Our Canongate superintendents have been busy this week taking advantage of the winter to take in some very educational seminars. The UGA Griffin campus hosted a free learning session on Wed, 1/23,
for all turf managers in Georgia. There were some very good speakers that spoke on a lot of the testing they have been performing on their test grasses. On Monday, 1/21, all Canongate superintendents were treated to a very good day. We had the opportunity to spend the entire day learning from three of the most knowledgable minds in southeastern turf grass management. Dr. Bruce Martin and Dr. Bert McCarty came down from Clemson University and Dr. Jeff Higgins came over from Harrell's Fertilizer. These gentlemen answered all questions we had and informed us of new chemicals that are being released soon. They also told us about some of the testing they have been doing with fungicides, herbicides, and also pigments and paints.
We all learned a great deal from these two days of classes and seminars that we will be able to apply at our courses this year. Hopefully this will help us have the best greens all summer.
Played the course 3 times this week. The greens are really quick. Like old times and I like it. Any news you can share on the possibility/probability of changing this out this summer?
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear you had some good rounds. As far as we know right now, we are not converting greens this summer. We are, however, doing our application of Curfew again this year to help fight our nematode problem. We feel this really helped out last year and think it will help even more this year.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comment and I hope you continue to enjoy the course.