Above is a look at roughstalk bluegrass ( Poa trivialis ) which makes up a large portion of our fairways and tees at Sugar Creek.  It ...

The week of July 4th, 2012, is not one we are going to forget any time soon.  It started with 1.5 inches of rain and a violent wind storm o...

Many area courses are restricting cart traffic during extreme heat.  A few photos from this morning show why.  On days of extreme heat, gra...

One of the interesting parts of working in the golf world is dealing with weather.  It is important to understand weather variations over ti...

A lot of golf course fairways have been hurting since it started raining this summer.  I decided to go straight to the source and...

Over the winter, I had the opportunity to gather and analyze some climate data from the past decade.  One chart in particular I thought inte...

So far, 2010 has been very different than 2009 or 2008 for turf managers.  2010 soil tempuratures have been on average 10 degrees higher th...