High maintenance turf often requires a high disturbance and high stress environment. Grime's CSR theory says there are "no viable strategies" for plants in such an environment. I discuss the implications of this.

Blog post discussed is https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/competition-stress-disturbance/

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T-Jay Creamer is the golf course superintendent at Olympic View Golf Club on Vancouver Island. He's seen a steady decrease in OM2 in response to his N and sand rates, along with substantially more consistent OM2 values green to green. We discussed the results and what he does to accomplish this.

• The blog post we discussed is https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/gvx-and-sand/
• The OM246 calculator Shiny app is https://asianturfgrass.shinyapps.io/om246/
• Exact sand topdressing rates https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/sand-topdressing-measurement-by-exact-methods/
• Three ways to measure sand https://youtu.be/6LurONpyg5M
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Jason Haines is the Links Superintendent at Cabot Cape Breton. We had a wide ranging conversation about blog posts from 2025, a new #MLSN article, controlling snow mold, things that look easy but aren't easy, and more.

• The blog post we discussed is https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/ten-posts-no-one-read-in-2025/
• The spring 2026 article in GreenMaster about MLSN: https://online.flipbuilder.com/gbcmagazine/rpae/#p=16
• Video with Jason that shows the control of snow mold on greens in BC with minimal pesticides: https://youtu.be/L8Q8v5SAzSo?si=Jm8Vinz6fKZImH3P
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Find out more about soil tests with ATC at https://www.asianturfgrass.com/project/soil-tests/

Stewart Naugler is the Director of Agronomy at Loraloma in Texas. We talked about zoysiagrass as a golfing surface, playability, and maintenance requirements.

We started by discussion my "Achieving the warm-season links" article, available here: https://www.asianturfgrass.com/publication/woods-2013-gca/

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Thailand GCSA Sustainable Turfgrass Management in Asia conference: https://stmia.asianturfgrass.com/
Find out more about soil tests with ATC at https://www.asianturfgrass.com/project/soil-tests/

Thatch and mat at the top of turfgrass rootzones are removed from soils prior to testing for soil organic matter. Total organic material (OM246) testing is designed to measure the soil organic matter plus the thatch and mat.

The blog post discussed is https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/organic-matter-and-screens/

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Thailand GCSA Sustainable Turfgrass Management in Asia conference: https://stmia.asianturfgrass.com/
Find out more about soil tests with ATC at https://www.asianturfgrass.com/project/soil-tests/

This gives an overview of the seminars I presented at the GCSAA Conference in 2026 and discusses updated PACE Turf site analyses of photosynthetically active radiation (PAR).

• Seminar handout page: https://www.asianturfgrass.com/seminar/gcsaa-2026/
• Example PAR site analysis in the PACE Turf gallery: https://www.paceturf.org/gallery/detail/site-par-analysis
• Read more about all kinds of turfgrass topics at https://www.asianturfgrass.com/
• Find a suite of decision-making tools at https://www.paceturf.org/
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Thailand GCSA Sustainable Turfgrass Management in Asia conference: https://stmia.asianturfgrass.com/
Find out more about soil tests with ATC at https://www.asianturfgrass.com/project/soil-tests/

Maggie Reiter joined me to discuss her "Finding Turf Twitter" analysis, her analysis of current turf research topics at the ASA-CSSA-SSSA meetings, tropical grasses, and irrigation water requirements.

We discussed:

• https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/a-brand-new-turf-twitter-analysis/
• https://maggiereiter.com/
• https://www.asianturfgrass.com/tag/carpetgrass/
• https://www.paceturf.org/gallery/detail/five-year-map
• https://www.paceturf.org/public/university-research-location-climate-appraisals
• Read more about all kinds of turfgrass topics at https://www.asianturfgrass.com/
• Find a suite of decision-making tools at https://www.paceturf.org/
• Get free ATC newsletters at https://www.asianturfgrass.com/newsletter/

Thailand GCSA Sustainable Turfgrass Management in Asia conference: https://stmia.asianturfgrass.com/
Find out more about soil tests with ATC at https://www.asianturfgrass.com/project/soil-tests/

Scientific writing is not always as clear as this. There's an article I really enjoyed that stated right at the start, in the abstract, that core aeration "might not be worth doing."

• The blog post discussed in this episode is https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/core-aeration-lucid-abstract/
• Full text of the article is available at https://doi.org/10.4141/S05-073
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Thailand GCSA Sustainable Turfgrass Management in Asia conference: https://stmia.asianturfgrass.com/
Find out more about soil tests with ATC at https://www.asianturfgrass.com/project/soil-tests/