#DollarSpot April 25

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Walking eighteen holes of golf educated me on DOLLAR SPOT.

Each morning as my pull cart meanders across the fairway, I notice tiny spiderwebs embedded in the morning dew. Here is what they look like.

My playing partners were all stumped on what it was. We had a variety of guesses including some type of small spider trapping ground crawling insects. WRONG!

FAQ about Dollar Spot

Those spider webs in the dew are actually Dollar Spot Fungus. It is a fungal disease that affects turfgrass, causing small, circular patches of bleached grass.

1. Dollar spot fungus is caused by two species of fungi: Sclerotinia homoeocarpa and Clarireedia jacksonii.
2. The disease gets its name from the small, silver-dollar-sized spots it creates on turfgrass, which can merge together to form larger patches.
3. Dollar spot fungus is most commonly found on fine-textured turfgrass species like bentgrass and fescue, but it can also affect Bermuda grass and zoysia grass in warmer regions.

One last thing I haven’t seen too much of this in the woods or deep rough where many of my golf shots land.

Treatment

Fungicide applications can be used to prevent or treat the disease, depending on the severity of the outbreak. Fungicides with active ingredients like azoxystrobin, fluoxastrobin, and propiconazole are commonly used to control Dollar Spot Fungus on golf courses.