Hot Takes on Turf

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. Here are links to more information about a few of the things we discussed.

• Blog post about what not to do, thinking of advice I got from Stan Zontek at the 2010 U.S. Open about telling people what not to do when it comes to soil nutrient analyses
• Sand topdressing measurement by exact methods and topdressing by exact depth, how to work it out
• Zoysia and water use, but with artificial intelligence (Google’s NotebookLM) doing the summary to take my experience and observations and viewpoint out of it.
• No Poa after 16 years discussion with Bob Raley
• The surprising result where any amount of potassium K fertilizer increased dollar spot severity on both creeping bentgrass and on Poa annua. See the PACE Turf update about this.
• The MLSN page on the ATC website; the PACE Turf MLSN page.
• The International Turfgrass Research Conference in Japan
• Core sweepers that work beautifully
• Automowers with Janne Lehto in a Cart Rides with Micah episode from Finland about robotic mowers
• ATC Doublecut episode about Robotic automowers for golf course (and all kinds of) turf with Janne Lehto, MG