Observe Other Practices

Observing and understanding practices used by other courses can be beneficial to improving your practices. This is where communication is important, either with other superintendents or turf managers in your area, having good connections with them is key.

A helpful resource I have found is a blog from Pinehurst golf club in Colorado. They keep their blog up to date and post articles I have found to be useful. Ontario golf courses can relate to their practices because it is roughly the same climate, however they may experience winter conditions slightly more extreme than ours. It appears as though they have access to all the newest equipment which allows you to see what works well and what doesn't.

Link:  http://pinehurstcc.blogspot.ca


Photo of the week:
A cutworm found on my green the other day. I haven't had to much of an issue with them so far, but I can tell their numbers are increasing. Having a clay loam based green makes it easy to spot their holes and I am usually able to flood them out.