Asian Turfgrass Center

Coming up in October

I'll be speaking about Turf Around the World, and Leaves of Grass, in Idaho

Posted on July 27, 2017

I’m excited to be participating in the upcoming Northwest GCSA Turfgrass Expo 2017 on October 16 and 17. This is going to be a pretty big deal, and you can read about all the details on the website. Here’s a preview of what I’ll be talking about. And it isn’t... [Read More]

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Can we guess how low the P is here

Ben Pease shared a remarkable photo, and you won't believe how low the P is

Posted on July 26, 2017

Every time I see a photo like the one shared by Ben Pease last month, I get really curious to know the soil test levels of the element. Phosphorus deficient bentgrass. Left=untreated. @djsoldat @Drjohnstier @isuturfclub pic.twitter.com/9MjM02T05O— Ben Pease (@Ben_Pease) June 23, 2017 And I wasn’t the only one. Nice, Ben.... [Read More]

Turfgrass at a Tourism Convention

My presentation is about playing conditions on Thailand's golf courses

Posted on July 21, 2017

I’ll be speaking at the Thailand Golf Travel Mart in Khao Yai next week as part of the Thailand Golf Paradise seminar about course design, renovation, maintenance, and operations. These are the slides for my presentation about the best playing conditions with the fewest inputs. This is a tourism convention,... [Read More]

New RSS feed and blog subscription by e-mail

Posted on July 18, 2017

You may have noticed that new blog posts are at www.asianturfgrass.com. The 841 posts from the old blog remain at www.blog.asianturfgrass.com. If you were subscribed to the old blog by RSS feed or e-mail, the feeds have changed. This is the new RSS feed for this site. And I made... [Read More]

Green speed ridgeline plot and the work to produce these conditions

More about the ease of producing green speeds by species

Posted on July 17, 2017

First, here are data from 867 measurements I’ve made from 2011 to 2016 excluding all tournament measurements. Table 1: Number of measurements and median green speed in feet, by species. Data from 867 stimpmeter readings by Micah Woods excluding tournament measurements. species n median bent 270 9.0 bent-poa 18 11.0... [Read More]