Dr. Michelle DaCosta Featured in USGA Green Section Podcast
Full text, courtesy of the USGA Green Section Record:
Some of the most skilled "players" in golf are found in the laboratory.
We all enjoy watching the games top players on television. Through years of practice and hard work these individuals have risen to the top of their profession. Many golfers are unaware that there is another group of individuals in the game that have worked every bit as hard and as long to perfect their skills. These "pros" work to improve the course on which the game is played through their scientific knowledge and abilities. If you are a USGA member, you are helping to keep this team at the top of their game.
Dr. Michelle DaCosta is a turfgrass physiologist at the University of Massachusetts. She is one of many top scientists that receive USGA funding for the improvement of turfgrasses for golf courses. Michelle and her colleagues have discovered that some plants develop a compound that acts almost like a "plant antifreeze."
Click the podcast link below to listen to this brief telephone interview in which she describes her work and how she became interested in improving turfgrasses for golf.
