Research

Managing and controlling fairy rings

June 24, 2014 By
Mike Fidanza, Ph.D., is a turfgrass scientist at the Berks Campus of Penn State University, where he teaches turfgrass management. Fidanza has many years of research and practical experience managing fairy rings. Fidanza can be reached at maf100@psu.edu or on ...

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Plant Health Part 2 of 3: Managing Extreme Weather

June 23, 2014 By
To help superintendents better manage extreme variations in weather conditions and temperatures, BASF has released its most recent lineup of fungicides — Lexicon Intrinsic and Xzemplar. Let’s face it. Golf is an unpredictable game. One moment you may be sinking ...

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Plant Health Part 2 of 3 Intro: Fun in the heat of summer

June 23, 2014 By
Hot summer days and warm summer nights will be a welcome relief after the miserable, long winter that affected most of the country. Greens and fairways are still recovering from the unrelenting snow, ice, cold and rain, even in late ...

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Soil analysis before, 10 years after effluent irrigation

June 23, 2014 By
By Yaling Qian To ensure sustainable and affordable water supplies, more and more golf courses are using effluent water for irrigation. It is well documented that some effluent water sources have marginal quality with relatively high levels of nutrients and ...

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Winterkill in the crosshairs: Preparing greens for winter

June 23, 2014 By
By Sam Bauer, Brian Horgan, Ph.D. and Lindsey Hoffman, Ph.D. Editor’s note: This is the first of two articles by the authors on turf survival during winter. The 2013-2014 winter has gone down in the record books as one of ...

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Pursuing Poa annua-free cool-season fairways

June 23, 2014 By
All golf courses, regardless of budget, struggle to minimize Poa annua in fairways. Thinning or complete death of Poa annua in summer or winter, plus additional damage to the desired species inevitably leads to reseeding the desired turf. However, Poa ...

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