grammar of greenkeeping

Many of you will have heard the announcement from Joe Gulotti that The Talking Greenkeeper is on hiatus. A lot of us enjoyed hearing from Joe and his guests almost every week, and we are going to miss it.

A couple of the science and statistics blogs I follow have recently shared AI-generated audio summaries of research papers. The ones I’ve seen were from Google’s NotebookLM. I hadn’t been using this, with most of my LLM (large language model) use over the past couple years being ChatGPT.

I worked at golf tournaments in consecutive weeks, first at Hazeltine National Golf Club during the U.S. Amateur Championship, and then flew to Japan to work at Keya Golf Club for the KBC Augusta Tournament.

Searching for zoysia seedheads beside the Gulf of Thailand. Ninety-seven months ago I wrote a post with the title 99 article titles. That post listed the first 99 articles I’d written in my series for ゴルフ場セミナー (Golf Course Seminar) magazine.

I was a guest on The Tie podcast where I spoke with Walker Simas about “Turf for Dummies.” Well, not quite to that extreme. We still managed to cover a lot of greenkeeping topics, but perhaps I explained the topics in a less technical way.

Joe Gulotti has invited me onto his The Talking Greenkeeper show for a year-end episode for a few years now. This year he called it “The Micah Woods Annual Holiday Special.

is now available, and I see from the Amazon.co.jp website that it can be shipped to any country. The full title is 芝草科学とグリーンキーピング (マイカの時間 The BOOK). In English that is Turfgrass Science and Greenkeeping (Micah no jikan The Book).

It’s called A Short Grammar of Greenkeeping. The book is not completely new material. It is based on the 14 articles I wrote in a series for GCM China, which I realized make a short grammar.