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Originally Posted by lawgolfer
Let's all agree that the greens at all the courses, championship as well as executive, are not good. In some instances, they are horrible. I don't know who to blame; instead, I'm more interested in fixing the problems than fixing the blame.
Before I moved to TV, if someone had told me that there is a problem in growing grass in central Florida, I would have laughed. However, we clearly have a problem in TV.
The USGA has a group of experienced professionals that are available for golf courses to consult with and to make recommendations which range from the variety of grasses, irrigations systems, to maintenance. The Villages would do well to hire the USGA.
I bemoan the disregard many golfers in TV have for the courses, including not filling divots, fixing ball marks, and driving carts where they do not belong. As troubling as the practices of many golfers is, the fact is that these things do not completely destroy greens as is currently happening.
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I wrote to a couple of the email addresses posted here, primarily wondering if a fungus had been the culprit as had been speculated here. Got a surprisingly long response from one of them. The interesting part was this:
"As for Tarpon we are not sure why some of the greens are in worse conditions than others. We have sent soil samples out to check it there is a disease and we have not gotten the results back". I then suggested that sharing his info in a public forum might be a good idea. . .
I lived for many years in a golf community in Savannah. It was standard practice there to overseed those Bermuda greens (and sometimes the fairways) during the dormant periods. I think I just read somewhere that at least some tee boxes here get at least some degree of rye overseeding.
I have no idea whether that is done here on the championships' greens, but pretty certain it isn't on the executives. When I first saw the remaining green patches on those Tarpon Boil greens, it brought to mind overseeded rye, and my initial assumption was that this was a case of overseeding "failing to completely take". IIRC, it looked like those bright green, rye grass-looking patches hadn't been recently mown, either. Pondered some possible reasons for why that might be, but by the time I finished that nine I was mostly just confused.
Are the championship course greens here overseeded in the winter? TIA