Review another turf blog: Veridescent, Turf Disease and Golf Course Business

I have been looking for a good turf blog to comment and review and I have found not one, not two, but three that I think are not only good, but also very useful information for our future profession. I like Veridescent, Turf Diseases and Golf Course Business. I am amazed at how much information you can get out of these three sites and all for free.

Veridescent is a turf blog that focuses mostly in Asia. The blog is easy to read, well organized, with many illustrations and a good source of useful information particularly in seminars, cultural practices and diseases. Also it looks like this blog is updated constantly, I would say about every 10 days, sometimes even more often. It has a lot of links to other interesting sites. Particularly, it has a lot of information on warm-season grasses since Asia is predominately warm and humid.

Turf Diseases is another blog that gives a lot of useful information, data and links to other sites that are related with our industry. Also the main topic, diseases, along with soils and greens committees, is one of the most challenging issues that a superintendent has to deal with. So having such useful and helpful information at the tip of your fingers is just great!

Another blog that I plan to follow from now on is Golf Course Business. Maybe it is just the title, but as I have always said, I believe that the future will bring more superintendents that also are able to run the business side of the course. Golf course maintenance and water management are the most expensive cost of a golf course. So why couldn’t the person in charge of budgeting the main cost, be able to run the whole operation? From my experience I have realized that running a golf course is relatively easy, but running a golf course well is not that easy. Golf courses, as any other business, are hard to make profitable, but can be possible if the main person in charge knows how well the business is going. He or she will be able to understand why budgets have to be reduced or in the contrary, knowing the expected green fee forecast could increase the level of maintenance to create a positive impact for future guests and/or members.

I would like to thank the authors of these blogs and others that are available, because it will keep all of us updated and on top of our game. Thank you.