The video of my seminar for Campus del Césped is now available. You can watch it with audio in English or in Spanish. It goes by fast with the playback speed set at 1.5 or 1.75. I talked about how I would manage grass in 2020. It turns out to... [Read More]

Every turfgrass manager knows that it is dangerous to grow the grass too slow. Something like this might happen. This bentgrass putting green in central Japan was growing too slow and shows problems with dollar spot, algae, slow recovery of pitchmarks, and senescing leaves. It is easy to tell when... [Read More]

Does this sound about right? Matching sand topdressing to the growth of the grass works out pretty good when applying 1 cm3 of sand for every 1 cm3 of clipping volume. That works out to be 1 mm of sand applied—you know I think depth is the most convenient unit... [Read More]

I’ve sometimes explained the temperature-based turfgrass growth potential (GP) of PACE Turf in relation to the grass conditions at the Masters Tournament. The playing conditions at the Masters are superb, and the cool-season grass in that season is growing at near optimum temperatures. When the right work is done to... [Read More]

I first took a close look at this in early 2015, when I made some changes to the website so it would display better on mobile screens. At that time, 39% of the visits to the ATC websites were from mobile devices (phones), 49% were still coming from computers, and... [Read More]