Do you have red leaf spot?

According to Dr. Richard Buckley the Director of the Plant Diagnostic Lab at New Jersey's Rutgers University, the answer is — probably not. Caused by the fungus Drechslera erythrospila, red leaf spot is a disease on bentgrass greens that is actually very rarely encountered.

A fungus that causes almost the same symptoms (oval-shaped, reddish leaf spots and rotten crowns on individual plants, and an overall general thinning of the turf ), Bipolaris sorokiniana, is much more common, according to Buckley.…