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| Content Type: | Q & A |
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| Corporate Author(s): | USGA Green Section |
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| Title: | Ridding greens of coarse Bermuda grass |
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| Section: | Questions and answers
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| Source: | The Bulletin of the United States Golf Association Green Section. Vol. 9, No. 11, November 1929, p. 206. |
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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 been using in our summer greens for many years Bermuda grass grown from Arizona seed. It has been satisfactory except that some coarse Bermuda grass persists, which was doubtless introduced when the greens were first planted. We seed our greens each summer with the new fine strain of Bermuda grass but are unable to rid the greens of the old coarse strain. In several of our greens other grasses have become mixed with the coarse Bermuda and seem to make it a little finer and softer and better suited for putting purposes, by restricting its growth. Is it advisable to attempt to introduce bluegrass or some other grass into our greens in order to keep the Bermuda turf fine in texture?" |
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| Source of Question: | North Carolina |
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| Answer/Response: | "Practically all of the Bermuda grass seed on the market is grown in Arizona. It is true that considerable seed of the fine-textured Bermuda grass is produced in Arizona, but since Arizona Bermuda grass is not uniformly fine a considerable proportion of the Arizona seed is likely to be from the coarser strains. It would appear from this fact and the fact that you are seeding your greens each summer, that you are introducing some coarse Bermuda on the greens each year. It is probable that the proportion of fine strains is increasing; but since a considerable part of the Bermuda dies out each winter you are likely to introduce some coarse Bermuda with each seeding. It is also possible that some coarser strains can survive the winter better than some of the finer strains. We believe the best method of producing a uniformly fine Bermuda turf on all the greens of a southern golf course is the planting of stolons of selected fine strains of Bermuda grass in the same manner in which selected strains of bent grass are introduced into northern greens. A nursery of these fine strains can be established by selection of fine strains already in the greens. The greens can be planted each summer in the vegetative manner by scattering on the greens stolons cut from the nursery, and then top-dressing. In this manner nothing but the fine selected strains would be introduced on the greens. We know of nothing better than the fine strains of Bermuda grass for summer greens in your locality, unless it be creeping bent grass. Several courses in Virginia and North Carolina have all or some of their putting greens in the Washington or Metropolitan strain of bent grass, and it might be well for you also to tryout one of these bent strains on your greens in view of the success appearing to result from their use under conditions very similar to yours." |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Bermudagrass control; Control methods; Conversion; Golf green maintenance; Recommendations
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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. 1929. Ridding greens of coarse Bermuda grass. Bull. U.S. Golf Assoc. Green Sec. 9(11):p. 206. |
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