Behind The Turf Nadeem Zreikat

This episode comes from the permission of The Golfing Greenkeeper Podcast where we partnered with Steve and presented a series of episodes. This episode focuses on the resources turf managers can use on a day to day basis. 
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This episode has been in the making for quite sometime. I speak to Peter McMaugh AM who is a stalwart of the Australian turf industry and expert in the field. He has the innovator of many practices that we use in turf locally an internationally. We speak about his career with regards to the Australian Turf Industry and you can’t talk turf in Australia without mentioning Peter. 
I am also joined by David Worrad of Living Turf as co-host as he has been involved for many years with Peter and has seen the advancements in turf over the past 40+ years he has been involved in.
Peter was bestowed The Order of Australia at the level of Member of the Order (AM) in 2019 for significant service to horticulture through the development of Australian turf varieties.
Contact Nadeem zreikat@campbellchemicals.com.au
See our website
www.campbellchemicals.com.au
ASTMA Conference trade show registration (free)
 
To apply for the CPD points:
• Log into the ASTMA website members section
• Choose ‘manage your CPD’ under the membership tab
• Go to submit activity 
• Choose POD as activity code
 • Under activity name enter the unique code for this podcast as heard at the end of the episode
 
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This episode has been in the making for quite sometime. I speak to Peter McMaugh AM who is a stalwart of the Australian turf industry and expert in the field. He has the innovator of many practices that we use in turf locally an internationally. We speak about his career with regards to the Australian Turf Industry and you can’t talk turf in Australia without mentioning Peter. 
I am also joined by David Worrad of Living Turf as co-host as he has been involved for many years with Peter and has seen the advancements in turf over the past 40+ years he has been involved in.
Peter was bestowed The Order of Australia at the level of Member of the Order (AM) in 2019 for significant service to horticulture through the development of Australian turf varieties.
Contact Nadeem zreikat@campbellchemicals.com.au
See our website
www.campbellchemicals.com.au
ASTMA Conference trade show registration (free)
 
To apply for the CPD points:
• Log into the ASTMA website members section
• Choose ‘manage your CPD’ under the membership tab
• Go to submit activity 
• Choose POD as activity code
• Under activity name enter the unique code for this podcast as heard at the end of the episode

In this episode I speak to Steve Smith an ex superintendent I’ve known for 15 years running his own premium maintenance turf business. However, I am talking to him about his podcast, “The Golfing Greenkeeper.” The podcast has 2 themes to it. The first is Steve gives updates on the Australian golfing world and works happening on golf courses. As well as reporting on new projects being developed in Australia. The other theme is he speaks to current superintendents on their career and life as a greenkeeper. I have been an avid listener and wanted our friends to know more about the podcast and Steve. We speak about his time as a super and what got him into doing the podcast. Please have a listen to this episode.In this episode I speak to Steve Smith an ex superintendent I’ve known for 15 years running his own premium maintenance turf business. However, I am talking to him about his podcast, “The Golfing Greenkeeper.” The podcast has 2 themes to it. The first is Steve gives updates on the Australian golfing world and works happening on golf courses. As well as reporting on new projects being developed in Australia. The other theme is he speaks to current superintendents on their career and life as a greenkeeper. I have been an avid listener and wanted our friends to know more about the podcast and Steve. We speak about his time as a super and what got him into doing the podcast. Please have a listen to this episode.

I had the pleasure of a chat with 3 very smart people today. This episode introduced a graduate student of Dr Jim Brosnans, Devon Carroll who is working on a her PHD. We firstly speak about her research about women in turf and the findings she has found on why and why not women work in the turf industry. We then dive into her latest research on poa overseen by Jim Brosnan on poa lifecycle. UT is at the forefront of poa research in turf. John Neylan joined me again and contributed nicely to the discussion as poa is his speciality and I appreciate him taking his time to be a part of it.

In todays episode I have 2 guests who I have been wanting to get onto the show. John Neylan is very well known in Australia and worldwide with his research and agronomy services. John has been lead the AGCSA (now ASTMA) for a number of years and also worked independently. He is now with SportEng in developing and designing sportsturf facilities. He also continues to conduct research in turf and lately has been doing work got the VGCSA (Victorian Golf Course Superintendents). My other guest is Shane Greenhill who is the superintendent of Sorrento golf club located on the southern part of the Mornington Peninsula. Shane is also the VGCSA president. We speak on a  number of topics including the history of the industry and where both Shane and John came from as well. We continue on a topic John discussed with Dr Frank Rossi on the turfnet podcast and the expectations of golfers and how turf managers deal with this expectation. We also speak about our favourite weed poa and the research the VGCSA has undertaken.