Tournaments and the "grammar" with T-Jay Creamer
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
Read more about all kinds of turfgrass topics at https://www.asianturfgrass.com/
Get ATC newsletters at https://www.asianturfgrass.com/newsletter/
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
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
Read more about all kinds of turfgrass topics at https://www.asianturfgrass.com/
Get ATC newsletters at https://www.asianturfgrass.com/newsletter/
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
Subscribe to my new podcast, Turf Without Borders, at https://turfwb.asianturfgrass.com/subscribe
Register for the Canadian Golf Course Management Conference in Niagara Falls at https://ogsa.ca/golfsupers-2025thecanadian/
Register for the Canadian Golf Course Management Conference in Niagara Falls at https://ogsa.ca/golfsupers-2025thecanadian/
Register for the BIGGA Continue to Learn programme in Harrogate: https://www.btme.org.uk/continue-to-learn.html
Register for my seminar at the GCSAA Conference and Show: https://gcsaaconference.com/education/session-detail?evt_id=737742c0-bb52-4192-ab34-f06c2413df04&ses_id=d85db2dc-ec5b-48c4-820f-57abce2a5193
If you'd like to attend the 15th International Turfgrass Research Conference in Japan, here's a direct link to the conference website: https://itrc2025.turfsociety.com/
Creators and Guests
Host
Micah Woods
I'm chief scientist at the Asian Turfgrass Center and director of the @paceturf information service. Some current projects include #OM246, #ClipVol, and #MLSN.
Guest
T-Jay Creamer
Superintendent @ Olympic View Golf Club, AGS, Penn State BSc Turf Grad; CGSA Inaugural Asst.Super of the Year ‘17; Turf & Rec Mag Cdn Top 10 Under 40 ‘18