Taught my last class today at SLU Alnarp and after a brief lecture we headed out to the Tournament Course at Vasatorps GK outside of Helsingborg, Sweden. This Arthur Hills/Steve Forest designed faux-links course opened in 2008 with fine fescue fairways and creeping bentgrass greens. The golf course superintendent Bengt Börjesson and his excellent crew [...]
May 2009
Monthly Archive
May 28, 2009
Vasatorp Tournament Course
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May 27, 2009
Teaching another class for the Swedish Agricultural University today a lab at Kvarnby GK outside of Malmo, Sweden. This is a typical Swedish golf club with 1100 golfing members each paying 4600 swedish kronar ($600 US) per year. It was built in an abandon Limestone quarry in 1988, water pH 8.2, soil pH about 8.0. [...]
May 26, 2009
Here is the new clubhouse at the about to open PGA National Golf Club of Sweden outside Malmo in the south of Sweden. Met with the Supt. and some of the interns to discuss fine fescuce playing surfaces and especially putting greens. A fascintating mix of modern golf course construction techniques with an “old world” [...]
May 19, 2009
This week: Keep annual bluegrass healthy. PGRs on sports turf. Mow high to reduce crabgrass Yellow patch or brown ring patch? Week 8 – ShortCUTT for May 18, 2009 Click link to listen or download file to your mp3 player. To receive the weekly ShortCUTT newsletter, join NYSTA or subscribe directly. Recommended web resources: ForeCast: [...]
May 14, 2009
This week: Treat yellow patch? Mow less w/slow-growing fescues. Climate change fuels dollar spot. Week 7 – ShortCUTT for May 11, 2009 Click link to listen or download file to your mp3 player. To receive the weekly ShortCUTT newsletter, join NYSTA or subscribe directly. Recommended web resources: Abstract at TGIF: Long-term, trends in meteorological conditions [...]
May 5, 2009
This week: Dealing with dandelions, disease. Vinegar herbicide. The skinny on the ’1/3 rule’. Week 6 – ShortCUTT for May 4, 2009 Click link to listen or download file to your mp3 player. To receive the weekly ShortCUTT newsletter, join NYSTA or subscribe directly. Web resources Frank mentioned in the podcast: ForeCast: Weather for the [...]
