Thailand

This is one of my favorite posts to put together each year. I looked through my turf photos from 2024 and chose these as favorites. First, however, the flight map, which I like to do to remind myself where I went in the past year, and how far I traveled to get there.

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.

There will be a football pitch workshop in Bangkok on November 18 and 19. If you are interested in sports turf of any sort, I encourage you to attend. Warren Scott, the senior grounds manager of Liverpool FC, will join us to discuss optimum conditions for every aspect of pitch maintenance, with a goal of both player safety and healthy grass.

The Thailand GCSA’s Sustainable Turfgrass Management in Asia conference returned this week. Delegates from all over the world gathered in Pattaya to learn about the latest in turfgrass management—the tools, techniques, and technologies that can be used today.

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 looked through my photos from this year and chose these as favorites. I’ve added a little commentary about each one. Some are educational, some sentimental, some illustrative, some poignant, some just pretty.

If you’ve participated in any of my recent seminars, you may have seen that I’ve included a QR code that takes you to a page where the slides can be downloaded, and where I add some supplemental information or answer questions that came up during the seminar.

One of the interesting differences between zoysia varieties is their seedhead production. On putting greens, the seedheads have a white or silvery appearance. I’m not sure that golf players notice the seedheads, but the seedheads are obvious to turfgrass managers when they look at the sward.

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.

Have you ever seen seedheads on zoysia? Have you ever planted zoysia sod and seen a lot of seeds on some pieces but not on others? I’ve seen this a lot, and I’m not the only one.