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| Content Type: | Q & A |
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| Corporate Author(s): | USGA Green Section |
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| Title: | Prevention of spongy condition of creeping bent turf; effect of height of cut on disease |
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| Section: | Questions and answers
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| Source: | The Bulletin of the United States Golf Association Green Section. Vol. 10, No. 8, August 1930, p. 156. |
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| Publishing Information: | Washington, DC: USGA Green Section |
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| # of Pages: | 1 |
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| Question: | "We have heard that it is necessary to allow our Metropolitan bent on the putting greens to remain long during brown-patch weather. If we do this we find it becomes spongy and soon presents a poor putting surface. How should we care for the greens in this respect in order to get the most satisfaction from them?" |
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| Source of Question: | Pennsylvania |
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| Answer/Response: | "The Metropolitan strain of creeping bent is a fast, vigorous grower, and in order to provide a good putting surface with this grass it is necessary to make every effort to keep it from developing too much surface growth consisting of long blades and intertwined stolons. Metropolitan bent seems to require less fertilizer than Washington or other well-known strains of creeping bent. Regular close cutting is necessary. The mower should be set as low as possible without scalping the high spots. If the green is so bumpy that close cutting scalps high spots these areas should be removed or made less prominent by dragging top-dressing into the low spots. Metropolitan bent will in time develop considerable depth of nap with accompanying spongy condition in spite of close cutting. When this condition occurs the greens should be raked severely with sharp-tined rakes and then mowed close. This procedure should be repeated until most of the surface growth has been removed. The greens will look badly after such treatment, but if they are top-dressed immediately and lightly fertilized the fine, new growth will quickly restore them to normal appearance and they will again have a true, firm putting surface. We have never had satisfactory evidence that bent on putting greens becomes less susceptible to large or small brown-patch by increasing the height of cut. However, in the case of the Virginia strain of creeping bent, which is susceptible to leaf-spot, we have noticed that the leafspot does less damage when the turf is kept longer; also annual bluegrass (Poa annua) is more liable to withstand the extremes of summer if left longer. Since Metropolitan bent is not susceptible to leaf-spot we see no reason why it should be allowed to grow longer in the summer. On our turf gardens we cut it as close as possible even during hot weather in order to provide good putting turf at all times. By proper attention to fertilizing, watering, and application of fungicides it can be maintained in a healthy condition when kept cut extremely short." |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Agrostis stolonifera; Control methods; Disease control; Golf green maintenance; Recommendations; Rhizoctonia blight
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| Cultivar Names: | Metropolitan |
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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):
USGA Green Section. 1930. Prevention of spongy condition of creeping bent turf; effect of height of cut on disease. Bull. U.S. Golf Assoc. Green Sec. 10(8):p. 156. |
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