Stephen Logan, currently a junior

in Golf Course Management pro-

gram was selected to represent

SUNY-Delhi at the Jacobsen’s

Future Turf Manager’s Seminar

held this past May at the Jacobsen

-Textron headquarters in Char-

lotte, North Carolina. Stephen

was able to spend a week at the

seminar with other turfgrass

management majors from across

the country, learning about the

industry, witnessing the manufac-

turing and test driving new equip-

ment. After the week, Stephen

started his 2nd internship at TPC

Potomac in Bethesda, MD.

Darrin Batisky, Jacobsen Territory Sales Manager for the Northeast, and Mike

Curtis of MTE Turf Equipment Solutions presented the Delhi Turf pro-

gram with a 2013 electric Eclipse 118F walk behind Greens Mower at

the annual Student Turf Equipment Field Day at Delhi. The donation is

greatly appreciated and will be used in several of the classes through-

out the year.

Jacobsen’s Future Turf Manager’s Seminar

I N S I D E T H I S

I S S U E :

Scholarship win-

ners

2

Horticulture Club

news

2

Turf Club news 2

Internship 2

Class projects 4

Landscape Design

class trip

4

Jacobsen/Textron Donate Electric Walk-behind Greens Mower

T U R F

L A N D S C A P E

H O R T I C U L T U R E

Golf & Plant Sciences F A L L 2 0 1 3

Y O U C A N

V I S I T W I T H

U S A T :

Turf & Grounds

Exposition

Rochester, NY

Nov 12-14 , 2013

Delhi Open House

Delhi, NY Nov

23, 2013

GCSAA

Orlando, FL Feb

1-6, 2014

New England

Grows

Boston, MA

Feb 5-7, 2014

PLANET Student

Career Days

Fort Collins, CO

March 20-23, 2013

SUNY Delhi

Steve Logan is pictured in the middle with the Delhi T-shirt.

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Horticulture Club News

Student Scholarships

Thanks are in order to the Jacobsen Company for providing new scholarship opportuni-ties for students. Nick Pennella, Kayle Fullforth, and Steven Slaughter were awarded $500 scholarships each.

The Delhi Turf Club, are off to a busy start! Thus far the club has set goals for the year, which consists of attending both the NY State Turf and Grounds Exposition in Rochester, NY and the GCSAA Tradeshow & Conference in Orlando, FL. to compete in the Turf Bowl competition they each host. The club has also taken a few local trips to see different layout styles of golf courses, participated in the college’s Community Service Day and Open House, as well as set up fundraisers such as raking leaves and selling chocolate bars to help attain these goals.

This year’s Horticulture Club members have a lot of energy and hope to accomplish many good things to

further their learning. Already the club has started weekly mini-informational sessions where club mem-

bers share knowledge with each other. Our first learning session covered the plant: Atropa belladonna,

commonly known as Deadly Nightshade or Belladonna. The club is also pursuing a project in which they

will create a display of antique horticulture and landscape design books. This collection will be placed in a

special case located in the library. To round off the semesters’ education theme, the club is also planning

a fall trip with guided tour of Longwood Gardens and a professional presentation on the art of bonsai.

For the official Community Service Day, the club cleaned out shrub and perennial beds around Farnsworth

Hall – what a difference a little clean-up can make! A fund raiser of selling spring flowering bulbs is just

coming to a close. Proceeds will be going to the annual PLANET Student Career Days which is planned for

Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado! It seems just like yesterday that we were there, but

that was in 2001 - wow!

G O L F & P L A N T S C I E N C E S

Turf Club Highlights

Cable Television Show Highlights Delhi’s Golf and Plant

Sciences Programs

The golf programs at SUNY-Delhi were featured in a weekly cable TV show “Tee Time” on Time Warner Sports channel. The 30 minute show highlighted the unique hands-on curriculum and facilities of the Golf and Plant Sciences programs. The Industry and College support for the pro-grams, the Turf Center, and the golf course was acknowledged in the show.

Student Internship opportunities

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Peter Bartz - Lakeshore Country Club Rochester, NY

Curtis ciulla - Victoria National Golf Club Newburgh, IN

Benjamin Czyzewski - Schuyler Meadows Club Loundonville, NY

Noah Tubbs - Sleepy Hollow CC Scarborough, NY

Casey Underwood - Card Sound Golf Club Key Largo, FL

Tim Bruno - Liberty National Bayonne, NJ

James Suderley - Merion Golf Club Ardmore, PA

Shawn Brownell - Robert Trent Jones GC Gainesville, VA

Brendan Weinstein—The Country Club of Fairfield Fairfield, CT

Steve Carter - The International Golf Club Bolton, MA

Chad Cornish—Country Club of the Rockies Edwards, CO

Ben Dewan - Muirfield Village Golf Club Dublin, OH

Mike Kincaid - Oak Hill Country Club Rochester, NY

Delhi Turf students completed internships in 13 states this year. It was a big year for working golf tournaments, including 2 of the 3 Men’s majors in the United States (3 of 3 if you count that one student was selected to work the overseeding process at Augusta National last Fall). Student interns had their hand in working the Men’s and Women’s US Open, PGA Championships, Bar-clay’s and Deutsche Bank tournaments of the FedEx Playoffs, Walker Cup, and several PGA and Web.com tour events. Thanks to all who took on a Delhi Intern this past season!

Doug Brown- Winged Foot Golf Club Mamaroneck, NY

Kevin Rajk - Nemacolin Woodlands Resort Farmington, PA

Nick Pfister - Waccabuc Country Club Waccabuc, CT

Mike McCauley - The Los Angeles Country Club Los Angeles, CA

Derick Mara - Winchester Country Club Winchester, MA

Wyatt Kotary - The Club at Carlton Woods Tomball, TX

Brian Legg - En-Joie Golf Club Endicott, NY

Steve Logan - TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm Potomac, MD

Keith Hallock - Orchid Island Golf & Beach Club Orchid, FL

Sean French - Round Hill Club Greenwich, CT

Kayle Fullforth - Country Club of the Rockies Edwards, CO

Wesley D'Angelo - National Golf Links of America Southampton, NY

Joe Lambert - TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm Potomac, MD

Kyle Williams - W&W Nursery Apalachin, NY

Ashley Baker - Planting Fields Arboretum Oyster Bay, NY

Devin Guarino- Twin Brooks Nursery Millbrook, NY

Brandi Carufe - SUNY Delhi Delhi, NY

Mitchell Grahnert - East Aurora Country Club East Aurora, NY

Ryan Chatham - Terry Hills Golf Course Batavia, NY

Ethan Spatol - Links at Hiawatha Landing Apalachin, NY

Steve Slaughter - Sleepy Hollow Country Club Scarborough, NY

Sullivan Murphy - En-Joie Golf Club Endicott, NY

Jacob Lamarche - Yahnundasis GC New Hartford, NY

George Ducharme - Granite Links Quincy, MA

Bill Considine - Hamilton Farms Gladstone, NJ

Luke Rogers - Oakmont Country Club Oakmont, PA

Jake Goldsmith - ELITE Landscaping, Ltd Poughkeepsie, NY

Jeff Sorkow - Westchester Country Club Rye, NY

Matt Carter - Monroe Country Club Pittsford, NY

Superb weather for this year’s garden tour

field trip made a wonderful experience unfor-

gettable. The Planting Design class with pro-

fessor, Birgitta Brophy, ventured to the typi-

cal sites but added yet another stop to round

out the day. The students were introduced to

three very different garden styles: the Asian

influenced “Cup Garden” at Innesfree, the

Italian Renaissance inspired garden at Weth-

ersfield and lastly a picturesque garden design

guided by Andrew Jackson Downing at Mont-

gomery Place. A truly enjoyable time was had

by all.

For projects this fall, the Planting Design class

is designing residential landscapes for several

campus faculty and staff in the community.

Being able to survey properties, meet clients,

develop schematic designs and present a final

design solution has been and remains to be an

invaluable learning tool. We look forward to

this year’s projects!

Dr. Ben McGraw and

the Entomology

Class out collecting

bugs.

Landscape Design & Management:

SUNY DELHI

GOLF & PLANT SCIENCES

Kathy Gillooley and Julia Ward plant cen-

tennial tree’s with the Introduction to

Horticulture Class.

With Julia Ward’s efforts, along with CADI, the Turf Club and the student

senate we were able to purchase a tower Hydroponic/Aeroponic gardening

system , in an effort to promote the Farm to Table program here at SUNY

Delhi. The system is a no weeding, no tilling, kneeling or getting dirty, just

plug and play vertical garden system. The hope is to grow different vegeta-

bles to be used by the Culinary students and/or CADI, as well as introduce a

newer Hydroponic technology to our students.

Hydroponic/Aeroponic Tower Garden

Birgitta Brophy’s

Drawing and Sur-

veying class.