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The new pro at our club decided that since he didn't have an aerator, he'd disk the fairways. He tore the $hit out of them, leaving huge trenches in them that still haven't recovered after 2 months of doing it. He didn't even bother to re-seed them. Anyone ever heard of this before?

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I can only imagine that they look like a Plow field? What an idiot. Reseeding them might have helped, but still, that was a terrible idea.

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The new pro at our club decided that since he didn't have an aerator, he'd disk the fairways. He tore the $hit out of them, leaving huge trenches in them that still haven't recovered after 2 months of doing it. He didn't even bother to re-seed them. Anyone ever heard of this before?

Sounds like it didn't work very well. What's a golf pro doing with lawn equipment anyway? Does the gardener fix slices?

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Picture a plow attached to a tractor only instead of solid plows there is disks that cut thin lines into the ground. They aren't really meant to be used on already grown areas more for when you are trying to get the ground in shape to put down grass seed.
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I cant imagine why youd want to disc the fairways. Its only going to tear them up and make the course unplayable. I could see MAYBE doing it on a brand new course in an attempt to bring more fertile dirt to the surface and make the grass grow quicker but I dont see how youd ever do it to an existing course.

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The new pro at our club decided that since he didn't have an aerator, he'd disk the fairways. He tore the $hit out of them, leaving huge trenches in them that still haven't recovered after 2 months of doing it. He didn't even bother to re-seed them. Anyone ever heard of this before?

not unless he was trying to turn the golf course into a corn field. that was a crazy idea. what's your home course, btw?

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The new pro at our club decided that since he didn't have an aerator, he'd disk the fairways. He tore the $hit out of them, leaving huge trenches in them that still haven't recovered after 2 months of doing it. He didn't even bother to re-seed them. Anyone ever heard of this before?

Absolute retard! (pronounced exactly like in the movie "The Hangover") Having grown up in the wheat fields of Washington State a 6 yo could tell you that wouldn't be a good dea. You would have to harrow or drag the fairways multiple times and then reseed them, not to mention the time and $$$ it would take to make them playable again.

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Only if he's going to plant some corn. WOW, never heard of such a thing!

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Home course is Oak Ridge C.C. About 10-15 years ago it was in the top 5 nine hole courses in Texas... it's been let go just like a fat kid in a doughnut shop. It's STARTING to look like a golf course again, but it's gonna take a lot more time and $$ for that to happen any time soon.

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Is this new pro a Texas A&M; Aggie, or what? Also, what's a pro doing running the greenskeeping operation? Sounds more like an unqualified greenskeeper that you would see up Oklahoma way.

The Okies were great at growing wheat, but often struggled with turfgrass. And that was really weird, because Oklahoma State U. has one of the best turfgrass - greenskeeping programs in the USA. But, a lot of the Okie courses - and even country clubs - didn't want to pay for people with proper credentials and training, and the members suffer accordingly.

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Home course is Oak Ridge C.C. About 10-15 years ago it was in the top 5 nine hole courses in Texas... it's been let go just like a fat kid in a doughnut shop. It's STARTING to look like a golf course again, but it's gonna take a lot more time and $$ for that to happen any time soon.

The fat kid in a donut shop comment made me laugh out loud... Sorry to hear about your course, that does seem really effed up, hope it gets back to normal soon and the pro stays off the tractor

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Plowing fairways with a DISK  LOL ? We need pictures of this.Verticut yes , disking thats Fing awesome lol.

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Originally Posted by clubchamp

Picture a plow attached to a tractor only instead of solid plows there is disks that cut thin lines into the ground. They aren't really meant to be used on already grown areas more for when you are trying to get the ground in shape to put down grass seed.


From your discription out course just did this like a month ago and the fairways were better in like a week. But I believe they were seeding them right after they did this. Dont know if that matters or not.

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The new pro at our club decided that since he didn't have an aerator, he'd disk the fairways. He tore the $hit out of them, leaving huge trenches in them that still haven't recovered after 2 months of doing it. He didn't even bother to re-seed them. Anyone ever heard of this before?

Absolute retard! (pronounced exactly like in the movie "The Hangover") Having grown up in the wheat fields of Washington State a 6 yo could tell you that wouldn't be a good dea. You would have to harrow or drag the fairways multiple times and then reseed them, not to mention the time and $$$ it would take to make them playable again.

+1 on this, I grew up in Eastern Washington also (Walla Walla).  Most places here in the NW don't 'own' an aerator, there is someone that makes the rounds in the area, once in the spring and once in the fall, usually.  Makes finding tee-times tougher in spring and fall, I start calling around to get the 'aeration schedule'.  I don't like to putt on aerated greens, unless there's no other choice.

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