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Web URL(s): | https://scisoc.confex.com/scisoc/2018am/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/113664 Last checked: 11/16/2018 Requires: JavaScript |
Publication Type:
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Content Type: | Abstract or Summary only |
Author(s): | Moore, Alec;
Rossi, Frank S. |
Author Affiliation: | Cornell University, Ithaca, NY |
Title: | Effect of human traffic on putting surface performance |
Section: | C05 turfgrass science Other records with the "C05 turfgrass science" Section
Turfgrass science and management: Soil, plant nutrition, and the environment oral Other records with the "Turfgrass science and management: Soil, plant nutrition, and the environment oral" Section
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Meeting Info.: | Baltimore, Maryland: November 4-7, 2018 |
Source: | ASA, CSSA and SSSA International Annual Meetings. 2018, p. 113664. |
Publishing Information: | [Madison, Wisconsin]: [American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Canadian Society of Agronomy] |
# of Pages: | 1 |
Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Data processing; Evaluations; Golf greens; Golf shoes; Surface quality; Traffic damage
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Abstract/Contents: | "Concentrated foot traffic is a significant source of stress for natural turfgrass systems. Downward foot pressure can increase soil bulk density and reduce turfgrass shoot density. Golf putting surface traffic has attempted to be simulated using specialized equipment or with humans moving in a linear walking path or side-stepping. These methods often disregard the unique movement associated with actual traffic patterns, especially localized around the hole location. Concern regarding traffic stress associated with specific golf footwear has increased due to dramatic design changes made to increase traction and stability during a golf swing. An unintended consequence of increasing golf footwear traction and stability has been a perceived increase in foot traffic stress and disruption of playing conditions on putting surfaces. Studies were conducted in 2016 and 2017 to develop a standard method of applying foot traffic associated with playing golf and utilize this method to assess climate, soil, grass type, and the human influence on putting surface performance. A walking pattern designed to impose concentrated foot traffic at known rates and volumes was investigated using multiple human subjects on two different putting surface types during the 2016-17 growing seasons. The experimental method offers a rapid, uniform, quantifiable rate and volume of golf foot traffic at the hole location. Data was collected on key surface performance parameters at the hole location and adjustments in treatments allowed correction for human and footwear influence on surface performance. Putting surface performance at the hole location declined with increasing traffic volumes as a result of reductions in fractional green canopy cover and ball roll distance." |
Language: | English |
References: | 0 |
Note: | This item is an abstract only! "308-2" |
| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete): Moore, A., and F. S. Rossi. 2018. Effect of human traffic on putting surface performance. Agron. Abr. p. 113664. |
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