Every year I take a lot of turfgrass photos. These are some of my favorites from 2025. First, however, my flight map for the year. I also make a lot of charts every year, and I especially enjoy creating maps.
In 2025, I took 83 flights, covering 260,274 km.
That compares to 53 flights over 151,099 km in 2024, and 76 flights over 228,781 km in 2023.
Now for the photos. Click on any image to make it full screen.
January, dormant zoysiagrass in the sunshine in Kagoshima.
January, I went to Loch Lomond and saw some fine turfgrass and low clouds, and also beautiful color with moss and other northern plants. This is not the tropical color palette I often see in January.
January, these three pots are three selections of zoysiagrass from the same putting green. I’ve grown them in pots with infrequent mowing to allow the leaves to extend.
March, Cynodon fairway with a breaching whale and sailboat off the west coast of Maui.
March, Mt. Fuji seen from Yokohama, a creeping bentgrass green, and dormant zoysiagrass through the green.
April, I met Mr. David Stone at The Honors Course, saw some zebra pattern discoloration on bermudagrass in the rough from a recent frost, received some golf tips, saw a beautiful golf course coming out of winter, and really liked this particular photo.
April, I’ve been paying attention to hotel lawns and this manilagrass lawn was a good place to watch a sunset in Krabi.
May, I brought my sampling tools to a golf course near Mt. Fuji and carefully collected some OM246 samples.
June, A train and a tropical carpetgrass (Axonopus compressus) fairway and ‘Tifeagle’ bermudagrass greens at Royal Colombo Golf Club.
August, I went to Copenhagen for a week to collect data at Furesø Golfklub during the DP World Tour’s Danish Golf Championship. The course was in excellent condition and the weather during the week was superb, as this photo of the 9th green (Agrostis canina & Festuca rubra spp.) just before sunset makes clear.
August, the 6th fairway and green at Furesø Golfklub during the Danish Golf Championship was looking bright green in the morning light. One of the reasons I was there was to check the conditions and to learn about the work being done to produce these surfaces without using pesticides. To look at a course in this type of condition, you wouldn’t think that it is pesticide-free.
August, greenkeeping in the foreground, agronomy in the background.
October, lots of Sasa (not a turfgrass, I know) in the mountains in Japan, with various plants of fescue also abundant. But this picture is better than the ones that show Festuca.
October, I went to Nikko Golf Club during the Japan Open and saw the bentgrass greens (interseeded in recent years by ‘777’ creeping bentgrass) and the long noshiba (Zoysia japonica) rough typical of Japan Open course setup.
December, tropical carpetgrass (Axonopus compressus) in tree shade in Ayutthaya.