The golf course superintendent and staff work diligently to provide the best playing conditions possible; however, proper course management today also requires conserving natural resources and ...

For the past 18 years, Indian River State College has been training golf course maintenance and operations professionals. Today, its sports turf management program can hardly keep up with demand from ...

There are many myths and “wives tales” that are prevalent in the turfgrass industry, and I would like to take this opportunity to debunk a couple of them so that turfgrass managers can avoid wasted ...

Dr. James Beard’s Turfgrass Encyclopedia defines thatch “as an intermingled organic layer of dead and living shoots, stems, and roots of grasses that develops between the turf canopy of green ...

Effective irrigation is central to sustainable turfgrass management, balancing aesthetic quality, playing surface characteristics and water conservation. Traditional approaches have relied on fixed ...

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As temperatures in the Philadelphia area have risen to steadily above freezing, the turf course renovations at Parx Racing have begun. "We want to thank the horsemen and women for their collaboration ...

First Drexel, tomorrow Philadelphia, eventually — the world. Drexel University has moved to an organic turf management model across all of the University City Campus and will eliminate synthetic ...

The discontinuation applies only to the on-campus Associate of Applied Science and Certificate programs.

On the football field, teamwork drives the game, but behind the scenes, another team is working to keep players safe. At the University of Georgia's Turfgrass Research and Education Center, scientists ...