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| Author(s): | Anonymous |
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| Title: | Choose a mixture right for the job |
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| Source: | Parks, Golf Courses & Sports Grounds. Vol. 56, No. 9, June 1991, p. 32-33. |
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| Publishing Information: | London, England: Clarke and Hunter Ltd. |
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| # of Pages: | 2 |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Seeds; Golf greens; Golf tees; Golf fairways; Golf rough; Festuca rubra; Festuca rubra subsp. commutata; Festuca rubra subsp. rubra; Agrostis tenuis; Agrostis castellana; Sports turf
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| Abstract/Contents: | The golf green is the focus of play and the tending of greens is the test of the skill, art, and ability of a greenskeeper and his staff. An important part of his skill is in choosing the best turfgrasses. The greenskeeper in Briton is faced with three options. (1) The traditional mix consisting of 70% Chewings fescue and 30% browntop. Johnson Seeds offers an 80:20 mixture (JG61), with the bentgrass divided into a blend of the winter-green Highland and the highly rated browntop cultivar Egmont. (2) The standard formulation can be modified with the introduction of slender red fescues and an equal proportion of Chewings fescue. (3) The pure bentgrass option. It is the preferred turfgrass on golf greens in America. American contractors and designers have introduced this concept to the UK and hence a demand has grown for a pure bentgrass sward. On golf tees the problem is to provide adequate ground cover despite mowing and punishing levels of wear. The best wear characteristics can be achieved by using moderately fine leaved, strongly rhizomatous grasses supported by diligent management. Such an grass would be Johnsons' JG63 based on smooth meadowgrass with red fescues and browntop bent. On the fairways the problem is to provide an attractive low maintenance turf which is resistant to disease and drought, and gives a durable playing surface. One solution is to use a mixture comprising creeping red fescues and browntop, such as Johnsons' JG64. An alternative is a mixture that contains smooth meadowgrass (like JG63 mentioned above). It possesses vigorous rhizomes like the fescues and bent but it can be more difficult to establish and must be included in proportions of not less than 20% to be effective. The rough is ideally a low maintenance region that should reflect the character of a parkland, heath or moorland. Traditionally the mixture consisted of a mixture of the various red, sheeps, and hard fescues, bentgrass and smooth meadowgrass, but recently this prescription has included broad leaf species, the so-called perennial wild flowers. The turf for a winter games pitch (for soccer and rugby) must be hard wearing even under the most unfavorable conditions. Practical trials have shown that there are few species and cultivars capable of performing up to this standard of resilience. New perennial ryegrass cultivars, bred for their dense prostrate growth habit and high tillering capacity to enable them to withstand a tremendous amount of wear, are now available. It is also important that the grass have the capacity to grow back and recover from any damage that may be sustained. Perennial ryegrasses are outstanding in this respect, growing well into late autumn, and beginning growth again in the early spring. These turf perennials can be used alone, but there are those who like a little "bottom" in their sward and a percentage of slender creeping red fescue can be desirable as this species thrives on a wide range of soil types. The mixtures offered by Mommersteg for winter games pitches include MM25 and MM60. |
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 0 |
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| See Also: | Other items relating to: Fine Fescue Fairways |
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| Note: | The article is based on information supplied by Johnsons Seeds and Mommersteeg.
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
Anonymous. 1991. Choose a mixture right for the job. Parks Golf Courses Sports Grounds. 56(9):p. 32-33. |
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