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John Mascaro's Photo Quiz
John Mascaro is President of Turf-Tec International
John Mascaro's Photo Quiz Answers from page 17
If you would like to submit a photograph for John Mascaro's Photo Quiz please send it to John Mascaro, 1471 Capital Circle NW, Ste # 13, Tallahassee,
FL 32303 call (850) 580-4026 or email to john@turf-tec.com. If your photograph is selected, you will receive full credit. All photos submitted will
become property of SportsTurf magazine and the Sports Turf Managers Association.
This municipal golf course in Kansas
experienced a severe thunderstorm
last May where they received almost
5 inches of rainfall within a 2-hour
period on the golf courses and their
athletic fields. The dark green lines
on turf are a telltale sign of a lightning
strike with the strike in the center and
the finger-like lines of where the elec-
tricity spread out. If a golfer or main-
tenance worker were present during
this storm, the photo would have a
whole different ending. A couple days
later, the turf turned brown in these
dark green areas. There was also
extensive flooding on the golf course
and sports facility. The city's syn-
thetic fields received enough rainfall
that the surface "wrinkled" but went
down so fast that the parks supervisor
was unable to get a photo.
Photo taken by Terry Rodenberg,
superintendent for recreation servic-
es, City of Overland Park, at the St.
Andrews Golf Course.
