Best Management Practices for Maryland Golf Courses

Best Management Practices

• Ensure that proper cultural practices and traffic control that reduce turfgrass stress are used. • Correct conditions that produce stressful environments for the turf. (For example, improve airflow and drainage and reduce or eliminate shade.) • Fungicide use should be integrated into an overall management strategy for a golf course. • Apply a preventative pesticide to susceptible turfgrass when unacceptable levels of disease are likely to occur.

Figure 33. Red thread disease. Photo credit: Thomas Turner.

Figure 34. Brown patch mycelium. Photo credit: Thomas Turner.

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