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On closely cut turf like golf courses, the dollar spot appears as circular, brown to light-brown embedded spots about the size of a silver dollar. In coarser grasses like St. Augustine, maintained at taller cutting heights, the dead spots are larger and less symmetrical, and can be confused with brown patch. Dollar spot can be distinguished by lesions on the leaf blades along the borders of infected areas. The lesions are typically gray or brown int he center with reddish-brown borders. Read more »

Brown Patch is most common to Bermuda and St. Augustine grass throughout Florida.   Brown patch commonly starts as a small spot and can quickly spread outwards in a circular or horseshoe pattern up to a couple of feet wide. Often times, while expanding outwards, the inside of the circle will recover, leaving the brown areas resembling a smoke-ring, or multiple smoke rings as it expands.