Columns

Not just another day at the beach

July 18, 2018 By Seth Jones

Fourteen-year-old Billy Reid was walking down Juno Beach in south Florida when he spotted a $100 bill buried in the sand. Turns out it wasn’t just a $100 bill. It was a wad of $100s, $50s and $20s — $1,500 ...

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Move, or grow where you’re planted

July 18, 2018 By Joe Gulotti

I used to have this pretty beat sentence on my cover letter, boasting about how dope I was as a turf manager. Obviously I mentioned my penchant for delivering championship conditions on the regs and the obligatory meticulous eye for ...

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Internal workings

July 18, 2018 By Karl Danneberger, Ph.D.

The goal of plant health is to provide healthy, vigorous turfgrass by managing resources like radiant energy, moisture, air and nutrients. These resources consumed by the plant are managed primarily through cultural practices with the goal of correcting excessive amounts. ...

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Clark Talks Turf: Nitrogen mineralization

July 18, 2018 By Clark Throssell, Ph.D.

Kevin Frank, Ph.D., is a turfgrass scientist at Michigan State University. He conducts research on soil fertility, turf nutrition and soil physical and chemical processes in addition to publishing and speaking on these topics. You may reach Frank at frankk@msu.edu ...

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Gaughan decides it’s time to be gone

June 6, 2018 By Seth Jones

Since 1975, Chris Gaughan, CGCS, has been working at Eugene (Ore.) Country Club, emerging as a legend of Oregon golf along the way. That 43-year run comes to an end this month, when Gaughan retires and hands the keys to ...

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Matt Neff: Anti-social media

June 6, 2018 By Matt Neff

I am not a huge fan of social media. I have a Twitter account, but aside from a few friends and some miscellaneous sports accounts, my feed is almost entirely turf related. At the risk of sounding like the guy ...

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