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Professional Content Type: Q & A Corporate Author(s): USGA Green Section Title: Variations in color on greens Section: Our letter boxOther records with the "Our letter box" Section Source: Turf Culture [II]. Vol. 1, No. 3, December 1939, p. 255.# of Pages: 1 Publishing Information: Washington, DC: United States Golf Association, Green Section Question: Our greens are constructed of heavy clay and sand, but there are places where there has been very little sand worked through the heavy clay. When hard frosts come our greens are left spotted in color. Has soil texture anything to do with the way our greens take on this spotted appearance? Source of Question: Ohio Keywords: TIC Keywords: Golf greens ; Low temperature discoloration Answer/Response: The difference in the color of the patches of grass in your greens is probably due to differences in the individual grasses rather than in the soil. Some individual plants are more quickly checked by cold weather than are other plants. Those which continue to grow after the others have become semidormant and give the green a spotted appearance. There are times when a single strain of grass shows these irregularities. This is no doubt due to some soil condition but as yet no one has determined just what these peculiar soil conditions may be. This condition in a single variety is most likely to occur in a heavy poorly drained soil, although it often occurs on an open-textured soil that is well drained. Language: English References: 0 ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science -Like - may be incomplete ): Turf Culture [II].Fastlink to access this record outside TGIF: https://tic.msu.edu/tgif/flink?recno=120805 If there are problems with this record, send us feedback about record 120805 . Choices for finding the above item : Web URL(s): http://gsrpdf.lib.msu.edu/ticpdf.py?file=/1930s/1939/3912254.pdf#page=2 SB 433.25 .C66 Request through your local library's inter-library loan service (bring or send a copy of this TGIF record)
