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| Content Type: | Q & A |
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| Corporate Author(s): | USGA Green Section |
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| Title: | Improving thin stands on fairways |
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| Section: | Questions and answers
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| Source: | The Bulletin of the United States Golf Association Green Section. Vol. 5, No. 9, September 1925, p. 212-213. |
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| Publishing Information: | Washington, DC: USGA Green Section |
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| # of Pages: | 2 |
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| Question: | "Our fairways are badly cupped on certain holes owing to rain, wind, and hailstones. The grass growth is very sparse. We are topdressing with old rotted cow manure, using a light drag, and so filling the cups, and then rolling with a light horse roller. We are not harrowing, for fear of uprooting the present grasses. In the spring it would be possible to use a sharp knife harrow that would cut and not tear the soil. Do you think we will gain any great benefit from the manure in the way of having the present grasses spread? Also would you advise seeding with Kentucky bluegrass, redtop, and clover in the spring, then dragging with a chain harrow to cover the seed, and lightly rolling? Where our fairways have been slightly cultivated and seeded we have obtained a fair catch of grass, with only two rains to cause germination and growth. We have no watering system for use on our fairways, but expect to install one." |
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| Source of Question: | Alberta |
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| Answer/Response: | "We doubt whether you can do more to improve your fairways than to fertilize them with well-rotted manure, or with bone-meal, in the way you have been doing. We do not believe you will obtain any improvement from the use of a harrow on your fairways. We have tried harrows under similar conditions and they have not been at all helpful in thicking up turf. Fertilizers of this character however do help materially, especially if applied in the winter and early spring, so that their effective principles may be available for the turf during the growing season. We are confident it would be a waste of money for you to attempt to thicken up the turf of your fairways by sowing bluegrass and other species of grasses before you have installed an adequate watering system for your fairways. If however you can provide adequate water for your fairways, it would be well to seed the thin spots in the early fall or late summer with a mixture of bluegrass, redtop, and white clover. Be sure to roll your fairways once in the spring after the frost is out of the ground." |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Fertilizer recommendations; Golf fairway maintenance; Golf fairway surface; Harrowing; Manures; Recommendations; Topdressing program
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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. 1925. Improving thin stands on fairways. Bull. U.S. Golf Assoc. Green Sec. 5(9):p. 212-213. |
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