Brandi Merrick 🌈 USGA ⛳️ WolfPack Turf Alum 🐺 Lover of books📚, cats🐱, music🎶, math 👩‍🏫, and above all my family and friends. Views are my own.

Raleigh, NC
Joined December 2018
During the @uswomensopen at Riviera, an outstanding group of women in turf have been volunteering to help prepare the course for championship play, continuing a great tradition that started six years ago 👇

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Take-all root rot can be a serious problem on bermudagrass greens. A solid prevention program is critical because recovery can be very slow once symptoms are visible 👇

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We recently conducted a field study in Arizona that compared several different ways to leach salts from putting green rootzones. Check out the experiment and the interesting results with @whitlark and @TurfMs 👇
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Spray applications are an essential part of golf course maintenance. Let’s take a look at why and how they're done 👇
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If your course has renovations coming up this fall, expect some disruption during the work and try to be patient as new features get established. It takes time to do things right 👇
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It's international Thank a Golf Course Superintendent Day! One of the best ways we can show our appreciation for all they do is by making their job a little easier. Here's a few ideas 👇 #ThankASuper #ThankAGreenkeeper

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Golfers are ready to play when they arrive at a course, but the course wouldn’t be ready for them without a lot of hard work that starts long before the first tee time 👇
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Anyone have a Pythium blight grass sample they can send me? Not looking for dead greens but maybe some active Pythium blight from the rough or small area. Let me know and I can provide shipping instructions. Looking to get a couple of isolates of the pathogen for a project! #research
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Extreme heat and humidity will be affecting a big part of the U.S. this week and golf course superintendents will be playing defense. If you notice some temporary changes in playing conditions, remember that slow grass is better than no grass!
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With the DEACON Management System, you can create hole location sheets for your course like the ones used at the U.S. Open and all USGA championships. Learn more about the power of DEACON 👉 gsshop.usga.org/data-and-too…
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Oakmont is ready!
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It’s fun watching the best golfers in the world compete on courses in peak condition, but it’s important to recognize that championship conditions are not practical to maintain for daily play 👇
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The Women in Turf Team has arrived at @ErinHillsGolf to assist with preparations for the 80th USWO! @SyngentaUS @RainBirdGolf @uswomensopen
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Meet Brian Powell @BpAgronomy, the Green Section's customer success agronomist. He works hard to make sure our customers are having success with the GS3 ball, USGA Moisture Meter, and the DEACON Management System 👇
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Golf course superintendents- please take a few moments to fill out this (short!) survey: z.umn.edu/winter-damage Whether you saw #WinterTurf damage or not, all feedback helps us develop solutions to reduce future winter injury risk. Shares welcome & appreciated! 📸 @MSUTurf
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So happy to have successfully defended my master’s thesis yesterday! These past two years at Virginia Tech have been an absolute blast. In fact, I’ve enjoyed myself so much I’ll be sticking around for even more! Next stop: Ph.D. 🤓🥳🤠
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Elisabeth Kitchin and her colleagues have been walking fairways after dark to research sprayer precision. What did they find out? Hint: the results are encouraging. golfcourseindustry.com/news/…
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Interesting solution for golfer access through a wraparound bunker. Stabilized aggregate "bridge" dusted over with bunker sand @BelleairCC
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We're excited to announce the launch of the new USGA Moisture Meter! It provides precise & consistent data on soil moisture, salinity, and temperature - and it connects directly to the DEACON platform for easy data management. Check it out @GCSAAConference, click to learn more👇

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A single Poa annua plant can produce more than 5,000 seeds!
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