The Complete Library Of Media
References Regarding Turf Hacker

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Activist-Golf-Course-Superintendent

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Haines’ Incorrect Maintenance Doctrines Lead
To Dead Grass & Useless Golf Playing Surfaces !

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Confessions Of A Sick Bastжrd Who Likes To See The Poa Die  … 

Chronically sick   •   Constant struggle every year   •   Constantly trying to die   •   Disease absolutely exploded   •   Disease more prevalent   •   Failures   •   Highly susceptible grass   •   Keeping green on life support   •   Problem green   •   Stuck in the circle of decline   •   War zone   •   Worst disease ever   •   Worst playing conditions. 

The above quotations describe the predictable results on golf courses managed by so-called « activist-superintendents », like Jason Haines ( a.k.a. Turf Hacker ), who has confessed that his unproven and incorrect maintenance doctrines are failures. 

Haines has described himself as the « Sick Bastжrd … Who Likes To See The Poa Die ».   [ ?!?! ]   And, based upon the photographic evidence that he has presented in his Turf Hacker blog, he has been granted his wish. 

See « The Confessions Of An Activist-Superintendent ». 

Haines, and other « activist-superintendent », allow themselves to become distracted with failed, unproven, incorrect, and undisciplined doctrines that DO NOT WORK, or have NO place in decisions concerning golf course maintenance, such as   …     

Environmental Impact Quotient ( EIQ )   •   Global Warming   •   Go Brown Anti-Cosmetic Golf Maintenance   •   Fertilizer Nutrient Reduction   •   Integrated Pest Management Practices ( IPM )   •   Minimum Level For Sustainable Nutrition Guidelines ( MLSN )   •   Organic Maintenance   •   Pace Turf Information Service   •   Pollinator Best Management Practices   •   Self-Imposing Restrictions & Prohibitions Against Pesticides   •   Spot Spray & Spot Treatment Replacing Blanket Application   •   Switching To Ineffective Green Alternative Pesticides   •   Zero Cultivation & Reduced Core Aeration. 

By adopting these incorrect and undisciplined maintenance doctrines, observers question the « activist-superintendents’ » ability and competence to provide what paying golf-customers demand  …  high-quality playing conditions and aesthetics. 

Haines, and other « activist-superintendent », also appear to be clueless about plant physiology and disease incidence.  In fact, many of their observations are absolutely wrong. 

The golf industry’s « correct and disciplined » main-stream superintendents must recognize that they are on a collision course with pesticide-hating « activist-superintendent » !  In order to successfully deter their malicious efforts, the golf industry must establish policies for expelling these activists from its trade associations. 

See « The Critical Issues That Must Be Addressed By The Golf Industry ». 

 

For more information, please explore the following links  …

 

√ — The Confessions Of An Activist-Superintendent — LINK

 

√ — The Critical Issues That Must Be Addressed By The Golf Industry — LINK

 

Take a look at even more links  …

 

√ — Activist-Superintendents On The Sunshine Coast — LINK

 

√ — Activist-Superintendents In The District Of Saanich — LINK

 

√ — The Entire Media Library Of Attacks Against The Golf Industry — LINK

 

√ — Pollinator Best Management Practices In The Golf Industry — LINK

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Turf Hacker Platitudes

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All The Signs I Had Were Suggesting That My Greens Needed More Fertilizer  [ True ]

Controlling Disease On Tees & Approaches Without Pesticides 

Microdochium Nivale Totally Destroying My Approaches  

Core Aeration, A Thing Of The Past  [ Absolute & Total Nonsense ]

I Punch The Greens With 3-Inch Long X 3⁄8-Inch Solid Tines  [ This Can Never Replace Core Aeration ]

First Core On Greens In Over 4 Years  [ Who Made This Decision ? ]

Fairways Were Wiped Out  …  You Could See The Devastation From Space

How Rolling Can Help Fight Climate Change  [ Who Cares ? Who Made This Decision ? ]

I Changed Over To The  [ Unproven & Unscientific ]  MLSN Fertility Guidelines

If We Are Making Preventative Fungicide Applications, We Aren’t Seeing The Active Disease  [ Clearly He Cannot Evaluate Conditions Favouring Disease Development ]

Is Phosphite An Environmentally Friendly Alternative To Traditional Pesticides ?  [ Illegal & Ineffective Use Of A Bogus Green Alternative ]

Lawns Can Become ‘Addicted’ To Pesticide & Fertilizer  [ Absolute & Total Nonsense ]

Managed Disease Without The Need For Traditional Fungicides  [ Why Has This Decision Been Made ? ]

Both Organic Golf Courses In British Columbia Have Gone Out Of Business  [ Shouldn’t This Be A Clue NOT To Self-Impose Any Pesticide Ban ? ]

Preventative Fungicide Applications Would Have Robbed Me The Opportunity To Observe Disease  [ Absolute & Total Nonsense ]

Since 2014 I Have Basically Ignored Moss Everywhere On My Course  [ & There Is Moss Everywhere ]

Shade Makes It Hard To Grow Healthy Dense Turf That Can Compete With Moss  [ Perhaps It Is Time To Start Removing More Trees ? ]

The Continual Use Of Fungicides Doesn’t Give The Plant’s Natural Defence Systems A Chance To Fight Back  [ Absolute & Total Nonsense ]

There’s No Point In IPM Unless You Can Keep The Grass Healthy & Playable  [ True ]

We Haven’t Used A Herbicide On Our Fairways In 10 Years  [ & Clover Is Evident Everywhere ]

We Really Don’t Care If Our Fairways Get Disease Anyway  [ Who Made This Decision ? ]

What Levels Of Turfgrass Death Are Acceptable ?  …  Without The Use Of Pesticides  [ Who Made This Decision ? ]

Withholding Pesticides & Powering Through The Damage  [ Who Made This Decision ? ]

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The Library Of References

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Reference — Turf Hacker — 2018 12 14 — Addressing Climate Change In Golf

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2018 12 02 — Worst Disease Ever — The Circle Of Decline — NORAHG RESPONSE

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2018 12 02 — Worst Disease Ever — The Circle Of Decline — HIGHLIGHTED

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2018 12 02 — First Core On Greens In Over 4 Years

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2018 12 02 — First Core On Greens In Over 4 Years — HIGHLIGHTED

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2018 08 25 — Let’s Try This Organic Thing Again

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2018 06 26 — Niels Dokkuma From The Koninklijke Nederlandse Golf Federatie Visited My Course

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2018 06 26 — Lawns Can Become ‘Addicted’ To Pesticide & Fertilizer

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2018 06 26 — Lawns Can Become ‘Addicted’ To Pesticide & Fertilizer — HIGHLIGHTED

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2018 06 25 — Sick Bastжrd Like Me Who Likes To See The Poa Die — HIGHLIGHTED

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2018 06 11 — What I Should Do Is Fertilize My Greens More

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2018 06 11 — What I Should Do Is Fertilize My Greens More — HIGHLIGHTED

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2018 06 11 — All The Signs I Had Were Suggesting That My Greens Needed More Fertilizer

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2018 06 11 — All The Signs I Had Were Suggesting That My Greens Needed More Fertilizer — HIGHLIGHTED

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2018 04 22 — Microdochium Patch & Dollar Spot

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2018 03 02 — PACE Turf’s Climate Appraisal form & Micah’s MLSN Cheat Sheet

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2018 03 02 — PACE Turf’s Climate Appraisal form & Micah’s MLSN Cheat Sheet — HIGHLIGHTED

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2018 02 01 — Pender Groundskeeper Brings Precision To The Green

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2018 00 00 — Better Management of Your Turf

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2018 00 00 — Better Management of Your Turf — NORAHG RESPONSE

 

 

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Video Recordings & Image

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Reference -- Turf Hacker -- 2018 12 04 -- Pesticide Ban -- Using Data To Make Decisions -- Video Recording -- 04 Minutes 26 Seconds

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Reference -- Turf Hacker -- 2018 10 24 -- Why Doesn’t Spot Spraying Work For Everyone -- Disease Spread -- Video Recording -- 11 Minutes 34 Seconds

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Reference -- Turf Hacker -- 2018 10 22 -- Spot Spraying Disease Patterns & Infection Sources -- Video Recording -- 04 Minutes 22 Seconds

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Reference -- Turf Hacker -- 2018 09 01 -- Let's Talk About Mental Health In Greenkeeping -- Part 1 -- Video Recording -- 06 Minutes 02 Seconds

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Reference -- Turf Hacker -- 2018 09 01 -- Let's Talk About Mental Health In Greenkeeping -- Part 2 -- Video Recording -- 05 Minutes 59 Seconds

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Reference -- Turf Hacker -- 2018 09 01 -- Let's Talk About Mental Health In Greenkeeping -- Part 3 -- Video Recording -- 05 Minutes 32 Seconds

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Reference -- Turf Hacker -- 2018 08 26 -- Dollar Spot Model Slope -- Video Recording -- 05 Minutes 43 Seconds

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Reference -- Turf Hacker -- 2018 08 23 -- Dollar Spot -- Video Recording -- 07 Minutes 01 Seconds

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Reference -- Turf Hacker -- 2018 08 23 -- Dollar Spot -- Video Recording -- 07 Minutes 01 Seconds

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Reference -- Turf Hacker -- 2018 12 02 -- First Core On Greens In Over 4 Years -- Image

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Reference — Turf Hacker — 2017 12 19 — Half Of Our Greens Dead — Audubon — Nederlandse Golf Federatie

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2017 11 24 — The Evolution Of Precision Fertilizer Application

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2017 08 04 — Afternoon Watering — Syringing — Micah Woods Wrong

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2017 06 17 — More About Wood Ash & Why It Seems To Reduce Turf Disease

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2017 05 29 — Negatively Impacting Environment — Natural Green Keeper Practitioner

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2017 03 22 — Alternate Winter Damage Recovery Solutions — Seed Priming

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2017 02 22 — Recovering From Winter Damage With GP And MLSN

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2017 02 14 — Dollar Spot IPM — Low-Input Turf Management — Hydrogen Dioxide

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2017 02 06 — How Reduced Fertilizer Has Benefited My Golf Course

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2017 01 05 — 2017 Pesticide Usage Summary

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Reference — Turf Hacker — 2016 11 13 — How Rolling Can Help Fight Climate Change

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2016 11 03 — Spot Spraying & Counting Disease

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2016 10 25 — MLSN Guidelines Changed The Way I Fertilize My Golf Course

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2016 10 22 — 1 Fungicide App Per Year — Wood Ash

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2016 10 18 — Managed Disease Without The Need For Traditional Fungicides

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2016 07 27 — Diseasey As Hell — Thatch Collapse

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2016 06 20 — Microdochium Nivale Totally Destroying My Approaches

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2016 06 18 — Since 2014 I Have Basically Ignored Moss Everywhere On My Course

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2016 06 12 — There’s No Point In IPM Unless You Can Keep The Grass Healthy & Playable

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2016 04 21 — Winter Program

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2016 04 19 — Measuring The Growth Rate Has Been One Of The Most Enlightening Things

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2016 04 10 — Reasons To Not Aerate In Spring

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2016 04 04 — Starving Greens — Using Soluble Source Fertilizers

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2016 03 28 — 5 Things That I Don’t Do Anymore … & Why

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2016 03 25 — Cultural Control Of Poa Annua Seedheads

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2016 03 14 — Why Does Phosphite Matter

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2016 03 12 — The Psychology Of Going MLSN

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2016 02 02 — Turfgrass Fertilization Is Not That Complicated

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2016 01 09 — In 2015 I Spent Less On Pesticide Than Any Other Year

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Reference — Turf Hacker — 2015 12 16 — Grass No Grow, Grass No Disease

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2015 11 10 — More Reductions In Quantity, Not Quality

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2015 08 15 — Preventative Fungicide Applications Would Have Robbed Me The Opportunity To Observe Disease

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2015 08 10 — Death To Poa Annua — Anthracnose

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2015 04 24 — Is Phosphite An Environmentally Friendly Alternative To Traditional Pesticides

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2015 04 20 — MLSN Guidelines — PACE Turf & Micah Woods

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2015 04 19 — Lean Mean & Green

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2015 04 18 — Core Aeration, A Thing Of The Past

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2015 04 07 — Controlling Disease On Tees & Approaches Without Pesticides

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Reference — Turf Hacker — 2014 12 18 — Environmental Impact Quotient ( EIQ ) — Civitas — Phosphite — Self-Imposed Pesticide Ban

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2014 12 05 — I Have Made Great Strides To Reduce The Amount Of Fertilizer Applied

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2014 08 25 — One Light Application Of Chlorothalonil Would Use Up Half Of My Yearly Budgeted EIQ

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2014 08 23 — I Changed Over To The MLSN Fertility Guidelines

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2014 06 21 — Hole 3 Is Finally Looking Good Thanks To Some Tree Removal

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2014 04 24 — Spreading Fusarium Via Verti-Cutters & Mowers — Spot Treatment

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2014 03 09 — Fusarium Management Plan — Disease Was Pretty Bad

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Reference -- Turf Hacker -- 2014 02 06 -- Acceptance Speech For Best Blog Award -- Video Recording -- 02 Minutes 10 Seconds

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Reference — Turf Hacker — 2014 02 01 — Environmental Impact Quotient ( EIQ ) — Exactly What We Need

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2014 01 16 — Fusarium Spread & Spot Treating Questions

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2014 01 08 — Minimum Level For Sustainable Nutrition Guidelines ( MLSN )

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2014 01 06 — Primo MAXX Applications Could Fit Into My IPM Program

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2014 01 04 — Not What Golfers Want To See When They Search For Pender Harbour Golf

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Reference — Turf Hacker — 2013 09 23 — Fairways Were Wiped Out — You Could See The Devastation From Space

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2013 07 20 — Dollar Spot Management Plan — Civitas & Phosphite Program

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2013 06 20 — Withholding Pesticides & Powering Through The Damage

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2013 05 26 — We Haven’t Used A Herbicide On Our Fairways In 10 Years

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2013 02 25 — Fusarium Patch — Phosphite & Civitas Applications On Greens

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2013 01 21 — Fusarium Patch — Extreme Attacks — Iron Sulphate & Phosphites

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Reference — Turf Hacker — 2012 12 14 — Fairways Were Completely Smoked, No, NUKED With Dollar Spot

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2012 11 24 — Yellow Patch — Destruction Caused By Lack Of Pesticide Use

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2012 10 01 — I Rolled The Putting Greens At My Course About 200 Times

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2012 07 28 — Both Organic Golf Courses In British Columbia Have Gone Out Of Business

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2012 07 18 — Dollar Spot — Civitas, Phosphites, & Rhapsody ASO

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2012 07 07 — Fusarium Patch — I Began To Roll My Greens 2x Daily

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2012 05 30 — Fusarium Patch — Rolling Results

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2012 02 29 — Shade Makes It Hard To Grow Healthy Dense Turf That Can Compete With Moss

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Reference — Turf Hacker — 2011 12 22 — Mower Efficiency Comparison — Surface Areas

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2011 12 01 — Another Look At Moss On Putting Greens

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2011 11 22 — I Punch The Greens With 3-In Long X 3-8-In Solid Tines

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2011 11 00 — Cultural Control Of Moss On Putting Greens

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2011 09 14 — If We Are Making Preventative Fungicide Applications, We Aren’t Seeing The Active Disease

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2011 09 05 — What Levels Of Turfgrass Death Are Acceptable — Without The Use Of Pesticides

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2011 09 02 — IPM Disease Monitoring — List Of Diseases

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2011 08 17 — IPM Against Dollar Spot — We Really Don’t Care If Our Fairways Get Disease Anyway

Reference — Turf Hacker — 2011 07 27 — The Continual Use Of Fungicides Doesn’t Give The Plant’s Natural Defence Systems A Chance To Fight Back 

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