Beginning June 9th and running through June 22nd, the Rounds 4 Research public golf auction is well underway!
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British Columbia, the lone Canadian province participating in this GCSAA initiative, has 14 golf courses donating rounds along with properties from 35 different states, Switzerland and Mexico.
Clint Mattox, Alex Kowalewski and Brian McDonald
Department of Horticulture, Oregon State University
Microdochium nivale is the most important turfgrass disease in the Pacific Northwest (Vargas, 1994). Even though this disease can be observed year round, it is particularly devastating in the winter months. During this time of year, the turf is no longer actively growing, often leaving scars until the warmer spring temperatures return with the start of a new golf season. In order to combat this disease, golf course superintendents are required to make applications of fungicides, sometimes monthly from late fall to early spring.
Read more: Alternative Control Methods of Microdochium Patch - Interim Research Update
William J. Johnston and Charles T. Golob
Dept. of Crop and Soil Sciences
Washington State University
Creeping bentgrass (Agrostis stolonifera L.) golf greens infested with annual bluegrass (Poa annua L.) can be hard to manage, unattractive, and have reduced playability. Methiozolin (‘PoaCure’) is a relatively new isoxazoline herbicide that has shown selective P. annua control in golf greens.
Read more: Multi-Year Fall Applied Methiozolin (‘PoaCure’) For Poa Annua Control On Golf Greens
By Jerry Rousseau
Immediately after Alec Kowalewski’s turf disease talk at the 2013 NTA conference in Tri-Cities, Washington, I contacted Peter Sorokovsky, WCTA Research Committee Chair to ask about his successes battling Microdochium nivale, aka pink snow mold or Fusarium patch, at Riverway and Burnaby Mountain Golf Courses.
Read more: Cross-Border Meeting Discusses #1 BC Turf Disease
By Jim Ross, Prairie Turfgrass Research Centre
Research at a number of universities in the United States on a new product for the reduction of annual bluegrass (Poa annua) in creeping bentgrass is causing quite a bit of excitement for golf course Superintendents.