Research

The 2015 Golfdom Report

January 22, 2015 By Seth Jones and Grant Gannon

From big expectations for the new year to disappointment with the current assistant superintendent pool, here’s how readers see the state of the industry. This is the year, it seems. The year the economy starts to really bounce back, the year golf’s ...

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SNAGing more golfers

January 22, 2015 By Ira Tiffany

How SNAG Golf and SNAG Futbol plan to get more kids in the game. One of my favorite old sayings is, “Be careful what you wish for.” It conjures up all sorts of ideas when applied to golf. We all ...

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Quantifying light needs for bermudagrass green establishment

January 22, 2015 By Joelle Harms

In the past decade throughout the Southeast and transition zone, golf courses have been converting their greens to new ultradwarf bermudagrass cultivars. Whether the conversion is from creeping bentgrass or is replacing an older bermudagrass cultivar, a major constraint will ...

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Mistakes Happen: Part Dew

January 22, 2015 By Matt Cavanaugh

In the October Golfdom I wrote about several product application mistakes that superintendents potentially can make. These mistakes included an overdose of plant growth regulators, products used to correct said overdose, high rates of foliar fertilizer, and the dreaded issues ...

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The turf routine: What defines healthy turf?

January 22, 2015 By Karl Danneberger, Ph.D.

I was at the British Turf Management Exhibition (BTME) in Harrogate, England, a year or so ago when I listened to a speaker talk about the golf swing. He identified three distinct aspects of hitting a golf shot — the ...

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Getting the most from a Primo application

January 22, 2015 By Clark Throssell, Ph.D.

Dean Mosdell, Ph.D., is a technical manager in the Western U.S. for Syngenta. He has more than 25 years of golf course research experience with plant growth regulators and makes numerous golf course visits every year on behalf of Syngenta ...

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