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Content Type:Q & A
Corporate Author(s):USGA Green Section
Title:Effect and treatment of ice and snow covering greens
Section:Questions and answers
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Source:The Bulletin of the United States Golf Association Green Section. Vol. 9, No. 4, April 1929, p. 79.
Publishing Information:Washington, DC: USGA Green Section
# of Pages:1
Question:"About 9 of our creeping bent greens are covered all over with from 2 to 3 inches of solid ice with about 7 inches of snow on top of the ice. Will this be injurious to the grass, and if so what treatment would you suggest?"
Source of Question:Illinois
Answer/Response:"The formation of 2 to 3 inches of solid ice on your greens would of course occur only under exceptional conditions unless the ice were the result of slush forming from a covering of snow. If your greens have adequate surface drainage and subdrainage you need have no worry when the spring thaws arrive. Most injury to turf that is blamed on ice is due to alternate freezing and thawing in the spring, especially when the drainage is not perfect and the ground remains saturated. There is nothing much you can do now unless you find it possible to assist in getting the surface water off the greens as quickly as possible after each thaw. Sometimes banks of snow or slush at certain points prevent the escape of water resulting from the melting of the ice. In such cases a little work with a shovel may assist the escape of water from the green. It is also sometimes possible to deflect water from melting snow or ice from running onto a green."
Keywords:TIC Keywords: Drainage; Golf greens; Ice cover; Ice injury; Recommendations
Language:English
References:0
ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
USGA Green Section. 1929. Effect and treatment of ice and snow covering greens. Bull. U.S. Golf Assoc. Green Sec. 9(4):p. 79.
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