wils5150

I am not to familar with southern turf. Is it hot enough to germinate bermuda yet?

I am not positive but I remember seeing somewhere a bushel for every 100 sqft

Dont they have a machine you could run over the putting green that would produce sprigs? I wonder if you could do a deep verti-cut to get sprigs

lol blame the superintendent. First of we dont know what strain of bermuda they had to begin with. Older strains can be less hardy than the new ones. I am guessing the went with bent to get fast germination because it wasnt warm enough for bermuda. Correct me if I am wrong ms256. Mother nature is a fickle bitch at time and no superintendent of the amount of money will change that just look at all the damage up here in the Northeast.

nothing wrong with laminate its actually stronger

its not persimmon its a lamenated head. persimmon is a solid block of wood. could have been made by a local club maker.

because he is older and doesnt need the money lol He is really just trying to win majors now and he has had some health issues aswell

poa or annual blue grass is a weed to some people. pretty much every old course has lots of poa unless the regrassed. you can tell poa by the seed heads it produces in the spring. its actually a nice surface to putt on once the seeds go away or are controlled with chemicals. my course is new and all bent yet there is now poa on it. pebble beach's greens are poa but there micro climate is perfect for its survival.

It has happen here in the north east many times. Courses that have Poa usually are the ones that have the damage. Its a combo of crown hydration and no gas exchange due to ice.

no I am not but i understand why it happens. Bunkers gobble up more man hours than any other area on a golf course.One thunderstorm rolls in and I can easily have 40 man hours into fixing them. and I like hitting out of a rock hard bunker And after all it is a hazzard.

A bunker is a hazzard just like water is except you have a chance out of the bunker. Give me rock hard over flurry any day.

we have a outing that a bar runs it funny as hell. I was looking in a bag that had a wooden drive, 2 6 irons couple of other random clubs and a putter stolen from a mini putt putt. Every body in jeans and t-shirts. I was sitting watching the play and had no fewer than 3 woman whip out there boobs. It was a pretty funny day and I saw 3 nice racks lol

have several of them. every greens mower goes out with one. still cant get them all though.

I see several people commenting on ball marks. If the golfers fixed them it wouldnt be a problem, This is more on the golfer than the grounds staff.

Well said!!

it wouldn't be if they moved up to the tee that fits them. so true but in reality it doesn't work because many golfers are offended by this. Can't tell you how many times i have watched a player say I paid my money and will play the tees I want. The result usually is they shoot 120 and say the course stinks lol

costs are getting out of control. for example $1,400 a week for gas (carts + few mowers I have) electric for pump station $700 a month. spraying greens( every 2-3 weeks) $800-??? depending on product. spraying fairways once a month usually $2,000 - ??? depending on product. also when courses shut down for the winter there are bills and salary to be paid but no income. and lets not forget the loss of revenue from a rainy weekend.

its a public course thats very hard. those 2 greens are funky still. main reason was pace of play. I am guessing probably not. Usually when a course has some sort of water ban they have a order of what will be reduced. usually rough then fairways then tees then greens. and if it gets that bad i would hand water greens more. I really hope that brown is the new green takes off. the cost of keeping a course green is going through the roof. I also think a dry, off color course plays way better.

i dont know. seemed every time I was near those greens somebody was putting it down the approach. lol after watching this side show for a month I asked the gm if I could grow it in,

ya I had a couple of greens where the front rolled down into the approach.. I ended up growing them in to approach height after watching balls roll 30-40 feet of the front of the green

You need to get rid of the moss and any weeds you have. then depending how much good grass you have left will determine if you can over seed or have to completely renovate.

while this is also true. Many courses simply do not have the budget to do these thing and/or do not have the grasses to support ultra low mowing heights as well as the topography of the greens complex to support fast greens.

Another angle is many clubs look like they are doing good based on amount of rounds but they have had to discount the price so much they are getting killed because of lack of revenue.

i think it maybe a little different for places that dont play year round or are not a golf destination.

sad thing is most golfers dont know or care that its going on. its part of the reason i get upset on here listening to golfers demands lol