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Content Type:Q & A
Corporate Author(s):USGA Green Section
Title:Selecting a grass for new putting greens
Section:Questions and answers
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Source:The Bulletin of the United States Golf Association Green Section. Vol. 11, No. 6, June 1931, p. 134.
Publishing Information:Washington, DC: USGA Green Section
# of Pages:1
Question:"We are now ready to plant putting greens on our new course and naturally want to select the grass that will give us the best quality. The course has been provided with excellent drainage."
Source of Question:Indiana
Answer/Response:"After many years of testing and observing putting green grasses we have been unable to find any best grass suitable for the purpose. For your locality either creeping bent planted with the stolons or bent planted with seed should be satisfactory. There is much discussion among golfers as to which of these two kinds of turf is preferable. The matter is doubtless very largely one of personal preference. Some grasses which produce very attractive putting green turf are very difficult to maintain, and for that reason are frequently considered undesirable. You will find a rating of putting green grasses from 12 demonstration turf gardens, based on observations during the season of 1929, on page 218 of the Bulletin for December, 1929, and the ratings there given are very much like ratings we have received from other turf gardens over a period of years. Grasses we regard as satisfactory are the Washington and Metropolitan strains of creeping bent planted by the stolon method, and seaside creeping bent, German mixed bent, or colonial bent planted from seed. German bent is very largely colonial bent but with a trace of velvet bent, which adds to its attractiveness for putting greens. Our recommendation to those contemplating planting putting greens is that they visit their nearest demonstration turf garden cooperating with the Green Section, where they may examine the various putting green grasses growing side by side under putting green conditions and thus draw their own conclusions. A list of these demonstration turf gardens is given on page 213 of the Bulletin for December, 1929. There are also available for this purpose the demonstration plots on the experimental turf gardens maintained directly by the Green Section, namely the Arlington turf garden at Washington, D. C., and our Mid-West turf garden at Everett, Ill., near Chicago."
Keywords:TIC Keywords: Agrostis stolonifera; Choice of species; Cultivar recommendations; Golf green establishment
Language:English
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See Also:See also related article "Demonstration turf garden reports: Summary of reports from tweleve gardens for 1929 season" The Bulletin of the United States Golf Assiociation Green Section, 9(12), December 1929 p. 210-221 R=35697 R=35697
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USGA Green Section. 1931. Selecting a grass for new putting greens. Bull. U.S. Golf Assoc. Green Sec. 11(6):p. 134.
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