In case you missed them, these articles and links from the past month are likely to be of interest to turfgrass managers in Asia:

Grass selection and the right grass on this award-winning new course in Vietnam.

I posted 3 turfgrass mysteries in December: underwater grass, a mysterious line on the green, and a greenside spot.

Golf course architect Paul Jansen believes some golf courses would be much improved without any bunkers at all. He wrote more about this in a My View piece for The R&A:

"an excessive amount of needless features add little to the golf experience" from @pauljansengolf in R&A My View http://t.co/it0tkZEFPP

— Micah Woods (@asianturfgrass) December 20, 2013

Greg Evans wrote this article in Pitchcare about growth potential and taking greens that extra step.

Dave Oatis wrote about the utility of check plots in the Green Section Record.

Does dew removal help reduce Fusarium?

Reducing fusarium with dew removal.....or not via @pendersuper w/ interesting report from Oregon State's @mattoxgolf http://t.co/YcIkrHYFOT

— Micah Woods (@asianturfgrass) December 8, 2013

Grass report from Mauritius and slides and handouts from my presentation there.

Grass report from Dubai

I studied the website statistics and found the most viewed posts on this blog over the past years. In 2013, these are the top 5 and these complete the top 10.

These are the top 5 posts of 2012, 2011, and 2010.

I'll be writing a new column for GCM China.

I was in India for the first half of December for the Indian Golf Union greenkeeper education programme. Here are photos and reports from East Zone at Jamshedpur, North Zone at Delhi, and West Zone at Ahmedabad.

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