Played Heron this morning in my normal Men's day exec scramble (with fellow TOTVer BarryRX). We had a non-heated debate between us regarding the condition of the greens. For years I've been reading about 1. too much play 2. not enough rain 3. not fixing ball marks et. al.
But we've had at least adequate rainfall for the past two years. The exec's are almost free of golfers from 12:00 to 5:00PM every day. Ball marks don't cause the kind of problems that I see on many of the greens.
At least 6 of the greens today had what I'll refer to as fungus growth issues. At least that is my opinion. And the majority of the problem was in the first 5-6 feet of the edges of the greens. Hardly any 'good' grass in these areas. I know that they closed Southern Star for over a month to try and fix the same type of grass condition.
I'm going to contact golf management to see if I can get a handle on what the issue is. I don't see this too much on the championship greens but the vast majority of execs have issues at this time.
I often play at non-TV courses and a couple of them have switched to champions Bermuda grass. It's almost perfect. I'm wondering if it's time for a switch here.
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