Wow! Things do go south quickly. To those who obviously don't know it....foreign plants invade. Borne on the swing or as bird poop.
The cost vs. maintenance crew cost...it's gone up. To the poa going dormant = so does the Bermuda on the tee, fairways, approaches and greens. The answer was always overseed with a winter rye. Even the Masters does this to a smaller extent. The Villages Golf quit doing this the year we were short on water in the retention ponds. The overseed was a disaster and the next year they did one Champ course..not real good. So they stopped...and what you see for poor greens, fairways and tees. This is their choice...to our detriment. So what to do? Well you get an intelligent group of perhaps 6 men and women together with cost analysis background. Then you get the financial data from the management of courses cost breakdown and then get the cost for making it look and play better(ie: overseed and enough watering).
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