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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: | Golf green watering |
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| Section: | Enquiries and replies
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| Source: | Journal of the Sports Turf Research Institute. Vol. 66, 1990, p. 185-186. |
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| Publishing Information: | Bingley, West Yorkshire, UK: The Sports Turf Research Institute |
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| # of Pages: | 2 |
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| Question: | "In response to the drought we set our automatic watering system to thoroughly soak the greens every other night. Despite this we have still lost grass cover from high spots and green perimeters. Do we need a new watering system or is there a cheaper alternative to retaining a better cover through long dry spells?" |
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| Answer/Response: | " No automatic watering system will guarantee even distribution of water. Even if water is applied evenly it will run-off high spots, providing more to low areas. Compacted areas can occur on greens due to foot traffic and machinery and this compaction can reduce water percolation and increase water run-off. An additional problem this summer was high rates of evaporation and high temperatures scorching out grass as much as droughting it out. There can be no doubt that those clubs who started watering early in the dry spell were able to maintain an even moisture gradient through the soil profile, keeping the moisture topped up to nearly moist but no more. Those delaying watering found that drying was so rapid that they immediately faced the major problem of trying to wet-up bone dry thatch/soil. As far as the use of your automatic system was concerned this summer then there may have been value in watering through the night in two light applications rather than one heavy treatment, to reduce run-off from high and/or compacted ground. In order to ensure retention of water on high spots, and other areas suffering from dry patch syndrome, hand watering on a regular basis was a must this summer. In addition, some form of aeration, shallow chisel or solid tining, would have helped promote water penetration from the surface down to the rootzone, as would localised treatments with a suitable wetting agent at 2-4 week intervals." |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Automatic irrigation systems; Golf greens; Irrigation efficiency; Recommendations; Surface runoff
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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. 1990. Golf green watering. J. Turfgrass Sports Surf. Sci. 66:p. 185-186. |
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