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SUPER QUESTION
What part of your job do you wish you had more
Jon Heselwood
Buffalo Hill Golf Club
Kalispell, Mont.
www.golfbuffalohill.com
A. With the collapse of the economy, the
decline of golf and inflation, our budgets
are still shrinking. As a result, I wish I had
more time to supervise and wasn't in the
saddle, so to speak, actually doing jobs
like mowing greens, cutting cups, spraying
and repairing sprinklers 7 days a week.
Dan Rootes
Ponderosa Butte Golf Course
Colstrip, Mont.
A. The aspect of my job I would like to concentrate
and maintenance. Being a small low-budget course,
any other full-time employees, so most of the maintenance
increasing costs of equipment, we need to extend
we can. Cutting unit setup is becoming more critical
creases. The margin for error when trying to maintain
and the technology is so much more advanced
as superintendents.
Eric Bauer
Bluejack National
Montgomery, Texas
www.bluejacknational.com
A. It is very hard to pick one aspect. I got
into this business for many reasons from
working outdoors, to training and devel-
oping associates. But if I had to pick one
it would be the reaction that we as super-
intendents get from a member or guest
when they enjoyed playing our course.
The fact that we bring enjoyment to some-
one's life is very rewarding.
Tracey Hawkins
Yocha Dehe Golf Club
Brooks, Calif.
www.yocha-de-hegolfclub.com
A. Outreach. Getting involved with school
districts, letting them use our "links" as labs,
debunking negatives against golf courses.
Mel Waldron III
Horton Smith Golf Course
Springfield, Mo.
www.parkboard.org/816
/Horton-Smith-Golf-Course
A. Getting irrigation more fine-tuned.
Would really like to put down just what
is needed and evenly applied.
Randy Oldham
Logan River Golf Course
Logan, Utah
www.loganutah.org
A. I would like to have more time to super-
vise and plan. With the golf industry in de-
cline, I have had to fill both superintendent
and assistant superintendent positions.
Kalispell, MT
Colstrip, MT
Brooks, CA
Logan, UT
Springfield,
