WinterTurf Data Collection “We Need Your Help!”
By: Kristine Moncada and Eric Watkins University of Minnesota
Golf course superintendents around the world helped collect data last season for our WinterTurf Project (https:// winterturf.umn.edu/); we truly appreciate all the assistance these superintendents, many of them from Minnesota, provided. Now we are starting our efforts to sign up past and new participants for another winter of data collection that will start after the current golfing season. Goal of the project We are collecting data on winter stress injury to help develop solutions to this serious problem that affects so many golf courses in northern regions all over the world. As part of our plan to find solutions, we need to 38
collect data at as many sites as possible to capture all the most likely factors that are involved in winter injury. What are we asking you to do? We are asking you to monitor 1-3 greens on your golf course throughout the winter. This will include taking some photos and notes about the green going into winter, then measuring snow depth on the green and making some general observations each week during the winter, and finally doing a final assessment after winter. Why participate again? We hope those of you who did it in the past will consider continuing another year. Information from a single