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| Content Type: | Q & A |
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| Corporate Author(s): | USGA Green Section |
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| Title: | Putting turf of bluegrass and clover |
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| Section: | Questions and answers
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| Source: | The Bulletin of the United States Golf Association Green Section. Vol. 6, No. 1, January 1926, p. 18. |
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| Publishing Information: | Washington, DC: USGA Green Section |
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| # of Pages: | 1 |
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| Question: | "Our course is located between two rivers. We have a clay soil to contend with, with limestone formation underlying, which gives splendid bluegrass fairways, but we have had poor success indeed in obtaining first-class putting greens. We have tried various grasses for putting greens, such as redtop, fescue, and bent, but none of these grasses seem to thrive in our soil and climate. Last fall we seeded one of our poorest greens to clover, and this year it is one of the best greens on the golf course. Some of our members, however, seem to question the use of clover for putting green purposes, offering the objection that it burns out in midsummer and also gets coarse and stubbly. Do you recommend the use of clover for putting greens? Will clover give first-class results by itself, or should it be mixed with any other grasses?" |
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| Source of Question: | Kentucky |
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| Answer/Response: | "Offhand we do not see how it could be any more difficult to grow bent greens in your locality than it is here at Washington, where we have admirable success either by seeding or by the vegetative method. Redtop always makes poor greens and is not to be recommended except as a temporary expedient. Fescue in our vicinity is not a success and we are sure would not be under your conditions. We should urge you to try, on an experimental plot, further work with the bents, with which it seems to us you ought to succeed. Clover alone makes very slow greens, and we have never been able to keep a patch of pure clover, although we have planted areas vegetatively, but the clover does not hold. Bluegrass and white clover together make a fairly good green, and there is no question whatever that these will succeed with you. They are not of the high type of bent greens, but are satisfactory. We would therefore recommend that you use bluegrass and clover for your greens and continue in an experimental way to work with bent to see if you can make it succeed. Do not attempt to grow greens of clover alone, as we are sure they will not prove satisfactory to you." |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Agrostis alba; Choice of species; Festuca; Golf green maintenance; Poa; Recommendations; Streams; Trifolium
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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. 1926. Putting turf of bluegrass and clover. Bull. U.S. Golf Assoc. Green Sec. 6(1):p. 18. |
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