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TURF EXPERT TO OFFER NEW COURSE AT UF FORT PIERCE

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Contributed by: Robin Koestoyo on 10/19/2007

To serve Okeechobee's four golf courses' employees, the University of Florida/IFAS Indian River Research and Education Center will offer a new course, Golf and Sports Turf Management, for spring semester 2008.

The course will begin Monday, Jan. 7, from 4 until 6 p.m., and will be held each Monday until the semester ends in late April. J. Bryan Unruh, Ph.D., an expert in golf course management and Dr. Jason Dettman-Kruse, an athletic field specialist, will instruct the course live from UF's campuses in Milton and Gainesville, Fla. Videoconference technology will be used to deliver the course to students throughout the state, with which students may interact with the instructor, including those at the Indian River Research and Education Center near Fort Pierce.

Unruh said the course will provide attendees with strategies involved in golf course and athletic field operation including development of cultural practices, adherence to environmental regulations, personnel management and budgeting.

"Students from all teaching locations in Florida will meet at a golf course and athletic field complex sometime during the semester for an outdoor laboratory session," said Unruh. "The meeting will give me a chance to meet all of the students and for them to work with turf at an operating facility."

The course format will include lecture presentations, special topics discussions, guest speakers and panels. Lecture topics will include construction concepts, management of golf course turf and sports fields and drainage. Special topics will feature ethics and the use of genetically altered turf, environmental issues and chemical use.

"The course is designed to enhance and extend what students are learning from instructors at Indian River Community College's outstanding golf course management program," said PJ van Blokland, professor at the UF Indian River Research and Education Center. "The UF course will provide some deeper knowledge in sport turf management and other related topics."

Unruh, an Associate Professor of Environmental Horticulture at the UF Milton Campus, and Kruse, an Assistant Professor based in Gainesville also teach courses in turfgrass culture, landscape and turfgrass management.

To enroll in Golf and Sports Turf Management, or for more information about UF courses and degree programs at the UF/IFAS Indian River Research and Education Center, contact Kim Wilson at (772) 468-3922, Ext. 126, or by e-mail at wilsonks@ufl.edu. For specific information about the course contact Dr. Bryan Unruh at (850) 995-3720, Ext. 108, or by e-mail at: jbu@ufl.edu. Dr. Kruse can be reached at (352) 392-1831, Ext. 261, or by e-mail at jkdk@ufl.edu

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