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We are honored to be a part of the remembrance of Drake and other police canine companions, fallen protecting us. Drake was shot four times on November, 18 2012. He was a German Shepherd retired from a force. In spite of heroic efforts by the best veterinarians in the country, Drake didn't make it. He passed away five days later after shooting. 

In the interview to local news, Dr. Simmons' stated: "They (police dogs) are currently classified as equipment, - the depreciable equipment with no value when they are retired. Do dogs deserve some form of status? Hero Status really..." 

The video has been captured at K-9 dedicated Drake and other fallen police dogs Memorial in Greenacres, Florida where GST donated one of our best products - PetGrass-85. Dr. Ken Simmons gives a complete overview of the project done at the Memorial and the ultimate guide to every step of the installation process. Thank you, Dr. Simmons! 

Global Syn-Turf produces more than 65 different lines of artificial grass, and some of it needs special care during the installation. The good example of it is our Pet Grass 85. Designed for an ideal drainage, the backing of this product has no stitch lines, and as an installer you must pay an extra attention to details. 

"We've been using this product for the better part of ten months, and some rain storms have come through that were quite substantial, and we've had absolutely no flooding. There are no smell issues at all. " - said Dr. Simmons. "We have large dogs running at high speeds turning on a dime. Carpet (artificial grass) is not separating. It is no falling apart anywhere. And clients, the perception, that they have now of our park is that it looks like an Augusta National Golf Course. I am very impressed with Dave Maronic and his team for providing us this turf for the Drake Memorial because it is very special thing for us since we have a veterinary hospital, and now we have a Memorial Park that is absolutely spectacular. The turf is just made it wonderful." 

Below is the full transcript. 

If you already own a dog care facility, where lots of dogs are playing at the regular basis, you know that regular grass, although beautiful and very friendly, often dies from disease, it dies from the urine. It gets wet with puddles from rain, and it turns into a mud bath, and all of your pets are playing in this. 

Once you are committed to the idea that you are going to spend the money to have your natural grass replace with an artificial turf, the very first step is to remove the existing material that's in your park. And so, my suggestion is to take out, depending on the value of dogs that are going to be playing in the park, up to 8, maybe even 10 inches of fill, so you end up with a space that can then be packed with the drain rock, and other products. 

There is actually quite a lot to this first stage of removing the fill that is there. So you must be careful because of the sprinkler pipes, water lines, electrical wires, antennas, cables, whatever might be in the ground. You need to be very careful and identify all those things. If there are sprinkler zones, they need to be relocated outside of the perimeter of where the turf is going to be laid, so you don't have to dig it physically up to get to it. 

If you encounter something that needs to be remained in its current position, identify it and place it in the protective box or cabin of some sort, and ultimately you can still cover it with the turf, and allow yourself access at the later date. 

Once the fill has been removed to a measured grade, the next step is bringing in number 57 rock. It's essentially septic drain fill rock. It's an inexpensive product, and here is where you are really want to be an opposite to thrifty. You want to use a lot of this rock. Give yourself at least six to eight inches of base rock compacted, and you are going to end putting a concrete screening over the top of this, but the very next step is to bring the rock in, approximate the level, and then go over it with a compactor, and follow it with a concrete screening, which is a fine concrete dust. That would be laid on top of the septic drain rock and compacted as well. That would be about four-inch bed. 

During the removal of the fill, you are going to encounter the places in your project that do not have linear or a hard surface upon which to attach the turf. That's where you need to pour a concrete curb to give yourself that option. If you have an existing sidewalk, it can be used nicely. Even existing paver or walkways that have a concrete edging can be used to attach the turf. But where there is nothing, you need to replace it with a concrete curb, probably a four-inch wide curb 6 or 8 inches deep that allows you to tack turf to the curb. 

Compacting the septic drain rock as well as the concrete screening is the essential part for this, and needs to be done very carefully and very meticulously. The rock should be moistened with water and tamped as a wet rock, and, ultimately, once the septic drain rock is tamped down, and you are going to lay this four and five inches of concrete screen on top, you do the same thing and tamp it down. It will be surface, but very pervious surface when you finished. You want to take extra care to make sure the details are done correctly on the curb edge, around any objects that might be left behind, trees and the like sometimes can be in the middle of your project. You want to cut around those trees and put some formed curb around them. And this part is very critical. 

Once you finished placing the rock and tamping it down and doing all the prepping that needs to be done, the next step is roll out the carpet. And this is a very important step because the carpet needs to be rolled out, so the grain matches anywhere you seam it. You can't turn the carpet perpendicular to itself, and end up with a good seam. The company that worked for us did a great job. Coastal Synthetic Turf has some technicians that were able to make the seams completely invisible. So the carpet is laid out in its approximate location as the first step and trimmed to fit the location. 

Any place where the seam is required with the dog's turf s really-really important to take a time, to make sure the edges match up perfectly. And then a piece of double-sided, large, white material is laid down, and nailed to the ground such that when the turf is applied to the top of the glue that would be laid on top of that will stick and create a perfectly nice seam. 

Once the seam is placed together on top of the glue, carpet is actually nailed to the ground to ensure that it stays tight to the seam. 

Once the seams are completely finished, large, heavy bags of sand are laid across a scene to make sure they are hold up together. 

As always during this process there will be a lot of clipping, and trimming, and edging things perfect, and that's critical. The details make all the difference. 

And the final stage is to apply sand in quantity to weigh carpet down, to keep it from fluffing around. And then it's brushed very aggressively with a broom to settle into the carpet. 

The goal behind this entire process is to give yourself a fairly significant drainage system beneath the carpet so that when water is applied to it in a great quantity, it flows to the carpet and directly to the drain system. 

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Up to now, PGA leaderboard reviles the top players of this year PGA Golf Championship tournament, with Rory McIlroy ahead. But, for the next golf game the winners are not participating due to the recovery time. The Wyndham Championship is the next stop on the PGA Tour men's golf schedule in North Carolina, just a few days following from an entrancing PGA Championship major tournament that was hold in New York. On the last PGA leaderboard, Rory McIlroy has topped the winnings in the last three tournaments he played, including Open Championship, WGC-Bridgestone, and a PGA Championship that was hold last Sunday. However, none of the three are participating in the Wyndham Championship today, due to a routinely recovery time for many of the stars of the game to take the week off before or after a major. Today's action will receive three hours of live TV network coverage that will probably have low viewing rating. So who are on the leaderboard for this tournament on day one?

On the first day of the golf tournament, Brian Stuard was rated at a top on the PGA leaderboard with an opening round of nine under par with Camilo Villegas is one stroke behind at seven under. Heath Slocum, William McGirt, Webb Simpson, and are current on the same platform at six under. Other several players, including Brandt Snedeker, are all at five under par. Today's Wyndham Championship golf tournament, the PGA leaderboard showed Hath Slocum with a five under par with a total of 130 points. Following Brian Suard with one point behind, with Camilo Villagas falling under two par with 132 point. However, Global Syn-Turf, Inc., who is a leading manufacturing and supplier of synthetic turf, watching how Villegas's positive incentives to take a league in this year's tournament. According to the PGA leaderboard first round leads haven't been so kind to him, because after opening with a 7 under par 63 score on Thursday, he noted to the middle georgia's news source that "I think if I have a good week this week -€” not just today but this week -€” it'll show that I really want to make the team. I want to make a good argument for myself to be a pick." After starting back on the ninth par, he had three early shots before getting closer to the next post. Vellegas followed his birdie shot on the fourth with an eagle on the five under par in fifth hole, placing his second shot about 3 feet from the stick. He claimed only possession of the lead two holes later with a birdie, sinking a 15-foot putt on the third under par of his seventh try.

At Global Syn-Tuft, Inc. we love to watch and to follow PGA leaderboard to recognize who will be the next winner for PGA Golf tournament, because we support our sport team satisfaction to playing on synthetic grass. At GST, we believe that choosing to play a sport on our synthetic grass has a great outcome for the environment and players comfort. ...

Global Syn-Turf, Inc continue to love and to follow the PGA Leaderboard of American golf. Global Syn-Tuft, Inc had been around the golf sport since 2009, when they opened the doors to their manufacturing synthetic turf company. With a Bernhard Langer representative of synthetic turf fields, GST is still cheering Langer to be shown on the next year's PGA leaderboard.

Although, Bernhard Langer was not on the PGA Golf Championship tournament, the PGA leaderboard showed that Rory McIlroy, an Irish golf professional at 25 years old won the Championship for his fourth major title, second of the season, and third consecutive overall win. The victory was his third professional win in a row. His competitor, Tiger Woods was 26 when he won his eighth major at the 2002 US Open. Woods then did not win another major until the 2005 Masters, when he was 29. The issue for Tiger Woods is not whether he will break his record, but whether he will ever pass competition on the majors list. At this point, winning a 15th would elevate his legacy.

On a beautiful day in New York at the start of the tournament, the Irish golf professional lost his opening lead and fell as much as three strokes back. However, he ended up with a total 268 on the PGA leaderboard and made a championship charge over the final nine holes. He began at the 10th hole when he made an eccentric shot, yet extremely effective, second shot into the par (-5). With McIlroy, Mickelson and Fowler separated by a shot coming down the back nine. At the end of the last few pars, Fowler bogeyed the14th hole and had difficulties in getting the gold in the hole. Mickelson dropped a crucial shot at 16th hole to fall a stroke, lending him back from the lead. McIlroy had no such issues and essentially got his name on the trophy with a birdie at last hole. He made the eagle putt to jump right back into the thick of the race and thus, PGA leaderboard showing that this year's winning tournament championship will be Rory McIlroy.

That day on New York golf course, TV Network featured four players with at least part of the lead on the leaderboard, McIlroy, Mickelson, Rickie Fowler and Henrik Stenson. Golf sports network recorded Rory McIlroy's one-shot victory over Phil Mickelson in the PGA Championship produced the highest overnight ratings in five years. The network had a rating of 36 percent more of views since in 2009 when Y.E. Yang made the two shots that were behind in the tournament playoffs to beat Tiger Woods at Hazeltine.

 

See the full report of PGA Championship Leaderboard via PGA.com

PGA Leaderboard

SCORING TO PAR

ROUNDS

PLACE

PLAYER NAME: FIRST | LAST

TOT

8/10/14

1

2

3

4

TOT

1

-

Rory McIlroy

-16

-3

66

67

67

68

268

2

2

Phil Mickelson

-15

 

-5

69

67

67

66

269

T3

3

Henrik Stenson

-14

 

-5

66

71

67

66

270

T3

-

Rickie Fowler

-14

 

-3

69

66

67

68

270

T5

8

Jim Furyk

-12

 

-5

66

68

72

66

272

T5

1

Ryan Palmer

-12

 

-3

65

70

69

68

272

T7

16

Jimmy Walker

-11

 

-6

69

71

68

65

273

T7

16

Ernie Els

-11

 

-6

70

70

68

65

273

T7

12

Victor Dubuisson

-11

 

-5

69

68

70

66

273

T7

6

Hunter Mahan

-11

 

-4

70

71

65

67

273

T7

3

Steve Stricker

-11

 

-3

69

68

68

68

273

T7

1

Mikko Ilonen

-11

 

-2

67

68

69

69

273

T13

6

Brandt Snedeker

-10

 

-4

73

68

66

67

274

T13

-

Kevin Chappell

-10

 

-3

65

74

67

68

274

T15

17

Charl Schwartzel

-9

 

-5

72

68

69

66

275

T15

8

Marc Warren

-9

 

-4

71

71

66

67

275

T15

8

Brooks Koepka

-9

 

-4

71

71

66

67

275

T15

2

Lee Westwood

-9

 

-2

65

72

69

69

275

T15

2

Adam Scott

-9

 

-2

71

69

66

69

275

T15

5

Graham DeLaet

-9

 

-1

69

68

68

70

275

T15

11

Jason Day

-9

 

+1

69

65

69

72

275

T15

9

Louis Oosthuizen

-9

 

E

70

67

67

71

275

T15

13

Bernd Wiesberger

-9

 

+3

68

68

65

74

275

T24

8

Justin Rose

-8

 

-4

70

72

67

67

276

T24

14

Jamie Donaldson

-8

 

E

69

70

66

71

276

26

13

Joost Luiten

-7

 

E

68

69

69

71

277

T27

15

Jerry Kelly

-6

 

-4

67

74

70

67

278

T27

11

Kenny Perry

-6

 

-3

72

69

69

68

278

T27

8

Bill Haas

-6

 

E

71

68

68

71

278

T30

20

Thorbjorn Olesen

-5

 

-4

71

71

70

67

279

T30

7

Alexander Levy

-5

 

E

69

71

68

71

279

T30

11

Danny Willett

-5

 

+1

68

73

66

72

279

T33

9

Cameron Tringale

-4

 

-2

69

71

71

69

280

 

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Stanley Bishop, a president of The PGA of America and an aggressive and profound leader, announced that the PGA's moving to a $10 million purse, the pool of prize money available to golfers in a professional tournament. As Global Syn-Turf, Inc., a leader in artificial grass manufacturing since 2009, continues following the PGA Golf of America - an organization of golf professionals.

According to the SB Nation, the purse has an a $2 million increase from last year, which set the bar for all the other majors golf tournaments, such as Masters, U.S. Open and British Open, to bump their purses from last year's $8 million total. This announcement definitely that upset the synergy of having all four majors golf leads pay out the same amount, consequently the rest of major golf organizations increased their purses this year to at least $9 million, but none matched the $10 million commitment by the PGA last year. In addition to the big boost to the winner's earnings, the $10 million purse also means that the second-place finisher takes home seven figures of the price money. The PGA golf leaderboard shows a mashed lower pay-off for the inferior places, but should someone separate himself into solo second, he'll earn a $1.08 million check. That's $700k less than the winner, still an enormous profit for not even winning a tournament. 

The source of the most of the pool of the money, the purse, comes from different TV networks that broadcast PGA Golf tournaments. According to an article in Forbes, major TV network provides 60 percent of each tournament's purse. The rest of 40 percent of the prize money is provided by the tournament's sponsors, who range from golf clubs and equipment, golf courses to organizations such as Global Syn-Turf, who produces highest quality synthetic grass. The sponsors typically take in revenue from sources such as product advertising, ticket sales, quest parking and franchises, from which they hope to pay their share of the purse, with something left over as profit. Then the shares are divided amongst the winners. Each successive place down the line receives a smaller piece of the pie. Typically, each golfer who makes the final tournament's cut earns some of the prize money. On the Champions Tour the champion receives 15 percent of the purse. In European Tour the winning player will reserve 16.67 percent of the purse. As of 2012, no regular tournament on the PGA Tour offers a purse of less than $1 million. The lowest-paying event on the official PGA Tour calendar is the ADT Skills Challenge, with a total purse of $800,000. Each of the four major tournaments, such as U.S. Open, Masters, British Open and PGA Championship -- offer purses of $8 million, with $1.44 million going to the winner.

In Global Syn-Turf, Inc. we report that according to financial data the revenue that two other field sports, American Football and Baseball, are less overall accumulate than PGA Golf tournaments do. For instance, NFL Super Bowl is the most popular world of sponsorship that pools the prize money for the winning team. The Super Bowl is TV advertising's biggest and most expensive stage, hitting only around $4 million per 30-second spots this year. Consequently, Major League Baseball hopping to reach $9 billion in 2014 for their main sponsorship revenue. Either way, Global Syn-Turf, Inc. hopes to support our country's favorite sports teams in the future. ...

The PGA of America is the home to some of the most important events in golf, such as the PGA Golf Championship, the Senior PGA Golf Championship, The PGA Grand Slam of Golf and The Ryder Cup. PGA Golf tournament includes many extraordinary golf players, but only one stood out for Global Syn-Turf (GST), a leader in artificial synthetic grass industry. In 1985 PGA Golf leaderboard named Bernhard Langer the Master of Golf Champions.

Bernhard Langer, a professional golfer from Germany, won his first of two major PGA Golf Championships that held in 11-14 April 85' at age of 27. Langer scored with two strokes ahead of runners-up Steve Ballesteros, Raymond Floyd, and Curtis Strange. That year PGA golf leaderboard showed a 69 (-3) on Saturday put Floyd in the lead after 54 holes at 212 (-4); Strange was a stroke back, followed by Langer and Ballesteros at 214 (-2). Despite an opening round 80, Strange led by three strokes with six holes to play in the final round, but bogeyed the 13th, 15th, and 18th holes and finished two strokes back. According to the Register-Guard associated press, "It was 'a dream come true," for Langer, who surged from four strokes back with nine holes to play. He claimed his first American title and became only the third foreign player to do the green jacket that goes to the Masters champions." The 1985 PGA golf leaderboard recorded that Langer won by two shots with a 282 total, 6-under-par on the Augusta National Golf Club course. "I was looking at the leader boards and I thought it was going to be another case where I played well and came in second again," Langer said to the associated press. In the final round, the leaderboard recorded Langer rolling in four birdie putts in the 13 to 18-foot range, finishing the four-stroke deficit and wining by two. He won by using two different putting techniques, conventional from distances of 20 feet or more and a cross-handled grip from inside 20 feet.

On July 27, 2014 the Senior Open Championship at Royal Porthcawl Golf Club reworded a victory cup for a closing round of 67 (-4) that Langer win by a staggering 13 shots from Colin Montgomerie. As the Golf Leaderboard reported that Langer shot a final-round 67 for a four-round total of 266 (-18). He broke the Champions Tour record for margin of victory that had been held for 17 years by Hale Irwin. Langer's final round victory march, taking the lead of Wales' first Senior Major Championship to 43 put scoring 503, which is the second highest in the history of the championship. With Langer's incredibly winning total made even more remarkable given that only four other players broke par for the Senior Open Championship. In his interview after the match, Langer stated that "This [was ] unusual," which earned him a place in next year's Open Championship at St. Andrews. He continued, "I've won a tournament by 17, the World Championship under 25 years, but this just doesn't happen, not with the competition you're facing.... So it's been an amazing week for me." With the excitement and satisfaction he continued to his next match competition in Blaine that is holed by 3M Championship. At Global Syn-Turf, the world's leading synthetic grass manufacturers will continue watching the PGA Golf Leaderboard for Langer's success in PGA Golf tournaments.

Congratulations Bernhard Langer - 2014 Senior Open Champion! ...