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| Author(s): | Witteveen, Gordon |
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| Author Affiliation: | Golf Course Superintendant, Board of Trade of Metropolitan Toronto, Woodbridge, Ontario, Canada |
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| Title: | 25 years of mistakes |
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| Meeting Info.: | September 19-22, 1988 |
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| Source: | Proceedings of the 42nd Northwest Turfgrass Conference. Vol. 42, December 1988, p. 44-51. |
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| Publishing Information: | Spokane, WA: Northwest Turfgrass Association |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Turf management; Desiccation; Equipment
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| Abstract/Contents: | Lists 74 mistakes to be avoided in golf course maintenance. "I rebuilt the 12th green. Note how easy it is on this green to putt a ball into the trap. The members were quite upset about this mistake. . . . I also started to experiment with greens covers. We used a furnace filter type material, which when we spread on the greens protects the grass from drying winter winds - Dessication. You will appreciate this is more than 20 years ago. This material is now back in use. Just when the golfers were really anxious be let on the course, we removed the material and . . . . presto - green grass. . . . [It was a mistake] to enlarge a tee by building a retaining wall. The golfers were petrified of falling over the edge or off the tee. We needed a sign to remind them to be careful. Knotweed growing as a row crop. . . . We really had to screw up the nozzles but good to achieve this result. . . . [Another mistake] was the manner in which we used our new bridges as pipe hangers for the water line crossings. The six inch pipes had four 90 degree elbows. It looked impressive but never worked. We repaired it dozens of times until we finally eliminated the elbows. . . . When we next had to cross the river, we buried the pipe deep in the river bed. It is 100 times simpler, much less costly, and has not needed repairs since installation. . . . The p.v.c. swing joint is a total fiasco. The plastic nipples break under the slightest pressure. And, although the arrangement permits easy levelling of the head, under our cold winter conditions frost will snap the head off the joint quite frequently. We have replaced most of our swing joints and now come straight off the pipe and we use galvanized fittings exclusively. . . .'What sort of an unusual mistake had we made this time?' we asked ourselves when this dead streak appeared on the grass one morning. . . . It was the hot air discharge from the air compressor which was used to blow out the watering system." |
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 0 |
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| See Also: | Original version appears in Conference Proceedings of the 54th International Golf Course Conference and Show, 1983, p. 148-155, R=62411. R=62411 |
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
Witteveen, G. 1988. 25 years of mistakes. p. 44-51. In Proceedings of the 42nd Northwest Turfgrass Conference. September 19-22, 1988. Spokane, WA: Northwest Turfgrass Association. |
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