Gardner losing Hermanson.Byline: Bill Doyle COLUMN: GOLF NOTES In 1972, Tiger Woods  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled. hadn't been born yet, such local golf
courses as Cyprian Keyes, the Woods of Westminster, Kettle Brook and Red
Tail were decades away from opening, and Gardner Municipal Golf Course
hired Mike Hermanson as superintendent.
No other superintendent in the state has worked for the same club for as long, but Hermanson's reign will end next year. Hermanson has informed Gardner's mayor and golf commission of his decision to retire in 2009. He may leave as soon as February, but could end up staying on a few months longer if he's needed. "It's time It's Time was a successful political campaign run by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) under Gough Whitlam at the 1972 election in Australia. Campaigning on the perceived need for change after 23 years of conservative (Liberal Party of Australia) government, Labor put forward a ," Hermanson said. "I see too many people work and work, then retire and the next year they're dead." With members so demanding and Mother Nature cruel at times, most superintendents don't last more than a handful of years at a club. Hermanson enjoyed the security associated with being a Civil Service employee, but he still treated Gardner as if it were his own backyard. His alarm rang at 5:30 a.m. seven days a week. He's respected so much by his peers, he's a past president of the Golf Course Superintendents Association of New England New England, name applied to the region comprising six states of the NE United States—Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The region is thought to have been so named by Capt. . For 71 of the 73 years that Gardner Municipal has been open, the club had just two superintendents, Dan Donovan
Hermanson worked on the grounds crew at Gardner while attending Gardner High and worked two summers at Oak Hill CC in Fitchburg while attending the Stockbridge School of Agriculture Stockbridge School of Agriculture is a fully accredited, two–year agricultural school that is part of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst campus. It was founded as part of the Massachusetts Agricultural College (now University of Massachusetts, Amherst) in 1918. at the University of Massachusetts The system includes UMass Amherst, UMass Boston, UMass Dartmouth (affiliated with Cape Cod Community College), UMass Lowell, and the UMass Medical School. It also has an online school called UMassOnline. . He was substitute teaching in Gardner when he was hired as superintendent in March of 1972. "They took a chance on a 21-year-old kid with little experience," Hermanson said, "and I still enjoy going to work every day." On Hermanson's first day, he discovered that only one of the club's 30 pieces of mechanical equipment - tractors, mowers, trucks, utility vehicles - started. Without a mechanic on staff, Hermanson and his crew somehow got everything in working order. Except for the greens, grass over the entire course was cut at the same height before Hermanson added definition to the course by growing rough and fringe about the greens. Play at Gardner has doubled from 20,000 rounds to 40,000 rounds since Hermanson came on board. Hermanson oversaw hundreds of projects, including the construction of a 14,000-square foot practice green and a 10-acre driving range across the street from the course. He was a driving force behind the formation of Gardner Municipal Golfers Inc., a private fund-raising organization which has raised $400,000 to pay for such projects as the irrigation irrigation, in agriculture, artificial watering of the land. Although used chiefly in regions with annual rainfall of less than 20 in. (51 cm), it is also used in wetter areas to grow certain crops, e.g., rice. system. "When I started here, it was all hoses and sprinklers," Hermanson said. "All we could water was greens and tees." Some of Hermanson's early dates with his future wife Susan were spent watering Gardner's greens by hand at night. Hermanson's most recent project was performing major drainage work on the 11th hole to keep Crystal Lake from flooding the fairway. "The course is fabulous, year in and year out," Gardner golf pro Mike Egan said. "I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. how he does it with the budget he works with. We've got private club greens basically." This is Egan's 32nd year as Gardner's head pro. When Egan was an assistant pro at Alpine CC in West Warwick West Warwick (wôr`wĭk, –`ĭk), town (1990 pop. 29,268), Kent co., central R.I., on the Pawtuxet River; set off from Warwick and inc. 1913. Textile manufacturing remains a leading industry. West Warwick includes the village of River Point. , R.I., the head pro and superintendent there did not get along. "It was horrible," Egan said. "But since day one Michael and I have gotten along, we travel together, we communicate well with each other and he always knows what I'm doing and I know what he's doing. That's so important. We literally talk every day and he's been super to work with." Egan and Hermanson twice finished second in the New England PGA (1) (Professional Graphics Adapter) An early IBM PC display standard for 3D processing with 640x480x256 resolution. It was not widely used. (2) (Programmable Gate Array) See gate array and FPGA. Pro-Superintendent Tournament. Hermanson won the club championship in 1981 and another of the club's major events, the DeLay Memorial, in 1976, but he hasn't played much in recent years. Hermanson spent 25 winters refereeing high school and women's college basketball College basketball most often refers to the American basketball competitive governance structure established by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, or NCAA. History
"I'll keep my mouth shut," he said. Hermanson said Gardner will open for the season on Tuesday. All in the family... Now that Don Marrone has purchased Kettle Brook GC in Paxton to go with his beloved Wachusett CC in West Boylston, he has spread his family around both courses. Marrone's son Nick will serve as director of golf at both, but will work primarily out of Kettle Brook this spring. "We're trying to bring the blue print of Wachusett to Kettle Brook," Nick Marrone said. Marrone's son Mike has taken over as superintendent at Kettle Brook after serving as construction supervisor at Wachusett in recent years. Marrone's son Matt will continue as superintendent at Wachusett. Dave Askren will manage the pro shop at Wachusett and Dana Shusta will run the pro shop at Kettle Brook. The Marrones kept the silo on the 13th hole, but made other changes at Kettle Brook. The eating area at the 19th hole was expanded to seat 40 and will be catered by Wachusett. Pro shop merchandise has been expanded and the club will accept tee times online. Most early afternoon leagues and weekend golf outings were dropped to open more tee times. Wachusett members will be able to play Kettle Brook when Wachusett has outings. Drainage work is planned this spring on Kettle Brook's second, third and fourth holes. PubLinks at Blissful... Blissful Meadows in Uxbridge will host the Mass. Public Links Championship on Aug. 11-12. This will be only the third time the 26-year-old event has been held at a Central Massachusetts course and the first time since Shaker Hills GC in Harvard hosted it in 1997. Blissful is enlarging the tee on the par-5, dogleg dog·leg n. 1. a. Something that has a sharp bend, especially a road or route that bends abruptly. b. A sharp bend or turn: Make a dogleg at the fire station and continue south. third hole and will add two bunkers in the landing area. The clubhouse deck will be remodeled. Blissful has added a special rate on Fridays - $39 to play all day for walkers - and has included Fridays in its weekday special of 18 holes, cart and lunch for $57. Gerry Paulauskas, who leases Hillcrest CC from the town of Leicester with Bruce Smith This article is about the football player. For other uses, see Bruce Smith (disambiguation). Bruce Bernard Smith (born June 18, 1963 in Norfolk, Virginia) is a former NFL football player who currently holds the NFL record for most career quarterback sacks with 200. , plans to build an elevated tee on the par-3 fifth hole this summer. Kevin White Kevin White may refer to:
The fourth annual Mass. Senior Open will be held July 10-11 at Holden Hills. Pleasant Valley head pro Paul Parajeckas won last year. Templewood GC superintendent Randy Sawin plans drainage work and tee renovations. Scottish Meadows in Warren expects to become an 11-hole golf course soon. The first two holes on the back nine will open in late spring or early summer, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. general manager Mike Opalenik. Construction of the remaining seven holes hasn't been started yet. The number of rounds is down at many golf courses, but they're up at Quail Hollow Quail Hollow is a neighborhood in south Charlotte roughly located in between Park Road and Carmel Road, south of Dilworth and north of Ballantyne and Pineville. Largely residential until the recent construction of the new Ritz-Carlton Residences, a mixed-use, residential, retail and in Oakham. Owner Gary Donlin said the number of rounds, memberships, leagues and tournaments were all up last season and he expects them to increase again this year. Donlin attributes the increases to reducing greens fees. The 18-hole fees were cut by $5 last season to $15 for weekdays and $25 for weekends and they'll remain at those rates this year. Quail Hollow also opened a starter shack on the first tee late last summer. Bay Path GC's long awaited new practice green is scheduled to open this spring. Justyne Smith said the four years that her husband Jeffrey, the club's owner, has worked on the green have finally paid off. The green was seeded last fall. The fourth tee had been lengthened and should open this spring as well. The club has purchased 20 new electric carts. Jim Siekierski begins his first full season as general manager at Dudley Hill. He replaced Bob Cipolla last September. Siekierski's son, Aaron, will join the club as an assistant in the pro shop after graduating from the University of Connecticut The University of Connecticut is the State of Connecticut's land-grant university. It was founded in 1881 and serves more than 27,000 students on its six campuses, including more than 9,000 graduate students in multiple programs. UConn's main campus is in Storrs, Connecticut. next month. Aaron won the Mass. Junior Championship in 2003 and golfs at UConn. Dudley Hill is enlarging the forward tee on the fifth hole and plans to reshape most bunkers. The club is running a weekday special from 9 a.m. until noon: $20 for nine holes, a cart and sandwich, or $30 for 18 holes, a cart and sandwich. Mark Brady, formerly of Whitinsville, Green Hill and Pleasant Valley, is the new superintendent at Monoosnock CC in Leominster. Monoosnock's pro shop has been renovated and the club plans to lengthen and level several tee boxes and improve drainage in the sixth and ninth fairways. Dave Hall, entering his 11th year as head pro at Raceway Golf Club in Thompson, expects the new par-3 14th hole to open in the fall. The hole will play 195 to 215 yards. The current 178-yard, par-3 14th will remain in play until then. Regional tournament schedule Event Dates Site Cronin Memorial May 1-2 CC of Halifax Norfolk County Classic May 17-18 Presidents GC Western Mass Open TBD TBD abbr. to be determined Crumpin-Fox Club Cape Cod Open May 28-29 Olde Barnstable GC, Hyannis GC The Hornblower Memorial May 30-31 Plymouth CC Sherrill Cup June 4 Essex CC Worcester County Four-Ball June 7-8 Green Hill Municipal GC Vermont Open June 9-11 Lake Morey CC Bank of America Championship The Bank of America Championship is a golf tournament on the Champions Tour. It is played annually in June in Concord, Massachusetts, United States, at the Nashawtuc Country Club. Bank of America is the main sponsor of the tournament. June 16-22 Nashawtuc CC Northeast Amateur Invitational June 18-21 Wannamoisett (R.I.) CC CVS (1) (Concurrent Versions System) A version control system for Unix that was initially developed as a series of shell scripts in the mid-1980s. CVS maintains the changes between one source code version and another and stores all the changes in one file. Charity Classic June 22-24 Rhode Island Rhode Island, island, United States Rhode Island, island, 15 mi (24 km) long and 5 mi (8 km) wide, S R.I., at the entrance to Narragansett Bay. It is the largest island in the state, with steep cliffs and excellent beaches. CC The Invitational June 25-26 New England CC Greater Portland Open June 25-27 Riverside GC WGAM WGAM Working Group on Antarctic Meteorology Mother & Son June 30 Fall River CC Worcester County Amateur July 5-6 Wachusett CC, Kettlebrook GC CYO CYO abbr. Catholic Youth Organization CYO n abbr (US) (= Catholic Youth Organization) → JC f Championship July 7-11 Ponkapoag GC Massachusetts Senior Open July 10-11 Holden Hills CC New England Junior Open July 15-16 Ponkapoag GC New Hampshire New Hampshire, one of the New England states of the NE United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts (S), Vermont, with the Connecticut R. forming the boundary (W), the Canadian province of Quebec (NW), and Maine and a short strip of the Atlantic Ocean (E). Open July 21-22 North Conway CC WGAM Amateur Championship July 21-24 Salem CC Berkshire Hills Singles July 27-29 Berkshire Hills CC Connecticut Open July 28-30 Round Hill Club Rhode Island Open July 30-31 Pawtucket CC Ouimet Memorial Invitational July 30-Aug. 1 Wollaston, Framingham, Woodland Concord Four-Ball Invitational Aug. 1-2 Concord CC Western Mass Amateur Aug. 7-8 Elmcrest CC Massachusetts Women's Open Aug. 11-13 Ipswich CC Maine Open Aug. 11-14 Fox Ridge Golf Course (ME) Boston Open Aug. 16-17 William J. Devine GC North Shore Amateur Aug. 19-20 Far Corner GC Tarlow Invitational Aug. 25-26 Thorny Lea GC NEPGA Championship Aug. 25-27 The Country Club, Weston GC Vermont Senior Open Aug. 27-28 Mount Snow CC Deutsche Bank Championship The Deutsche Bank Championship is a PGA Tour golf tournament that occurs every year on Labor Day weekend. The tournament began in 2003 and is held at the Tournament Players Club of Boston in Norton, Massachusetts. Aug. 26-Sept. 1 TPC (Transaction Processing Performance Council, San Francisco, CA, www.tpc.org) An organization devoted to benchmarking transaction processing systems. In order to derive the number of transactions that can be processed in a given time frame, TPC benchmarks measure the total performance of of Boston Source: Massachusetts Golf Association ART: PHOTOS CUTLINE: (1) On the job since 1972, Mike Hermanson will retire as superintendent of Gardner Municipal Golf Course next year. (2) Defending Mass. Senior Open champion Paul Parajeckas. PHOTOG pho·tog n. Informal A person who takes photographs, especially as a profession; a photographer. : (1) T&G File Photo |
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