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Old 06-12-2015, 09:22 PM
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Originally Posted by LittleDog View Post
I played Volusia 3 times before they closed it down. I thought that for a new course the conditions were very good. I really don't know why they closed it down. To my untrained eye I thought the course was in great shape.

John
They opened Volusia after spreading an incredible amount of overseed so the course looked great and was playable. But the main grass for the course had not grown in sufficiently. When the overseed started to die off, they had to close it to give the Bermuda a chance to fill and develop at least a minimal base.
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