disease

Some of the issues related to golf course maintenance and the Japanese golf industry are so interesting, and so challenging, that a few updates about course maintenance here will surely be interesting.

There is a disease that occurs at Hong Kong and in other parts of South and Southeast Asia that is the most unsightly pathogen I have seen.1 I refer to bermudagrass white leaf, and typical symptoms are shown below on a bermudagrass fairway at Hanoi.

The Sritrang Golf Course in southern Thailand’s Trang province is a low maintenance golf course on an army base, using native grasses, including a native manilagrass (Zoysia matrella) on the putting greens.