Golf turf playability with Carl Schimenti: green speed, firmness, smoothness and trueness of roll

Carl is a competitive golfer and a turfgrass researcher. We had a long conversation about the topic of playability of surfaces. What is it, how is it measured, can it be measured, and how might it be managed.

Show Notes

• Ball bounce clip from Dan Dinelli: https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxbIlZVkgZyANVSbtpaKnYkPk4xEeDGCyi
• Playability-tagged posts on the ATC website: https://www.asianturfgrass.com/tag/playability/
• Chris Tritabaugh's blog: https://ct-turf.medium.com/the-data-says-cc7defa451f0
• Office Hours with Andrew McDaniel sharing no change in OM despite only 1 sand topdressing event in a year: https://youtu.be/QxNAOcxzsYM
• 8 minute video showing tournament conditions with only one sand topdressing in a year, plus an absurd amount of rain leading into the tournament: https://youtu.be/bbcJhA1zqNo
• Read more about all kinds of turfgrass topics at https://www.asianturfgrass.com/
• See the ATC newsletters at https://subscribepage.com/atc_newsletters
• Listen to the ATC Doublecut with Micah Woods podcast at https://atc-doublecut.transistor.fm/

Turf Without Borders show page: https://turfwb.micah-woods.com/
PACE Turf: https://paceturf.org/membership/
ATC newsletters: https://www.asianturfgrass.com/newsletter/
ATC soil tests: https://www.asianturfgrass.com/project/soil-tests/

Creators and Guests

Host

Micah Woods

I'm chief scientist at the Asian Turfgrass Center and director of the @paceturf information service. Some current projects include #OM246, #ClipVol, and #MLSN.

What is Office Hours with Micah Woods?

I discuss technical turfgrass topics with turfgrass managers, scientists, greenkeepers, and whoever drops by the office hours. There's a lot of talk about the work done to create playing surfaces for golf, and also about growing grass for sporting surfaces of all sort, and also some talk of lawns.