Turfgrass

I was at Java this week for a visit to a golf course near Bogor and I had a chance to spend a morning at the Bogor Botanical Gardens (or kebun raya in Indonesian).

I was at Japan for nine days this month to speak at turfgrass science seminars and to have a few meetings. For an official report of the seminars, check for updates to www.

What you see at left is an image of the turfgrass information page of the new www.asianturfgrass.com, where I have added a thumbnail image of the articles that are available for download.

That is the question many people are asking today after my photo was prominently misnomered at Sina.com. I was at the extraordinarily good Spring City Golf and Lake Resort Resort in Kunming this week to speak at the Turf Management – Best Practice III conference.

I was interviewed by Golf Digest Singapore earlier this year during a break in the 2nd IGOLF Singapore Golf & Environment Forum at the Keppel Club. That interview, where I speak about the Asian Turfgrass Center and the challenges of managing turfgrass in Southeast Asia, can be seen on the video page of the Golf Digest Singapore website or you can view the video on YouTube.

I have prepared this new advertisement to run in an upcoming issue of Golf Business Asia, the publication of the Asian Golf Course Owners' Association (AGCOA). I've written a number of articles for Golf Business Asia over the past few years, many of which are posted as .

We have all been to conferences or seminars and have seen excellent presentations; we have also seen presentations that were not interesting or somehow failed to convey much useful information to the audience.

Poignant, isn’t it, a young man dancing in a palace ballroom with his invisible princess? This is the Marukatayawan Palace at เพชรบุรี (Phetchaburi) province to the southwest of Bangkok. Now a museum, the palace faces the Gulf of Thailand and is visually stunning, expansive, balustraded, and deliciously open to the fresh sea breezes.

Two weeks from today, the Sustainable Turfgrass Management for Southeast Asia seminars will commence at Thailand, and there will be a turfgrass field day here at ATC’s research area on 10 March.

I discovered an extraordinary organic fertilizer a few weeks ago at the elephant kraal in Ayuddhaya. This product is, to quote from the label, “ELE-POO 100% ELEPHANT FERTILIZER.” We will be testing its affect on turfgrass color and quality.