ATC Office Hours

ATC Office Hours

Asian Turfgrass Center

Episodes 19
Avg. Duration 1h 54m
Activity Active
Since Nov 2021
Latest Episode Dec 2025

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Quarterly
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Episodic
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About This Podcast

I discuss technical turfgrass topics with turfgrass managers, scientists, greenkeepers, and whoever drops by the ATC 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.

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Recent Episodes

Autumn #OM246 review: 7 year timeline with Chris Tritabaugh

Dec 01, 2025 1h 39m

Chris Tritabaugh and I share and comment on the latest #OM246 test results from what is now a time series stretching over the past seven growing seasons. We discuss what has changed, what hasn't, how…

Pesticide-free turf management with Thomas Pihl, Mads Andersen, and Martin Nilsson

Nov 05, 2025 1h 53m

Thomas Pihl, Mads Andersen, and Martin Nilsson joined ATC Office Hours to discuss the challenges, techniques, successes, and failures involved with pesticide-free turfgrass management in…

Fungicide use intensity, the soil microbiome, and disease severity with Dr. Ming-Yi Chou

Aug 04, 2025 1h 31m

Dr. Ming-Yi Chou joined me for a short discussion about this topic at the ITRC. Now we discuss this on ATC Office Hours and answer a few questions. For more, see:-…

2024 #OM246 review with Chris Tritabaugh

Dec 31, 2024 2h 33m

Join me, along with Chris Tritabaugh from Hazeltine National GC, as we review autumn soil test results. We especially look at the #OM246 total organic material results, and discuss those in the…

ATC Office Hours: growth ratio, measurement units, & turf math with Jason Haines & Bjarni Hannesson

Feb 09, 2024 2h 14m

Jason and Bjarni joined me to talk about some useful turfgrass math, especially  the turfgrass growth ratio, which you can read more about at https://www.asianturfgrass.com/tag/growth-ratio/Find more…

Autumn #OM246 review with "the guy who doesn't do maintenance Mondays"

Nov 20, 2023 2h 43m

For the third consecutive autumn, Chris Tritabaugh joined me to review the OM246 (total organic material by depth) test results from the greens at Hazeltine National Golf Club. We discussed playing…

Firm bentgrass greens and OM management with Richard Forsyth

May 10, 2023 1h 41m

Richard Forsyth is the director of courses at Royal Melbourne Golf Club. We discussed playing conditions, maintenance work, and grass types in relation to production of firm putting surfaces.Chris…

Championship conditions discussion with Eric Johnson and MLSN, ClipVol, & OM246

Feb 01, 2023 2h 16m

Eric Johnson joined from his office at Chambers Bay to discuss everyday golfing conditions, championship playing surfaces, and workflow using techniques such as clipping volume (#ClipVol), total…

Why are we cultivating so much? Soil organic matter with Dr. Roch Gaussoin

Dec 16, 2022 1h 33m

Dr. Roch Gaussoin and I discussed soil organic matter, soil organic material, and a lot of things related that that topic.Read more about all kinds of turfgrass topics at…

Autumn 2022 OM246 review with Chris Tritabaugh

Dec 08, 2022 1h 49m

Find out more about #OM246 testing at https://www.asianturfgrass.com/tag/om246/Read Chris's blog with more about this topic at https://ct-turf.medium.com/Read more about all kinds of turfgrass topics…

MLSN and soil test interpretation on bentgrass and Poa annua with Jackie Guevara

Aug 02, 2022 2h 7m

Jackie's thesis at Michigan State University was titled "Effects of Different Soil Testing Philosophies on Creeping Bentgrass and Annual Bluegrass Putting Greens." She looked at how much P and K were…

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

May 24, 2022 2h 15m

Ball bounce clip from Dan Dinelli: https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxbIlZVkgZyANVSbtpaKnYkPk4xEeDGCyiPlayability-tagged posts on the ATC website: https://www.asianturfgrass.com/tag/playability/Chris…

No change in soil OM after sand topdressing just once in a year, with Andrew McDaniel

May 20, 2022 1h 21m

We discussed the ball reaction video from the 2021 KBC Augusta tournament: https://youtu.be/bbcJhA1zqNoWatch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/QxNAOcxzsYMFollow Andrew McDaniel on Twitter:…

Leaf nutrient analyses (tissue tests) with Doug Soldat

Mar 15, 2022 1h 8m

Doug Soldat joined me to discuss tissue tests for turfgrass, and how we might make use of them (or not) to make decisions about fertilizer.Frankly Speaking episode with some discussion of tissue…

Chris Tritabaugh's blog, disruption, and playability

Feb 22, 2022 2h 1m

Read Chris's blog at https://ct-turf.medium.com/The posts we discussed were titled Is that disruptionAre they right? andThe data says ...See more about the bobble test at…

Turfgrass growth potential (GP) with Larry Stowell from PACE Turf

Feb 18, 2022 1h 4m

Get climate appraisal forms from PACE Turf at https://www.paceturf.org/index.php/journal/climateRead about growth potential on the ATC website at…

Nutrient requirements of Poa annua and MLSN with Ben Brace

Feb 01, 2022 2h 14m

Ben Brace and I discussed how we expect MLSN to work for Poa annua, and if there might be some differences compared with creeping bentgrass. We discussed biostimulants, soil sampling, potassium and…

Tom Cook on lawn ecology, bentgrass, and climax species in the Pacific Northwest

Dec 03, 2021 1h 27m

Watch the video of this conversation: https://youtu.be/Xga9_uA8MBgRead more about Tom Cook in this article:…

OM246 report review with Chris Tritabaugh

Nov 24, 2021 2h 31m

Chris Tritabaugh, the golf course superintendent at Hazeltine National Golf Club in Minnesota, discusses an OM246 report for samples collected in October 2021. This is total organic material by…

Frequently Asked Questions

How many episodes does ATC Office Hours have?

ATC Office Hours has published 19 episodes since November 2021, covering topics in Golf, Natural Sciences.

Is ATC Office Hours still active?

ATC Office Hours is currently active with new episodes quarterly. Average episode length is 1h 54m.

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