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How are you  as turfgrass managers handling the trying time of the Coronavirus? Some ideas from Dave Wilber.

There is no question that the coronavirus is affecting all of our lives. Dave shares some advice of his own and others about what golf course superintendents and other turf managers are and should be doing.

White it is true that we have so many things to worry about concerning a worldwide health issue, the jobs that keep us employed are also of great importance. Some perspective on Leadership and Agronomy and Self-Care are a good thing.

Follow Dave on Twitter @turfgrasszealot.

Jake Mendoza, superintendent at historic Detroit Golf Club discusses how working for a few legendary superintendents help shape his career and prepare him for his current position. He also discusses following another legend who logged more than 50 years on the job at Detroit, inheriting the PGA Tour's Rocket Mortgage Classic and how new challenges, such as labor issues, affect daily maintenance practices on 36 holes that were designed by Donald Ross and at a club where Ross's brother was president for three decades.

Dave Wilber interviews Peter Kessler, long time host and driving force of The Golf Channel.

The Turfgrass Zealot project starts his year 2020 season with a bang! Peter Kessler, known as perhaps the greatest interviewer in Golf Media history joins Dave Wilber for a fun and unique conversation. Peter talks about his love of the game and those in the game. And provides some facinating stories. Wrestling with Arnie? Yes. It's here. Peter also talks about what Golf Course Superintendents and Greenkeeping mean to him. 

Enjoy this conversation with two dedicated and unique, if not outright savants. Only on TurfNet.com!

In this episode of the TurfNet Renovation Report, Anthony Pioppi chats with Rob Collins of King Collins Golf Course Design, one of the new generation of "movers and shapers" bringing fresh thought to golf course design and construction.

King Collins is the firm behind Sweetens Cove, Signal Mountain and The Buck Club, and is currently reworking the old Rondout Country Club in Accord, NY, a renovated 12-hole public track in Jackson, MI, and the new Landmand project in Nebraska.

Presented by Golf Course Preservations and The Andersons.

In this episode of Rockbottum Radio, the brilliance fairly gushes forth from the inhabitants of Rockbottum, with advice, observations and rants on everything from Skeletal Golf Theory to concussions, low budget superintendent relaxation techniques, fake waterfalls, what happened when the Mayor's wife picked a fight with Momma... and why playing your own golf course is not playing golf. It's something else. Finally, beware the red-circled tree for man-relief.

Presented by DryJect.

In this episode of Rockbottum Radio, presented by DryJect, Randy reveals his proven method for upgrading your BS filter. Then, Fester N. Boyle, the former green chair at Stinkin' Pond CC drops by to offer Momma some suggestions on golf maintenance.

Ludell sells golf insurance and extended golf swing warranties before getting in real trouble when he joins Buddy in a special yoga class at the gym, while Randy goes on about how to use Crowd Wisdom to see the future of golf.

In Storytime, RW tells about how he and brother Mike became golf course rocket scientists and managed to lower the surrounding property values.

In this episode of Frankly Speaking, Frank Rossi chats with Dr. Peter Dernoeden reflects on his academic, research and extension career in turfgrass pathology from Colorado and Rhode Island to Maryland, and his six degrees of separation from so many notable personalities in the turf industry.

Presented by DryJect and Intelligro/Civitas.

In this holiday episode of Rockbottum Radio, among zero-environmental impact mowers and white-lightning eggnog, it's the annual Christmas dinner for the crew and a twisted attempt at caroling ("In the fairway we can build a snowman..."). Aint Feemy runs over a slow-play golfer with her cart for calling her a Boomer. And, for Storytime, RW tells about his most memorable Christmas (1977, after two seasons as an assistant superintendent), when he also discovered Clarence the angel and Mr. Potter.

As his gift to all of us, RW suggests that in this time of division, anger and irrational reactions, we should consider the influence we have over friends and family, and how much impact our behavior has on our crew. Ask yourself this: will my effect next year be positive or negative?

RW and the Gang also welcome their new sponsor, DryJect.

In this episode of Frankly Speaking, Dan Dinelli relates what he has learned from his recent conversion from Poa annua on native soil greens to bentgrass on sand-based greens at North Shore Country Club near Chicago.

A fresh look at behavior and management of organic matter and biomass in sand-based systems, down to the single-particle level. A fascinating discussion!

Frankly Speaking is presented by Civitas/Intelligro and DryJect.

Carlton Henry, assistant superintendent at the Inverness Club in Toledo, Ohio, talks in this episode of The Ladder about the compressed schedule of the restoration of this Donald Ross classic golf course to make it relevant for today's game. He also talks about the compressed schedule to restore one of Ross's personal favorites so that it was ready to host this year's U.S. Junior Amateur, as well as preparations for the 2021 Solheim Cup in Toledo. Finally, he talks about learning the business of being a golf course superintendent from John Zimmers, the role he and fellow assistant Ryan Kaczor play in budgeting and communicating with members on a day-to-day basis.