In this month’s roundup: shade photos from bentgrass and bermuda, is it necessary to core aerify putting greens, a year of aeration in one operation, sustainable development standards for golf, and much more. Travis Russell took some great photos of bermudagrass under different amounts of shade: Nice visual changes in... [Read More]

While Eric Reasor was collecting the data on ball roll dispersion in Thailand – read yesterday’s post for more about that – I collected data on the the same greens. The data summary shown here are the data I collected from 19 greens on 19 different courses. The grasses on... [Read More]

The 1st at Ootacamund Gymkhana Club (founded 1896) is strikingly reminiscent of the 10th at Augusta National. This long dogleg left plays steeply downhill in a wide corridor between tall evergreen trees. Unlike Augusta National, no mechanical mowers have ever been used on this fairway. In the never-ending debate of... [Read More]