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If you want to do a 3 million dollar irrigation system, you don’t call me
As a follow-up to part 1 of this extraordinary interview with Don Mahaffey on Golf Club Atlas, here’s part 2. Don knows the golf and grass-growing business from the ground up, and he knows what he is talking about.
Micah Woods
Last updated on 2021-04-13
1 min read
On the seductive attractions of metric units
Growing up and first working in the turfgrass industry in the United States, I naturally used US customary units: inches and feet, pounds and ounces, fluid ounces and gallons and so on.
Micah Woods
Last updated on 2021-06-07
3 min read
Hitting all of our goals
This is an extraordinarily good video about grasses, mowing, construction, irrigation, soils, playability, maintenance cost, and more. If you are interested in these topics, watch this interview with Don Mahaffey.
Micah Woods
Last updated on 2021-04-13
1 min read
Summertime syringing to cool bentgrass greens: I wouldn’t do it today
@asianturfgrass many Japanese greenkeepers believe that syringing is effective to keep or lower leaf temperature. How do you think about it? — H.I.GK (@fc3s_13b) May 5, 2013 This question about lowering leaf temperature prompted an extensive discussion about the effectiveness of syringing greens.
Micah Woods
Last updated on 2021-05-07
5 min read
For irrigation, which is better? Deep and infrequent, or light and frequent?
That’s a bit of a trick question, because the answer I give is: neither. What one wants to do is apply the optimum amount of water to the turf, and that can be done by light and frequent irrigation, or it can be done by deep and infrequent irrigation.
Micah Woods
Last updated on 2021-05-10
2 min read
Sand, sodium, and soil structure
Sand rootzones are common the world over for golf course putting greens. Many athletic fields are also built with a sand rootzone, and in Asia, many of the tees, fairways, and even roughs are grown in a sand rootzone.
Micah Woods
Last updated on 2021-08-26
2 min read
Correcting a common misapprehension about seashore paspalum
After a month of research and writing in southern Japan—my 2012 summer sabbatical—I returned to Thailand, got my mail, and in that accumulated stack of papers I found (and promptly read) the July 2012 issue of Golf Course Architecture.
Micah Woods
2012-09-03
4 min read
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