‍STERF Newsletter December 20th 2024

Winter stress management is a key issue for many Nordic golf facilities. A warmer climate gives us a new type of winter damages caused by melting water and ice cover. Ice damages could delay the opening of the golf course by more than 4 weeks which equals a cost of about 400 -600 000 SEK per year. The overall aim of the ICE-BREAKER project was to obtain a better understanding and improve strategies to prevent and repair damage caused by prolonged ice cover and meltwater on golf courses and other grasslands. Read the final report! 

 Revised fact sheet
– Turfgrass spring stresses‍

In this fact sheet, we discuss what happens in the spring when plants start to grow after a long winter. New results indicate that photoinhibition and oxidative stress in plant cells can be a contributing factor to winter and early spring kill. Such stresses are due to the combination of strong sunlight and low temperature when the grass emerges after snow and/ or ice melt.

Find the latest knowledge regarding spring stress and the difficult transition into a new growing season. So far there are updated fact sheets in English, Swedish, Norwegian and Finnish. To Fact Sheet

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STERF (Scandinavian Turfgrass and Environment Research Foundation). It is the Nordic golf federations’ joint research body. supplies new knowledge that is essential for modern golf course management, knowledge that is of practical benefit and ready for use, for example directly on golf courses.‍‍

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