Turf reads

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

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.

Andrew McGuire, an agronomist with Washington State University, wrote that bio-products are “risky because decades of experience and research have found these products fail, or fail inconsistently, or have small benefits that don’t cover their cost.

I was searching the Turfgrass Information File for another topic and came across this article by John Baranski, CGCS, from the proceedings of the 1993 GCSAA Conference and Show in Anaheim.

There are hundreds of posts on the ATC website. Topics range from the 2 green system, aeration, and algae to winter, writing, and zoysia. Some posts get a lot more views than others, and about once a year I update this list of top posts.

I’ve shared the posts from 2023 that got the most views. Then there are these 10 that got the fewest. For reference, the median post in the top 10 got 725 views in 2023.

These posts had the most views in 2023. They are on a nice balance of topics: three about growth rate and N, four about soil OM and surface hardness and topdressing, one about soil pH, and one about soil water content and evapotranspiration.

I’ve enjoyed reading Chris Tritabaugh’s ct_turf newsletter. I recommend subscribing, like I have, to receive each new post by email. Chris is an excellent writer with an apparently unlimited number of good ideas.