Learning Objectives:

• Participants will understand physiological requirements and limitations on growing bermudagrass in stressful environments
• Participants will be able to manipulate the microenvironment surrounding greens to better support bermudagrass growth and survival
• Participants will be able to adjust cultural practices such as watering, fertilizing, and cultivation to minimize thatch/mat and grain development
• Participants will be able to make critical management decisions to better provide high quality putting greens
• Participants will be able to detect, manage, and control all major diseases, nematodes, and weeds of bermudagrass golf greens