Turf reads

My books about greenkeeping, turfgrass science, clipping volume, and MLSN.

I was pleasantly surprised a few months ago when I returned home from a long trip, had some Greenkeeper International magazines waiting for me, and flipping through them found discussion of clipping volume and the turf GvX.

I wrote “Soil Testing and MLSN: smarter goals, better results” for GreenMaster magazine. Read the article in the CGSA’s GreenMaster—Soil Testing and MLSN Here are a couple quotes from the article.

I’ve shared the posts from 2025 that got the most views, and Joe Gulotti and I talked about these in a holiday extravaganza. Then there are these 10 that got the fewest.

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.

This article about MLSN was published in Greenkeeper International in 2018. I suppose it’s one many of you have never seen. My title for this was “Making Sense of Turf Nutrition with MLSN”, although when published it was shortened simply to “Turf Nutrition.

There have been some new developments with MLSN, thanks to John Emerson, Jr.. In the USGA Green Section Record, he published Indexing the Soil Nutrient Status of Turfgrass Systems to Develop Regional MLSN Guidelines: A Delaware Case Study.

I’ve shared the posts from 2024 that got the most views. Then there are these 10 that got the fewest. For reference, the median post in the top 10 got 754 views in 2024.

These posts had the most views in 2024. They are on a nice balance of topics: temperature, sand topdressing, bentgrass and Poa annua and zoysiagrass and bermudagrass, playability, and the TurfGvX.

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.