Manny Sousa

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  www.montereyherald.com/local/ci_6183594 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/20/2007    Last Visited: 6/20/2007  

  Golf course destruction seems to happen at random, said Manny Sousa, superintendent at Poppy Hills Golf Course in Pebble Beach.He said his course hasn't been struck recently.
  
  "They just tend to hit one course for a while and then
  
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  move on," Sousa said Tuesday."Hopefully, somebody will catch them before they mess with the next one."
  
  Sometimes the vandalism can be fairly well-planned out, he said.When he was working at a golf course in Northern California, Sousa said, someone cut up small triangles throughout the green like a crossword puzzle.
  
  Another time at the same course, he said, pranksters wrote messages in the grass with gasoline.
  
  "(They weren't) exactly the messages you want to take home to grandma," he said.
  
  In the end, Sousa said he's not sure exactly why vandals destroy golf courses.
  
  "They don't realize that it's not the golfer that has to go out there and fix it.It's the crew.It falls on us and we have to put it back together," he said.

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  Manuel L. Sousa, GCSAA Class A superintendent, is hosting the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am

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  Published on: 11/26/2002    Last Visited: 11/23/2004  

  Manny Sousa Superintendent

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  Front Page News -- Northern California Golf Association - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/13/2007    Last Visited: 3/26/2009  

  Poppy Hills Superintendent Manny Sousa has started a maintenance blog.

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  Published on: 2/7/2008    Last Visited: 2/4/2010  

  Manuel L. Sousa, GCSAA Class A superintendent, is hosting the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am

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  GCSAA - 2002 Tournament fact sheet - PGA Tour - AT&T... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/3/2002    Last Visited: 11/3/2002  

  GCSAA golf course superintendent: Manuel L. Sousa
  
  Education: A.S. Electronics, M.P.C., Monterey, Calif., 1970
  
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  This year as part of a three-year process, Sousa and his staff drained the fairways at Poppy Hills by using 35,000 lineal feet of drain pipe, gravel, sand and sod . The 9th hole has been redesigned and recontoured from the teeing area to within 100 yards of the green . Six tees have been releveled and reshaped . The bunkers have been renovated and resoded to their original shapes . Work has been done to lower the back left shelf of the 17th green aloowing for more hole locations.There are concrete paths throughout the course.

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  GolfCalifornia.com - What will be the fate of Poppy... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 12/3/2000    Last Visited: 3/17/2001  

  The biggest change in the course since then has been drainage , said Poppy Hills superintendent Manny Sousa.Most people have no concept what we did..
  
  What Sousa and his crew did , exactly , was to install an immense drainage system that covers the entire course.
  
  Related Links
  
  • Pebble Beach Company Plans for a New Golf Course• Course Review : Poppy Hills• Past GolfCalifornia.com Course Reviews
  
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  Sousa , who has been the superintendent at Poppy since it first opened in 1986 , also said Poppy Hills wasn't prepared for heavy rains that can sometimes hit the Monterey Peninsula.
  
  Through the first five years the course was open , the Peninsula was in a drought and didn't get much rain , Sousa said.The course was bone dry.Then , in 1992 and 1993 the rains came , and through 1994-1997 the rain kept getting worse.The course just couldn't handle it..
  
  Other problems with the course in its early years included the greens , which at one time were a combined mixture of half bent grass and half poa annua.

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  Published on: 7/3/2001    Last Visited: 2/24/2004  

  Manny Sousa, Poppy Hills

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  Published on: 1/19/2005    Last Visited: 1/19/2005  

  Only a few years ago, longtime superintendent Manny Sousa and his crew installed an immense drainage system that covers the entire golf course.There are drainage pipes in every 15 feet along the fairway.
  
  "We lost a few trees during that last spell, but overall we did great," Sousa said.

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