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This is one of my favorite posts to put together each year. I looked through my turf photos from 2024 and chose these as favorites. First, however, the flight map, which I like to do to remind myself where I went in the past year, and how far I traveled to get there.

These posts had the most views in 2024. They are on a nice balance of topics: temperature, sand topdressing, bentgrass and Poa annua and zoysiagrass and bermudagrass, playability, and the TurfGvX.

There were 60 golfers on the course, along with caddies, when the tsunami wave slammed into the Tublamu Navy Golf Course on December 26, 2004.1 This GOLF Magazine article has some stories of what happened at the golf course that day, and how the course was being rebuilt.

There’s nothing new about trying to minimize surface disruption while producing enjoyable surfaces. I was reminded of this while rereading the report of the Turf Committee from the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Agronomy:

Joe Gulotti asked me back to The Talking Greenkeeper studio this week for what he calls an “annual holiday extravaganza.” We had a holiday-worthy talk about MLSN, putting green smoothness, my acting skills, travel, and efficient greenkeeping.

I’ve updated the OM246 calculator to v2 with two substantial changes. One is an entirely new tab for unit conversions between different ways of expressing sand rates. I like mm. Others use kg/ha or tons/ha.

I’ve been in a long and intermittent conversation with The Grass Factor team about a guest appearance on their show.1 It’s gone something like they invite me, I can’t due to schedule, then six months later they ask again, and I’ll be off on a long trip again, and I ask them to contact me again some months later.

I talked with Frank Rossi today on the ATC Doublecut. You can watch or listen to the show at the links. We discussed potassium (K) fertilizer, and why there are still recommendations for so much more K than the grass can use.

Grass clippings, fresh, weigh from 300 to 350 g per liter in a clipping volume bucket. Sand, dry, weighs about 1.6 kg per liter in a clipping volume bucket.

The PACE Turf temperature-based growth potential, or GP, is a utility function that takes the input of average air temperature, and gives an output of GP on a scale of 0 to 1, or 0 to 100%.