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STUDY SITES GENERAL Sample sites were selected on four golf courses, Baker National Golf Course, Woodhill Country Club, Meadowbrook Golf Course and the Minikahda Club in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area fTCMA), Figure 1. Two of the sites, the Minikahda Club and Meadowbrook Golf Course, were located in highly developed urban areas of Minneapolis and St. Louis Park, respectively, and two of the courses. Baker National and Woodhill Country Club were located in more rural areas. Two of the course were public and two were private. Sample sites were chosen to represent a range of conditions found on goif courses In the TCMA relative to soil types, topography, turf grass and levels of management. Typically, turf grass at private courses is more intensively managed than at public facilities. Course managers agreed to follow normal irrigation schedules and application rates and schedules when applying fertilizers and pesticides. Descriptions of the four golf courses selected for the study are as follows: I BAKER NATIONAL GOLF COURSE Baker National Golf Course is a public course located near the western edge of the TCMA, in the city of Medina. The course is within Baker Park Reserve and is owned and operated by the Suburban Hennepin Regional Park District. Baker National consists of an 18 hole regulation and a 9 hole executive course. The golf course was constructed in 1960 and upgraded by Hennepin Parks in 1989. The course encompasses 320 aces of Baker Park Reserve, of which 200 acres is maintained as turf, building sites, or roadways. (Table 1). The remainder of the course is maintained as wetland and forest. Hennepin Parks is in the process of establishing large areas of forest on the course, which was originally in the area known as the "Big Woods". The topography on the course is irregular with 50 percent of slopes between 6 and 12 percent. Soils on the site are well drained clay loam with moderately slow permeability. The water table is generally more than five feet below the surface. Drainage from the course is east to west into the adjacent Spurzem Lake or into a wetland complex downstream from the lake. Approximately ten acres of the course drain to the south toward Lake Minnetonka. An adjacent agricultural area of approximately 100 acres drains through the course beginning at the northeast corner. A one acre pond, which discharges to a 24 inch underground concrete pipe, captures this runoff water. During rainstorm events in excess of 2 inches, the pond frequently overflows and discharges water into a drainage channel which crosses the course and flows to Spurzem Lake.