Asian Turfgrass Center

How to spend less than $5,000 on tournament green fertilizer

It doesn't have to cost a lot of money to get great greens

Posted on August 23, 2017

I don’t often write about this, because I assume everyone knows it. But I’ve read a few things recently about amazing sums of money being saved by changing the way of fertilizing, all while getting the same or better turf conditions. See for example this (69% savings) or this (~$150,000... [Read More]

Sand topdressing to match grass growth

A new spreadsheet from PACE Turf uses growth potential to estimate topdressing rates

Posted on August 20, 2017

There’s a new spreadsheet available from PACE Turf that uses the temperature-based growth potential to estimate the quantity of sand required as topdressing. They wrote: “To get a rough idea of how much sand to apply over the course of the year, we have developed a simple spreadsheet that uses... [Read More]

A lot more than your average tournament

Zoysia greens, free beer, HKT48, and much more

Posted on August 18, 2017

The KBC Augusta tournament is next week (August 24 to 27) on the Japan Golf Tour. There are a lot of reasons why it is a lot more than an average tournament. I’m especially interested in it because of the grass; it is korai (Zoysia matrella) on tees, fairways, and... [Read More]

I just bought a plane ticket to Manchester

Posted on August 16, 2017

I’ll be making my second trip to Harrogate next month, and this time I get to lead some discussions about turfgrass management. The seminar schedule and booking form is here. I’ve been wanting to do this for a long time, and I’m really excited about this opportunity to share, in... [Read More]

Geographical analysis of those using MLSN

An approximation based on the MLSN newsletter

Posted on August 15, 2017

Allan Dewald posted a poll on Twitter, asking how many other superintendents on Twitter are using the MLSN guidelines. The results of the poll, with 93 votes, were 41% using MLSN, 38% using conventional guidelines, and 21% not soil testing. In the discussion about that poll, Duncan wanted to see... [Read More]