GREENKEEPER BLOG
Invest in Yourself and Staff with GreenKeeper University
Advance your turf management knowledge at your pace with GreenKeeper University. Our team of renowned turfgrass professors, researchers and practitioners have created 18 different online courses to help advance the knowledge of turfgrass managers. Students can enroll...
Seeing Turf Differently: Exploring the GreenKeeper RECON Turf Vision Sensor
Turfgrass managers possess an exceptionally keen eye for detecting turf stress. That can be both a blessing and a curse in late summer. I remember dreading the morning drive to Ager Golf Course after being surprised by disease or drought stress the day before. Even...
Silverado is Championship Ready with GreenKeeper
Silverado Golf Resort is once again in the spotlight as host of the PGA Tour’s ProCore Championship, and this year the course also welcomed the U.S. Ryder Cup team during tournament week. Behind the scenes, Director of Agronomy David Walter and his staff rely on the...
Driving Progress: How the GreenKeeper Team is Advancing Turf Management
Just as turf managers worked tirelessly through another challenging summer, our team at GreenKeeper has also been busy. With the arrival of meteorological fall, it’s a perfect time to reflect on the progress we’ve made together—on the course, on the research plots,...
“Models are Wrong,” Yet Some are Incredibly Useful for Turf Management
All models are wrong, but some are useful. — British Statistician George E. P. BoxThis classic quote largely credited to statistician George Box perfectly sums up the challenge of decision-making in turfgrass management. It captures every superintendent’s daily...
Stop Guessing. Confidently Schedule Irrigation
Each day, turf managers face the critical task of scheduling irrigation to prevent wilt tomorrow—without over-watering tonight. But this decision depends on estimating how much soil moisture will be lost today, how much irrigation will replenish it, and how tomorrow’s...