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I’ve been waiting for this feature for a long time, and I’m glad it is now available. That is the automatic dubbing of the videos on ATC’s YouTube channel into these languages:

After the Masters Tournament, I made the drive up to Knoxville for a visit to the University of Tennessee. I met with students, attended seminars, visited a golf course, and got a tour of the research farm with Dr.

Remember, the OM246 test measures the total organic material, living and dead. A 4 cm diameter core of fine-bladed manilagrass with extensive living plant material below the surface. If the grass has a more extensive root system, or a more extensive rhizome system, the OM value measured on an OM246 test will go up simply from there being more total organic material in the sample.

I was a guest on the USGA Green Section podcast for an episode with the title Hot Takes on Turf with Dr. Micah Woods. Host John Petrovsky asked a range of questions that I found quite interesting, and I hope you will too.

A question came in about green speed. I paraphrase it here: If our peak season target is 10. What is a reasonable deviation from that? We would then aim to hit that 80% of the time to account for weather and cultural practices.

I asked Google’s NotebookLM for some help with this one. I have grown enough grass and seen enough bermudagrass and zoysiagrass growing together in wet and dry conditions to have formed an understanding about these grasses.

Did you know there are different ways to calculate the average daily temperature? A new PACE Turf update discusses this. In that update, I looked at the daily minimum and maximum method, and compared it to the average of hourly measurements method.

I recorded a screencast of my seminar about the Turf GvX that I gave at Harrogate in January. You can watch it here. For those wanting spreadsheets that show the calculation, you can get those at PACE Turf’s GvX reference page.

I really enjoyed listening to Rodney Lingle on the USGA Green Section Podcast. This is a podcast I recommend you all put in your listening queue. Host John Petrovsky leads the conversation in all the directions you’d want it to go.

If you want to have control of green speed, you need to have the growth rate under control. When fewer clippings are being removed from the greens at each mow, the green speed measured by the stimpmeter will be faster.