The top 10 posts of 2025

These posts had the most views in 2025.

They are on a nice balance of topics: fertilizer, clipping volume, the Turf GvX, playability, tournament conditions, sands, and water.

Here they are.

[1] February, Getting started with clipping volume about how to do something with clipping volume numbers when you are getting started with the measurements.

[2] March, Explaining GvX with a screencast presentation that I recommend to anyone who wants to understand more about the GvX.

[3] January, This fertilizer schedule seems strange to me now about applying the same rate of fertilizer repeatedly.

[4] August, A pesticide free golf course contains a photo gallery of what that looks like, specifically at Furesø Golfklub for the 2025 Danish Golf Championship on the DP World Tour.

[5] June, A method for “any golf course, anywhere, at any level” with something I heard on this podcast.

[6] July, Sands from coarse to superfine with particle size distributions of five sands that cover the range that I’ve seen for sands used on putting greens.

[7] March, Calculating average daily temperature about different methods for calculating this value.

[8] March, Zoysia, bermudagrass, water, and AI in which I asked Google’s NotebookLM to summarize some research articles about bermudagrass, zoysia, and water.

[9] May, Green speed change from morning to afternoon has a summary of performance data from the JLPGA’s Sky RKB Ladies Classic, including a look at green speed from morning to afternoon, which dropped at a rate of 0.6 inches per hour.

[10] January, The top 10 posts of 2024 about useful temperature maps, topdressing, N rates, overseeding dates, ball roll, and much more.

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For a list of all the posts, here are two lists of ATC posts that you may not have seen:

• the secret ATC archive page with post titles listed in reverse chronological order
• scrolling down the authors/admin page goes past my profile and lists all the Latest posts by me, and actually lists all of them