Columns

Thatch collapse disease

January 22, 2014 By Clark Throssell, Ph.D.

John Kaminski, Ph.D., is an associate professor of turfgrass science at Penn State University. Thatch collapse is one of many turfgrass diseases he and his students study. Kaminski can be reached at kaminski@psu.edu. Q: Talk a little bit about the fungal ...

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Bacterial etiolation and decline of creeping bentgrass greens

December 11, 2013 By Clark Throssell, Ph.D.

Paul Giordano is a Ph.D. candidate in turfgrass pathology at Michigan State University and the topic of his dissertation research is bacterial etiolation and decline of creeping bentgrass greens. Paul can be reached at giorda13@msu.edu. Q:What is the correct name ...

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What happens to those green spaces?

December 11, 2013 By Karl Danneberger, Ph.D.

I grew up in one of those subdivisions that were built in the 1950s as part of the middle class movement to suburbia. We lived on a dead-end street that abutted what was initially a large farm field that rapidly developed ...

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The year-ender

December 11, 2013 By Matt Neff

As 2013 comes to a close, I’ve recently found myself reflecting on the year on both a personal and professional level. How about that for a completely stereotypical opening to a December column? They probably teach that on the first ...

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Putting greens and politics

December 11, 2013 By Joel Jackson

Thanks to some of the recent legislation and regulation filtering down from Washington to city councils, Big Brother is endorsing and/or passing laws that will affect what products can be used on golf courses, and when and where others can ...

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May be time for a change

December 11, 2013 By Mark Woodward

I was at a golf conference a few weeks ago and I heard something that I never really had put a lot of thought into. But once I heard it, it made perfect sense. One of the speakers reminded the audience ...

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