bermudagrass

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.

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.

There were 60 golfers on the course, along with caddies, when the tsunami wave slammed into the Tublamu Navy Golf Course on December 26, 2004.1 This GOLF Magazine article has some stories of what happened at the golf course that day, and how the course was being rebuilt.

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I’ve not been an advocate for zoysiagrass (korai) greens when bermudagrass greens are a viable option. The reason for this is ball roll. With the same maintenance, bermudagrass greens have a noticeably smoother and faster ball roll.

Photos All the conference photos, taken by Boy Yothin, are available in this Google Drive folder. Slides You can download the slides here. Slides from Micah Woods Strategies to minimize disease with reduced fungicide use, 1.

I got to see a lot of beautiful and interesting turfgrass around the world in 2022. I looked through my photos from the year and chose these as my favorites.

Here’s an interesting new article by Katuwal et al.: Multilocational screening identifies new drought-tolerant, warm-season turfgrasses. This article describes the results for four species: bermudagrass, St. Augustinegrass, seashore paspalum, and zoysiagrass.

Korai (Zoysia) putting greens have a distinctive roll because of the stiff leaf blades. One consequence of this is a slower green speed than bermudagrass when given the same maintenance.

I made my first trip to Gainesville and the University of Florida last week when I visited the turfgrass field laboratory at Citra, then gave a seminar (recorded screencast here) on campus about my research.