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Clemson Summer Turfgrass Management Intern 2003 |
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Internship: |
Musgrove Mill Golf Club
Clinton, SC |
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Brook Sentell |
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Supervised by Will
Holroyd |
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Brook's |
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Brook Sentell |
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Experience: |
Musgrove Mill Golf Course was just voted the sixth best
golf course in the state by golf digest. MMGC is located in Clinton
S.C. and runs along the Enoree River. This beautiful golf course is
an 18-hole facility with a short game practice area just built last year.
This golf course had a lot going on during the week to maintain the golf
course. MMGC has only a Superintendent and Assistant Superintendent
that works on the facility. MMGC has nine full time employees and a couple
part-time employees with
a full time mechanic. MMGC has given me an
excellent opportunity to learn the many different aspects of everyday golf
course operation. I applied herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, and
fertilizers all over the course, from the greens to weeds. I have
put out restriction use (Nemcur, Battle) and non-restriction use chemicals
(Crossbow, MSMA, Image, Reward). The superintendent gave the
responsibility to watch dry wilt on the bent grass greens, and put me in
charge of a crew laying sod on a bank that he redesigned. While I
was there this summer, I got a chance to mow some greens, tees,
approaches, fairways, and rough. The superintendent and the
assistant superintendent gave me the freedom to work on some irrigation
problem this summer when it wasn't raining. I got to fix irrigation
heads around the greens and the rest of the golf course. I also
helped the superintendent clean the screens in the pump house to keep the
pumps running without shutting down while it is watering. The
assistant superintendent let me assist him in calibrating their SmithCo
sprayer that sprays all 22 greens and a broadcaster to spread fertilizers
on greens and
on tee boxes. The superintendent aerated twice this
summer. The first time he aerated with quarter inch tines on all the
greens accept big putt. He aerated with half inch tine on the top
half of big putt going four to six inches deep and in second gear, and on
the bottom half he went first gear. The second aeration he spike
them with quarter inch spikes, but for BP, 2, 6, 12, and 15 he spike them
with bigger tines. The superintendent informed me could tell a big
difference a week after the second aeration on the greens health. I
enjoyed the internship experience that MMGC and the superintendent and the assistant superintendent gave me while I was there.
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