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Content Type:Q & A
Corporate Author(s):USGA Green Section
Title:Winter greens in the South
Section:Questions and answers
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Source:The Bulletin of the United States Golf Association Green Section. Vol. 9, No. 9, September 1929, p. 166.
Publishing Information:Washington, DC: USGA Green Section
# of Pages:1
Question:"What appears to be the customary method of providing winter putting turf in this section?"
Source of Question:North Carolina
Answer/Response:"Bermuda grass is the chief grass for both fairways and greens from southern Virginia southward, although Kentucky bluegrass does appear in the fall on the heavier soils of North Carolina and will form fair winter turf if fertilized in the fall. In the summer Bermuda grass and crab grass are the predominant turf grasses. The crab grass will displace the Bermuda if the latter is not occasionally fertilized. The Bermuda turf on putting greens is used from April or May until the latter part of October. On the first of October the custom is to skin the Bermuda grass off half or all of each green by means of sharp hoes. The area thus prepared usually is then sown with Italian or domestic-grown rye grass. The rate of seeding is fairly heavy, usually amounting to as much as 30 pounds to 1,000 square feet. Rye grass quickly establishes itself and gives a fair winter putting surface. The growing of rye grass in the winter however usually injures the Bermuda grass, which becomes weaker each year. For that reason on many courses only half of the green is used in the winter. Those clubs that use the whole green reseed with Bermuda grass in early spring."
Keywords:TIC Keywords: Choice of species; Climatic factors; Cynodon; Digitaria; Golf green construction; Lolium; Poa pratensis; Recommendations; Regional variation; Temporary greens
Geographic Terms:Southern United States
Language:English
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USGA Green Section. 1929. Winter greens in the South. Bull. U.S. Golf Assoc. Green Sec. 9(9):p. 166.
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