{"id":782,"date":"2014-09-09T23:44:19","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T03:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=782"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:15:21","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:15:21","slug":"game-of-golf-adapts-to-changing-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2014\/09\/game-of-golf-adapts-to-changing-climate\/","title":{"rendered":"Game of golf adapts to changing climate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientific American posted an article recently describing how golf course managers are adapting to changing climates by picking different varieties of turf grasses that are more resilient to warmer temperatures. \u00a0The article points out that as far back as the 1970&#8217;s the USGA recognized that growing excellent turf grass with less water (more resistant to drought) was the wave of the future. \u00a0You can read the story by clicking <a title=\"Golf and global warming\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/how-the-game-of-golf-adapts-to-global-warming\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Even though the story focuses on the &#8220;library&#8221; of turf grasses that has been developed at Rutgers University in New Jersey, don&#8217;t forget that UGA has an excellent turf grass program as well, with many varieties better adapted to use in a warm climate. \u00a0You can find out more about the UGA program at these links:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"UGA turf grass commodities\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commodities.caes.uga.edu\/turfgrass\/georgiaturf\/index\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.commodities.caes.uga.edu\/turfgrass\/georgiaturf\/index\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Extension turf grass page\" href=\"https:\/\/extension.uga.edu\/agriculture\/turfgrass\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/extension.uga.edu\/agriculture\/turfgrass\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientific American posted an article recently describing how golf course managers are adapting to changing climates by picking different varieties of turf grasses that are more resilient to warmer temperatures. \u00a0The article points out that as far back as the 1970&#8217;s the USGA recognized that growing excellent turf grass with less water (more resistant to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22790,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions\/22790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}