GCM

• Hydraulic oil spills on putting greens: Facts and myths

• What the Tech? I think I have a shade problem

• Scalping timing for tall fescue control with glyphosate

• European Union’s view of biostimulants: What may be coming our way

• Shallow soil compaction following fraze mowing (Cutting Edge)

• Use moisture meters for greater efficiency and healthier turf

• On the clock (about timing of aerification)

• Effects of nitrogen rate and simulated golf cart traffic on Cody buffalograss roughs

• Impacts of surfactants on soil and plant health

• Establishment of low-maintenance, naturalized grasses and forbs for turf replacement in California and Arizona

• Effects of soil temperature on wetting agent efficacy

• Long-term dynamics and management requirements of sand-capped fairways (Cutting Edge)

• Measuring putting green firmness (Cutting edge)

• Mowing height and frequency affect green speed and plant health (Cutting edge)

• Techniques for turfgrass re-establishment following winterkill

• Improving seedhead suppression of annual bluegrass, Part 2

• Effects of potassium on a bentgrass green (Cutting edge)

• Reducing Poa annua in zoysia fairways (Cutting edge)

• Do some wetting agents remove organic coatings from water-repellent sand particles?

• Advice for superintendents facing greens renovation

• Poa annua control: A perpetually moving target

• DLI requirement of a creeping bentgrass green affected by shade intensity and timing (Cutting edge)

• Does core recycling affect putting green performance? (Cutting edge)

• 2018 revisions to the USGA method for putting green construction

• Research update o off-type grasses in ultradwarf bermudagrass putting greens

• The art and science of syringing for turfgrass canopy cooling

• Organic and inorganic compounds in crumb rubber mulch (Cutting edge)

• Less art, more science (greens agronomic program, IPM)

• Effects of creeping bentgrass seeding rates and traffic on putting green establishment

• Using PGRs in golf course roughs

• Use data to optimize golf course management

• Let there be light!

• Light the way to healthy putting greens.

• Why photosynthesis is important for golfers

• Is solid-tine aeration right for your greens?

• To seed or not to seed, that is the question

• Minimum daily light integrals: Do cultivars, cutting heights, and PGRs matter? 

• Recovery tips after winter damage and a short growing season

• How to quickly repair small areas of putting green damage

• Don’t sleep on tees

• Deep-tine aeration (warm season)

• Slow but steady progress (cool-season recovery from winter injury)

• The ins and outs of zoysiagrass fairway management

• Sun deficiency

• Researchers compare removing aeration cores with core recycling

• A little sand goes a long way

• Unlock the value of growth potential graphs

• A novel method for accurately measuring topdressing rates

• Practice tees that please

• Highlights from the 2019 USGA winter management workshop

• Fraise mowing enhances bermudagrass control

• Three simple methods for leveling tees

• Regrassing fairways in northern California

GCM

• Testing for sugarcane mosaic virus in St. Augustinegrass

• Fungicide fate following various mowing and irrigation treatments

• Dollar spot control using urea and iron sulfate

• Fungicide alternatives for management of Microdochium patch

• Effects of organic amendments on dollar spot in bentgrass fairways

• Site-specific management of spring dead spot

• Cultivation reduces infestation of silvery-thread moss in a creeping bentgrass green

• Resistance to new broad-spectrum fungicides SDHI

• Plant uptake and optimal timing of snow mold fungicides

• Irrigation water as a source of Pythium inoculum

• Nitrogen fertilization affects dollar spot severity in bentgrass

• Dog’s footprint? We call it “ink spot” in these parts.

• Pythium patch of annual bluegrass

• A new genus: Identifying and naming the fungi that cause dollar spot on turf

• Fraze mowing vs. spring dead spot on bermudagrass

• Prediction model advisees fungicide applications for dollar spot collar control

• Cream leaf blight of ultradwarf bermudagrass

• Effect of phosphite rate and source on cyanobacteria colonization of putting green turf

• Update on BMPs for anthracnose on annual bluegrass turf

• Optimizing timing of snow mold fungicides

• Effect of oriental mustard seed meal for control of dollar spot on creeping bentgrass

• Iron sulfate and urea affect Microdochium patch on an annual bluegrass putting green

• Responses of creeping bentgrass to an organic byproduct containing tryptophan

• Take-all root rot on the increase in the Carolinas

• Should thatch be the target of microbial studies in turfgrass?

• Antimicrobial options for reducing bacterial etiolation on putting greens

• Just dew it (Effect of dew removal on efficacy of fungicides for dollar spot)

• Influence of spray rate volume and surfactants on large patch control

• Effects of spray nozzle and fungicide mode of action on control of Microdochium patch on an annual bluegrass putting green in western Oregon

• Chlorothalonil + ferrous sulfate = dollar spot suppression

• Dollar spot on fairways

• The infection process and activation of disease resistance in turfgrasses

• Redox potential and black layer

• Winning the war with black layer, one battle at a time

• Effects of nitrogen source, sulfur, and fall fungicide applications on spring dead spot of bermudagrass

• Thatch collapse in golf course turf

• First report of brown ring patch caused by Waitea circinate on perennial ryegrass in Oklahoma

• First report of Xanthomonas translucens causing wilt disease on perennial ryegrass in the United States

• Ergot in perennial ryegrass seed fields in eastern Oregon

• First report of Hemicycliophora wyei on bentgrass in Texas

USGA Green Section

• Diversity in dollar spot in the South

• The difficult thing about mini-ring

• Don’t sing the pink snow mold blues

• Dollar spot control (includes modeling)

GCM

• What lies beneath: The microbes at play under cool-season golf courses

• Fertilization and irrigation strategies reduce greenhouse gas emissions and conserve water

• “Fake news” and the superintendent” (science communication skills)

• Put your ponds on steroids

• DLI requirement of a creeping bentgrass green affected by shade intensity and timing

• Golf facilities: An underutilized resource

• Energy use and environmental practices on U.S. golf courses

• Aesthetics and playability in secondary roughs

• Regional trends in land use and environmental practices on U.S. golf courses, Part 2

• Stream of conscience

• National trends in land use and environmental practices on U.S. golf courses, Part 1

• Coast-to-coast sustainability

• An era of environmental progress

• Zero Tolerance

• Natural selections

• Garden on the golf course

• Prescribed fire: Another tool for your toolbox

• Welcome, wildlife

• A recertification story

• Making a way for monarchs

• Playing it safe

USGA Green Section

• Fore the Golfer: Wildlife on golf courses

• Light the way to healthy putting greens

• Why photosynthesis is important for golfers

• The value of native areas

• Establishing monarch butterfly habitat on golf courses

• Monarchs in the rough

GCM

• Solubility of soil-applied iron

• Fertilization and irrigation strategies reduce greenhouse gas emissions and conserve water

• N source and water quality affect foliar and root N uptake

• Adopting seasonal fertilizer blackout periods

• How much do golf courses contribute to Golf of Mexico hypoxia?

• Effect of composts and organic and standard fertilizers on turf

• Spatial variability of soil characteristics warrant site-specific fertility

• Study quantifies nutrient use and management on U.S. golf courses.

• Nitrogen fertilization of bermudagrass affects carbon dioxide emissions

GCM

• Effects of irrigation chemistry on Tifway bermudagrass performance and nitrogen uptake

• Velvet vs. creeping: Shining some light on managing bentgrasses in shade

• Transitioning the transition zone

• Evaluating shade tolerance among fine fescue species

• What are we going to do about Poa?

• Establishing creeping bentgrass in a putting green

• Improving seedhead suppression of annual bluegrass

• Effects of potassium on a bentgrass green

• Reducing Poa annua in zoysia fairways

• Advice for superintendents facing greens renovation

• Bermudagrass: Know your hybrids

• Poa annua control: A perpetually moving target

• Effects of creeping bentgrass seeding rates and traffic on putting green establishment

• Using PGRs in golf course roughs

• Controlling Poa annua in creeping bentgrass fairways

• Improving seedhead suppression of annual bluegrass

• Developing fine-textured seeded and vegetatively propagated zoysiagrasses

• Pronamide-resistant Poa annua in Georgia

• Advances in warm-season grasses

• Creeping bentgrass stress tolerance

• Winter foot traffic on a Poa annua green

• Evaluating zoysia-tall fescue mixtures in the transition zone

• Bermudagrass control: Basamid treatment regimens to replace methyl bromide

• The impact of wetting agent use on turfgrass putting surfaces (cool season)

• Coating warm-season turfgrass seed to improve establishment

• Timing of amicarbazone for Poa annua control

• Freezing tolerance of creeping bentgrass cultivars

• Response of fine fescue fairway mixtures under drought conditions

• Performance of fine fescues under two forms of traffic

• Protecting creeping bentgrass from winter desiccation

• Managing ice stress of annual bluegrass

• Effects of deficit irrigation and traffic on Tifway fairways

• Divot recovery in fairway buffalograss

• Maintaining soil physical properties for ultradwarf greens

• Summer deficit irrigation of bermudagrass

• This grass IS always greener (poverty oatgrass, Danthonia spicate)

• A Poa annua/creeping bentgrass grudge match

• Overseeding TifEagle greens reduces shoot

• Zinc for Poa annua control in hybrid bermudagrass

• GDD models of PGR efficacy on bentgrass greens

USGA Green Section

• Can certain management practices rescue bentgrass from overregulation?

• Chemical priming to improve annual bluegrass response to ice stress

• This is not your parents’ grass

• Are you up to speed with your seed?

• The time to seed is now

• Bahiagrass: A new rough turfgrass arrives in the Southeast

• The spring seed (Poa annua)

• Sometimes Poa annua is the answer

• Pulverize your way to hybrid bermudagrass fairways

• Breeding for wintergreen turf saves water

GCM

• Investigating the impacts of thatch and microbial degradation on white grub control with imidacloprid

• Cross-resistance to insecticides among pyrethroid-resistant annual bluegrass weevil populations

• Level of pyrethroid resistance affects efficacy of different insecticide classes on annual bluegrass weevil

• Searching for management solutions for the bermudagrass mite

• Management of natural areas and annual bluegrass weevil overwintering

• Neonicotinoids vs. white grubs

• These pearls won’t bring you riches: Ground pearls in turf

• Midwestern billbugs: seasonal biology and DNA-based life-stage association

• Billbug species composition and life cycles on Missouri zoysiagrass fairways

• The windshield or the bug

• Tinder weevil

• Scouting report

• Survey of annual bluegrass weevil management

• Invasion of green stinkworms: managing Amynthas hupeiensis on putting greens

• Optimal management programs for annual bluegrass weevil populations with different insecticide resistance levels

• First report of carrot beetle damage to golf course turf

• Managing billbugs in the intermountain west

• Improving a predictive model for billbug management

• ABW invades North Carolina

• Billbug species composition and life cycles in Missouri

• Invasive crane fly finds a home in Utah turf

• Genetic detective work on invasive ants

USGA Green Section

• Hot dogs and fire ants

• Tick tips

GCM

• Less art, more science

• Scouting report (use the ABCs of IPM to clear up the mysteries behind damage to your turf and ornamentals)

• Developing golf course best management practices: 50 states by 2020

• Survey documents innovation in pest management practices

• Sharpening your axe

USGA Green Section

• The pursuit of (affordable) perfection

• A successful golf course enhancement project

• Pest management on golf courses

GCM

• Is your tree care consultant PC or PHC?

• Get rid of the trees on your golf course

• Low-maintenance ground covers for Pacific Northwest municipalities

• Triage for trees

USGA Green Section

• Light the way to healthy putting greens

• Why photosynthesis is important for golfers

• Five things every golfer should know about trees on the course

• A successful golf course enhancement project

• Annual tree trimming to improve turfgrass performance

• Tree root turmoil

GCM

• New golf course nematicides

• Population dynamics of sting nematode in putting greens

• Nematode control with ultrasound waves

GCM

• A soil surfactant affects distribution of mefenoxam

• Mosquitoes show high resistance to common insecticide

• Cuphea oil chemical repels pests

• Honeysuckle’s sweet scent not so kind to mosquitoes

USGA Green Section

• Where to begin with unwanted pesticides and fertilizers

• What you need to know about spray applications

GCM

• Using PGRs in golf course roughs

• Controlling Poa annua in creeping bentgrass fairways

USGA Green Section

• Hormonal responses – Are they helping or hurting your greens?

• Can certain management practices rescue bentgrass from overregulation?

GCM

• Hydraulic oil spills on putting greens: Facts and myths

• What the Tech? I think I have a shade problem

• Create a buzz around your property

• Pesticides, turfgrass guttation, and pollinators

• Best management practices to protect and promote pollinators in the turfgrass

• Less mowing equals more bees

• Bee-friendly neonicotinoids?

USGA Green Section

• Bees and golf courses, a natural partnership

GCM

• Tracking success

• DLI requirement of a creeping bentgrass green affected by shade intensity and timing

• Applicator and Primo effects on the persistence of painted water hazard and boundary lines

• In with the new

GCM

• Polyethylene glycol effects on zoysiagrass root growth in a hydroponic system

• Products for alleviating irrigation salinity stress on bermudagrass turf

• Enhancing fairway water conservation through UAV imagery

• Combining trinexapac-ethyl with a soil surfactant to reduce bermudagrass irrigation

• Drought performance and physiological responses of bermudagrass and seashore paspalum

• Relationships of soil analysis, turf quality, and shoot analysis of Kentucky bluegrass under effluent water irrigation on golf courses

• Adaptive landscape irrigation using reclaimed water

• Modeling vertical water distribution and surfactant degradation in sand-based turf systems

• Kentucky bluegrass water requirements under deficit irrigation

• Irrigation requirements of cool-season fairway species

• Surfactant effects on overwatering and underwatering and traffic stress of cool-season greens

• Wetting agents affect soil moisture, water infiltration

• Fertilization and irrigation strategies reduce greenhouse gas emissions and conserve water

• Do some wetting agents remove organic coatings from water-repellent sand particles?

• What lurks at the bottom

• UAVs and water use of warm-season grasses

• Water you doing with all that potassium?

• Water conservation and greenhouse gas emissions on greens

• Kurapia performance in the low desert of Arizona

• Water quality of streams flowing through Virginia golf courses

• Mineral composition of Kentucky bluegrass under effluent water irrigation

• Water conservation and Cooperative Extension turfgrass programs in the Desert Southwest

• Stream of consciousness

• Can groundwater keep your course green?

• How much do golf courses contribute to Gulf of Mexico hypoxia?

• Lawn and native grasses under deficit irrigation

• Irrigation sensors for lawns

• Water swap

• Does irrigating dormant bermudagrass pay off?

• Formula for success, Q&A with Mike Huck

• An irrigation evaluation

• Window of opportunity

• Effects of deficit irrigation and traffic on Tifway fairways

• Summer deficit irrigation of bermudagrass

• Water use and conservation, Part 2: Region by region

GCM

• Suppressing Poa annua seedhead production

• Sequential-application herbicides for bermudagrass control

• Surveying herbicide resistance in annual bluegrass populations on golf course turf

• Screening for natural weed suppression in fine fescues

• Differing genetic traits in silvery-thread moss on greens and in native habitats

• Dazomet for Poa annua control in fairway renovations

• Improving seedhead suppression of annual bluegrass, Part 2

• Reducing Poa annua in zoysia fairways

• Poa annua control: A perpetually moving target

• Improving seedhead suppression of annual bluegrass

• Bermudagrass control: Basamid treatment regimens to replace methyl bromide

• Trineapac-ethyl and auxin affect creeping bentgrass under deficit irrigation

• Prescribed fire: Another tool for your toolbox

• Water hardness and 2,4-D efficacy in weed control experiments

• Annual sedge resistance to halosulfuron and other ALS inhibitors in turfgrass

USGA Green Section

• Applying nonselective herbicides to warm-season bunker edges during fall

• A salt – with intent!

• Nutsedge and kyllinga control strategies

• To pull or not to pull?

• Lookalike carrot top weeds

• Research aims to improve Poa annua control

• Gear up for goosegrass control

• Get it while the getting is good

GCM

• Sand topdressing effects on earthworm activity in turf

• Invasion of the green stinkworms: Managing Amynthas hupeiensis on greens

• Using organic products to reduce earthworm castings

USGA Green Section

• How data delivers better greens

• A year of measuring putting green performance

• Putting greens have speed limits too

• Light the way to healthy putting greens

• Is solid-tine aeration right for your greens?

• Putting green management is more than cutting grass

• Discourage warm-season grass encroachment into cool-season putting greens

• Strategies to control soluble salt buildup in putting greens

• Maintaining smooth putting greens is a team effort

• Zoysiagrass putting green observations

• How to sample for winter injury on putting greens

• Five reasons for putting green renovation

• Bringing a putting green back to life

• Greens irrigation equalizer

• Rootzone compatibility testing for putting green resurfacing, expansion and recontouring

• Is it time to rebuild your greens

• Collars, contamination and simplicity

USGA Green Section

• Winter leaves its mark (Northeast)

• Rough transition (West)

• Dam scary to remove ice (Central)

• The perils of saturated ground (Northeast)

• Proven putting green protection (Central)

• Five reasons for putting green renovation (Southeast)

• Think twice before removing ice (Central)

• Rain, rain, go away (Southeast)

• Greens irrigation equalizer (West)

• What not to do this winter (Northeast)

• Tree root turmoil (Central)

USGA Green Section

• Light the way to healthy putting greens

• Why photosynthesis is important for golfers

• Casting shade