QUOTABLE

"Use plenty of bourbon in your ice. It helps one get to sleep." - Bob Collins, CGCS, Cripple Creek Golf and Country Club in Bethany Beach, Del., giving advice to other superintendents about preparing a course for a tournament

"Our industry has to be more politically engaged. Golf course superintendents are not as active politically as they could be." - Tom Smith, executive director of the Michigan Turfgrass Foundation, about environmental issues such as water, pesticides and fertilizers

"There are about 15 courses in Nebraska that haven't used core aeration on their greens in the past 10 years and are having great success with just topdressing." Roch Gaussoin, Ph.D., turfgrass scientist at the University of Nebraska

"Basically there's no limit to how far seed can travel. And dry seed can survive 10 years. seeds are one of the major concerns I have in terms of gene flow." - Virgil Meier, Ph.D., a biotechnologist with the Risk Assessment Group of the United States Department of Agriculture, about genetically modified grass

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