Video: the Tour de Fungus

Every November, an "experience group" of greenkeepers go on the Tour de Fungus near Copenhagen, Denmark. Why this name for the tour? Well, November is typically a good time to see some turfgrass diseases (such as Microdochium nivale) on golf courses there. And these greenkeepers are trying to find techniques to produce playing surfaces without pesticides.

This video introduces the tour and shows some of the measurements made each year. The environmental conditions, the playing conditions, the species composition of…