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| Publication Type:
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| Content Type: | Q & A |
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| Corporate Author(s): | Sports Turf Research Institute |
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| Title: | Spreading wear on a bowling green |
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| Section: | Enquiries and replies
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| Source: | Journal of the Sports Turf Research Institute. Vol. 70, 1994, p. 146. |
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| Publishing Information: | Bingley, West Yorkshire, UK: The Sports Turf Research Institute |
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| # of Pages: | 1 |
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| Question: | "Every year I try and move the bowlers around the flat green as much as I can. Every year I get the same people moaning that they cannot find a length or that the bowls do not take the bias. By mid-season, every year, I have to admit defeat and let them play on favoured rinks which draw to the jack as people like. Can you back up my wish to avoid excessive wear and tear, particularly along rink ends which involves so much time, effort and cost to repair each autumn." |
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| Answer/Response: | "It will come as no surprise to you that the question of spreading play on a bowling green is one of the most frequent to which we have to reply. Although a flat green should, in theory, have perfect levels giving an identical playing surface wherever bowled upon, there are contours through every green in the country. The flattest greens may not have much deviation in level through the playing area, but there will always be a slope across a green and however slight, this can affect the draw to certain rinks. This is particularly true of the outer rinks and the favoured rinks on most greens are the central ones where the effects of a slope will be at its least. Although we can appreciate why bowlers prefer certain rinks within a green, we must stress that concentrated play scours turf and creates runs across the green. Unless play is spread as evenly as possible over the playing surface, any natural deviation to a true level will be exaggerated by wear runs. Once a run is created, the bowl will not draw properly along that rink unless its path exactly coincides with the groove. The same is true if play is turned through 90° and this discourages movement across the green. As a consequence, once runs are produced and favoured rinks played without respite, severe concentrated wear patterns are produced across the green, giving a very poor playing surface come late summer when the finals of competitions will be played. It is therefore, to the bowlers benefit to move regularly. The conventional approach to moving play on a bowling green is to have three marks per rink, but this can concentrate play within a rinks width. If the greenkeeper has the time it may be best to have no specific marks, simply moving the strings across each rink, say, a foot at a time. Daily movement to either pattern is advised and the direction of play must be shifted round 90° at least weekly." |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Bowling greens; Player preferences; Recommendations; Sports turf maintenance; Traffic control; Traffic damage
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 0 |
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
Sports Turf Research Institute. 1994. Spreading wear on a bowling green. J. Turfgrass Sports Surf. Sci. 70:p. 146. |
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