Southern Hills Country Club – Tulsa, Okla.

As host of 14 major championships and the upcoming 2009 U.S. Amateur, Southern Hills Country Club is a historic gem and golfer’s fantasy.

Golf legends Ben Hogan and Arnold Palmer have called the course’s twelfth hole one of America’s greatest par fours. Its right-to-left sloping fairway demands a precision drive down the slight left dogleg onto a blind landing area. A second shot, made with a long to middle iron, must careen past water and sand bunkers onto a well-banked green. Even the pros are likely to bogey. But the real challenge of outsmarting the course’s obstacles falls on Russ Myers, CGCS.

“We may experience thirty days of ice cover, then get hit with two and a half months of straight rain and then dry heat,” he said. “I have to trust my experience, not the forecast to keep the greens in championship shape.”

When Myers was faced with an outbreak of pythium volutum on the greens at Southern Hills, he turned to monthly applications of Insignia® fungicide at a rate of 0.9 ounces per 1,000 square feet, to keep the disease at bay.

“Insignia is an absolute staple in our rotation,” Myers said. “It is an effective preventative treatment and works well to cure infection that’s been exasperated by spouts of damaging weather.”