Fertilizer burned greens?

[Fat Slice]

Harding Park in San Francisco (host of the next President's Cup) has some temporary greens now, as the grounds crew burned up five greens with 'excessive fertilizer.' Have you ever heard of this? I'd be pretty upset if I played there...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...SPGV193CHG.DTL

[iacas]

Yeah, I've heard of it. I've burned out a few spots in my yard with extra fertilizer.

[bIGwIRE]

I've seen a neighbor burn stripes into her yard. She had one of those push spreaders and let it overlap too much. She tried to put extra water on it when she noticed, but it was a little out of reach at that point.

You would think a grounds crew would have this down, though. I'll bet somebody got reamed.

[uttexas]

this can happen pretty easily with synthetic fertilizers.

On my lawn, I use organic fertilizer:
this is the best product I've used http://www.garden-ville.com/4429729_36600.htm

also add some green sand (for iron) and epsom salts for magnesium

[RemyM]

Still not as bad as this.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ler-water.html

[edingc]

An Arnold Palmer signature course by my house had this happen to them as well. They lost a couple big and expensive outings because the greens were in such rough shape.

[alf174]

An Arnold Palmer signature course by my house had this happen to them as well. They lost a couple big and expensive outings because the greens were in such rough shape.

curious, which one?

[edingc]

The Ravines in Saugatuck.

About 10 minutes south of Holland.

I played their once this summer before the greens were messed up. Nice course, but really expensive when there are many other good courses in the area.

[Hitman]

The local course I play last year had very bad problem's and depending on who you talk to it was over fertilizer, doubled up in one night or Round-up mixed it but they lost 2 fairways....to the dirt, 5-6 colars around the greens and one green from a mower dragging what ever it was back and fourth. The sad thing is 3-4 of the colars around the greens still show signs of this with bare dirt in patchy spots.

[Jay-Bird]

It happens. Maintenance crews spread fertilizer over dry grass, then it rains and the little nitrogen pellets stick to the grass blades and it burns the grass. It'll recover.

[Fat Slice]

It happens. Maintenance crews spread fertilizer over dry grass, then it rains and the little nitrogen pellets stick to the grass blades and it burns the grass. It'll recover.

OK, that makes sense. Only it didn't rain here...

[WUTiger]

Another problem which plagues greens is leaking transmission fluid from the lawnmower. This will put an ugly stripe across the green for a couple of weeks, and can deflect you put if you have to cross it.

[alf174]

One of my local courses asks golfers to spray mosquito repellent while on the cart path. They claim it kills the grass on the greens so they give out the repellent towelettes for free.

[RemyM]

Another problem which plagues greens is leaking transmission fluid from the lawnmower. This will put an ugly stripe across the green for a couple of weeks, and can deflect you put if you have to cross it.

That's actually hydraulic fluid that leaks.