Sports and Recreation Turf is one of the newest and most rapidly expanding branches of today's landscape industry. Future career opportunities in this field are projected to continue to grow. Students enrolled in this one-credit course participate in hands-on activities in the areas of careers; safety; turfgrass identification, classification, and selection (warm, cool, and transitional); turfgrass growth and the environment; turfgrass establishment; turfgrass renovation; turfgrass management and fertilization; types of sports fields management; golf course management; turfgrass pest management; pesticide application (insects, diseases, weeds); turfgrass drainage and irrigation systems; turfgrass tool and equipment identification; maintenance of tools and machinery; and business management skills.