bentgrass

Many golf course superintendents around the world manage creeping bentgrass greens for some portion of the year in what we could call tropical conditions. One of the places where summers have tropical heat, and where there are a lot of bentgrass greens, is Japan.

I’ve worked at more than 40 golf tournaments since 1997. The 2025 Danish Golf Championship stands out among all of those because of the course. It was held at Furesø Golfklub, which is notable for being a pesticide-free course.

I wrote about this topic five months ago at PACE Turf. Dollar spot: reduced disease severity with reduced fungicides In that update, I shared some key points from Chou et al.

I’ve had the pleasure of studying and discussing turfgrass management and turfgrass science with professionals in some pretty salubrious places. In fact, I make a point of doing so, and last month Dr.

T-Jay Creamer is the golf course superintendent at Olympic View GC in Victoria, British Columbia. The greens there are a mix of bentgrass and Poa annua, and as of May 2024 it’s considerably more Poa than bent.

When a creeping bentgrass green is sixteen years old, do you expect to find some Poa annua in it? I do. When I see greens that age without noticing any Poa plants, I pay attention.

プレゼンテーション資料は上記の PDF リンクから入手してください。 OM246 の詳細については、このプレゼンテーションを参照してください。 WinterTurf 日本語のATCアップデートのメーリングリストに参加を申し込む. 申し込む. Download the slides from this presentation at the PDF link above. See more about OM246 testing, including sampling instructions and a sample report, at the OM246 project page.

Frank Rossi and Chris Tritabaugh had a short conversation about the fascinating Park Grass experiment, and about a lot more than that—fertilizer, bentgrass, dogma, salaries, budgets, detail work, GPS sprayers, and so on.

Doug Soldat has been posting these spectacular photos every year. See the “related posts” section at the bottom for more of these from past years. When he shared this one, he wrote “stop me if you’ve heard this one before.

This is a difficult problem—pitch mark scars—and the only long term solution I know of is firmer surfaces. I was reminded of that this week when I saw balls bouncing on the greens at a tournament in Japan (see videos below).