Asian Turfgrass Center

Thai GCSA seminar: improving playing conditions and optimizing work efficiency

Posted on December 14, 2020

Today I gave a seminar at the Thai GCSA meeting. Photo by Boy Yothin These are the slides in Thai. And these are the slides in English. We talked about a number of topics. One thing I tried to emphasize was that playing conditions will be best when the grass... [Read More]

The Flying Blind trailer: 8 things to know, measure, and adjust

Posted on December 12, 2020

Filming is complete for episode 3 of ATC’s Grammar of Greenkeeping show and the trailer came out today. This film had been scheduled to debut at an AGIF webinar this month. Some of the member companies apparently didn’t want this information from ATC to come out through the AGIF, so... [Read More]

7 things I've learned about turfgrass around the world

Posted on December 8, 2020

The day has finally arrived! I had a great time making this movie. I’ve been fortunate to have many friends around the world who have taught me a lot, and I spoke with some of them in this video. I’ve also learned a lot by observing, traveling to observe some... [Read More]

5 examples of Goodhart's law in turfgrass management

Posted on December 4, 2020

When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. That’s a generalization of Goodhart’s law. I’m an advocate of measuring some surface performance, plant, and soil parameters. In fact, I’ll be making a couple presentations about that topic this month, so you’ll be hearing more from... [Read More]

A Tale of Two Tests

Why I like to know both humus (a standard soil organic matter test) and total organic matter (the #OM246 test), and how I use that information

Posted on December 2, 2020

This post takes a few minutes to read because it covers this topic in a bit of detail. The summary is, I make use of two types of soil organic matter tests for turfgrass, these tests measure two different things, both important, and I recommend turfgrass managers measure both of... [Read More]