1. The nature of summer stresses -- 2. Cultural practices for summer stress management -- 3. Selected abiotic and imperfectly understood maladies of creeping bentgrass -- 4. Selected creeping bentgrass diseases and pathogens -- 5. Biological approaches to turf disease management -- 6. Understanding modern turf fungicides -- 7. Herbicides for creeping bentgrass -- 8. Use of plant growth regulators on creeping bentgrass -- 9. Renovation -- 10. Selected invertebrate pests.