5 billion in razors and blades around the world. And the fight over that money between shaving giants Schick and Gillette has brought a host of lawsuits between the two for copy-right infringement and false advertising. Their corporate shenanigans made me decide to answer the question the old-fashioned way — a shaving showdown.

Some thick-skinned fellows have

ters is which gives the better shave.

So on a Sunday afternoon, with a week of grizzled growth, I foamed up and shaved the left side with the Quattro, the right with the M3Power. I started with the funkily shaped Quattro (only because I didn't have to use a utility knife to open the package). Although it tugged a little toughly at the whiskers, it seemed to do well in the tight spots — just above and below the side of the mouth and around the chin. I noticed no ease in the Quattro's "rinsability," as it took repeated taps, pivots and jets of water to get it clean.

After putting in a battery, I pushed the green button on the much sleeker M3Power and the thing buzzed to life. I didn't quite feel the shaving as I did with the Quattro and the vibro-action appeared to work. The M3Power, too, suffered from clogging early and often.

When I was finished, I rubbed my face like the studs in the commercials but frankly couldn't remotely tell the difference. My grand experiment seemed a slicing failure.

So I went to see my dearest Jen, who was reading. This, I realized, was the most important test of any razor — how does your face feel to your wife?

The Quattro won. So did I.

GENTLEMEN, START YOUR

BATTERY-OPERATED ENGINES,

AS WE LOOK AT THE ONGOING

RACE BETWEEN GILLETTE AND

SCHICK. B Y M A R K L U C E

faces that can handle an electric. Mine doesn't. Further, there remains, however unfair, the notion that real men shave with a razor (and the corollary, only desperate men shave with a disposable). I've been a Gillette man as long as I

can remember, a sucker for its slick marketing campaign since the advent of the Sensor. Still, I've avoided the new M3Power, somewhat puzzled and scared by the notion of my safety razor sporting a motor. Gillette claims

the vibration "stimulates" your facial hair, thus giving you a cleaner, closer shave. The

Schick Quattro boasts four "perfecdy synchronized" blades and "anti-clog tech-nology" that promises "increased rinsability."

The respective com-panies can corral all the high-falutin' language they want, but the only thing that mat-

Mark Luce lives in Kansas City, where he shaves every other day — except when he doesn't.

rhere's a narrow line between affordable and effective.

Multi-Flow is that line.

With its efficient design, a Multi-Flow system will eliminate drainage problems on your course, while saving you time and money.

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