"Never has a sport needed to adapt more"

Posted on January 15, 2018

In the latest World Golf Report, I came across a link to Giles Morgan’s post on Sport – it’s all about Darwinning. This was a broad discussion of sports thriving – or not. Morgan had this to say about golf: “For 12 years in my former role at HSBC, I... [Read More]

Monthly Turfgrass Roundup: December 2017

Drought, potassium, seaweed extracts, year-end lists and reviews, unique golf courses in Asia, nutrients in irrigation, topdressing in Japan, and more

Posted on January 10, 2018

Beth Guertal wrote about potassium and drought stress. If one has a lot of numbers, what’s an easy way to summarize them? Paul Jansen wrote an article and photo essay of 11 distinctive golf courses in southern Asia. I answered a question about MLSN: is it the average? What about... [Read More]

Turfgrass Twitter Analysis

Posted on January 9, 2018

I used the rtweet package to collect turfgrass community tweets from 2017. I had learned of this package from Bob Rudis’ blog post about rtweet. At the end of the year, I had a bit of time, and a lot of curiosity, so I finally tried it. I wondered if... [Read More]

The top 10 posts of 2017

Posted on December 30, 2017

These posts from 2017 had the most pageviews this year. Here they are, counting down from ten to one. [10] June, How much N is in rain and snow? One hears all kinds of numbers. I was surprised to learn these data are regularly measured. There is no need to... [Read More]