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

Meteorological summer is over and it has definitely cooled off in the Chicago area -- just barely dipped under 50 last night in many areas. ...

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

Compared to last year, it looks like we will have only limited areas of winterkill this spring.  In 2010, a long period of snow cover and a ...

Since the snow has mostly melted, we have been assessing the health of our turf coming out of winter.  Last year, I wrote about the factors ...

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...