Columns

The unpredictability of predicting the weather

February 3, 2020 By Matt Neff

According to the great Bob Dylan, “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” Hot take alert — Bob was not a superintendent and was almost certainly not talking about actual weather, but A), I’m not ...

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One-upping about winter desiccation

January 9, 2020 By Karl Danneberger, Ph.D.

The “Four Yorkshiremen” is a classic comedy sketch associated with British comedy troupe Monty Python. It consists of four men at a resort discussing what it was like growing up poor. In the sketch, each one tries to one-up the ...

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Kyllinga species a challenge to control

January 9, 2020 By Clark Throssell, Ph.D.

Clark Throssell, Ph.D., discusses why kyllinga species are a challenge to control with Scott McElroy, Ph.D., a turfgrass weed scientist at Auburn University. He conducts numerous weed control experiments every year, targeting many weeds species, including kyllinga species. You may ...

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Peak maintenance in golf course management

January 9, 2020 By Alan FitzGerald

Looking back over the last 150 years, it’s amazing to see how far humanity has come since the start of the Industrial Revolution, from transportation innovations of the 20th century that shrunk the planet, to space travel and the computer ...

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The best sights of 2019

January 9, 2020 By Seth Jones

It only took one month into 2020, and I went ahead and used the “2020 vision” pun on the cover. If I’m not going to be original, at least I’ll be first out of the gate, I suppose. I’m happy ...

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One superintendent too many: A husband and wife compete for the same job

January 9, 2020 By Tyler Gunter

The following was written and submitted by Liza Chmielewski. Jeremy and I met at Penn State in the fall of 2001. We were both enrolled in the two-year golf course turfgrass management certificate program with goals of becoming golf course ...

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