The Doublecut with Micah Woods

Here are four specific things to look at with total organic material by depth (#OM246) test results.

The blog post I discussed is this one: https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/om246-reports-explained/
The video in that post is https://youtu.be/wUtpJC1YPU0

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Matteo Serena is the Senior Manager of Irrigation Research and Services for the USGA. We discussed drip irrigation, growth regulators and soil surfactants, water use, overseeding, and bermudagrass vs. zoysiagrass water use.

We discussed this ATC blog post: https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/zoysia-and-water-use/

We also discussed these articles:
- https://www.usga.org/content/usga/home-page/course-care/green-section-record/61/issue-15/measuring-and-comparing-the-water-requirements-of-warm-season-gr.html#
- https://doi.org/10.2134/agronj2018.03.0148

See this zoysia video with Dr. Kenworthy: https://youtu.be/R6ZXW85mm84
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I checked the top episodes, discussed turf terminology, and discussed the 2025 GCSAA Outstanding Contribution Award winners Dr. Wendy Gelernter and Dr. Larry Stowell.

The four posts discussed in this episode are:

• https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/the-turf-gvx-growth-versus-expected/
• https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/seven-minutes-of-outstanding-contributions/
• https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/football-seminar-in-bangkok/
• https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/top-atc2x-episodes/

• Read more about all kinds of turfgrass topics at https://www.asianturfgrass.com/
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• Turfgrass information and decision-making tools at https://www.paceturf.org/
• PACE Turf YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/paceturf
• ATC's YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/asianturfgrasscenter

When the cool-season growth potential (GP) is lower than the warm-season GP, the difference between them (the ΔGP) will be negative. In this episode, I discuss ΔGP and three different ways to think of summer duration.

I discussed this blog post: https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/summer-assessment-with-delta-gp/

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ATC's YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/asianturfgrasscenter

I wondered what NotebookLM could do, so I created a couple notebooks. One has the title “Global Soil Survey,” and in that notebook I uploaded articles and documents I’ve written about MLSN and the GSS. I let the model generate a few different audio summaries of this project. And I uploaded the text to A Short Grammar of Greenkeeping, and I let the model produce an audio summary of that book.

• Blog post: https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/grammar-greenkeeping-turfgrass-growth-optimal-playing-surfaces/
• Google's NotebookLM
• Global Soil Survey
• MLSN cheat sheet
• PACE Turf

Grant Saunders is the course superintendent at Hamilton Golf Club in New Zealand. He has successfully overseen a green species conversion from Poa annua to browntop bentgrass (Agrostis capillaris). We discussed that, and the role of OM testing, and sand topdressing, and soil pH, and greenkeeping in New Zealand.

Some links include:

• https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/accumulation-soil-organic-material/
• https://hamiltongcmaintenance.blogspot.com/2018/06/poa-vs-browntop.html
• A "Cart Rides with Micah" episode from Hamilton Golf Club https://youtu.be/dWj-MO4UBW4?si=oF-rtC_BWTPEYZmB
• https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/gp-as-proxy-for-season-length/
• https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/new-mlsn-cheat-sheet/

• Read more about all kinds of turfgrass topics at https://www.asianturfgrass.com/
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• Turfgrass information and decision-making tools at https://www.paceturf.org/
• PACE Turf YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/paceturf
• ATC's YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/asianturfgrasscenter

When you know the rate at which organic material is accumulating in the rootzone, you can adjust sand topdressing rates with more precision. You can also start to check how any changes in maintenance can have an effect on the accumulation rate.

The blog post discussed is this one: https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/inexorable-rise-soil-organic-matter/

The Shiny app to calculate the accumulation rate is: https://asianturfgrass.shinyapps.io/om246/

You can learn all about OM246 tests at https://www.asianturfgrass.com/project/om246/

Read more about all kinds of turfgrass topics at https://www.asianturfgrass.com/
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Turfgrass information and decision-making tools at https://www.paceturf.org/
PACE Turf YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/paceturf
ATC's YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/asianturfgrasscenter

T-Jay Creamer is the golf course superintendent at Olympic View Golf Club in western Canada. He joined me to discuss tournament golf maintenance and the grammar of greenkeeping.

We discussed this ATC blog post: https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/two-weeks-in-august/
T-Jay's Substack newsletter is https://ovgrounds.substack.com/
He explained the green speed and smoothness annual summary in this post, discussed at the end of our podcast: https://ovgrounds.substack.com/p/chasing-the-numbers-2024-greens-speed
USGA video with Chris Tritabaugh about pinpoint precision at the U.S. Amateur https://youtu.be/FA9YLlKsdFE

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Turfgrass information and decision-making tools at https://www.paceturf.org/
PACE Turf YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/paceturf
ATC's YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/asianturfgrasscenter

A month ago Joe Gulotti and I walked the fairways and greens of the Montchanin Course at Dupont Country Club. I wrote a blog post about that, and we discussed my visit in this episode.

Blog post: https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/a-visit-to-the-talking-greenkeeper/
The Talking Greenkeeper podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-talking-greenkeeper/id1435947281

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Turfgrass information and decision-making tools at https://www.paceturf.org/
PACE Turf YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/paceturf
ATC's YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/asianturfgrasscenter
Listen to the ATC Doublecut with Micah Woods podcast at https://doublecut.asianturfgrass.com/
Listen to the ATC Office Hours podcast at https://office-hours.asianturfgrass.com/

You can sometimes, perhaps more often than you would think, find soil under good turf to have lower nutrient content than does soil under poor quality turf. In this episode, I explain why that is, what the implications of this phenomenon are, and what you can do about it.

• This blog post has all the details on the turf (and soil) paradox: https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/turf-paradox/
• Henry Qu and I discussed learning, Bayesian analysis, and more in this engaging conversation: https://youtu.be/o4Y4xJt0stU?si=2jQevp6CqKPWR1gi

• Read more about all kinds of turfgrass topics at https://www.asianturfgrass.com/
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• PACE Turf YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/paceturf
• ATC's YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/asianturfgrasscenter