Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Sod replacement/bermuda eradication program

I spent the late afternoon/early evening out on the golf course marking some areas for zoysia sod replacement over the next few days/weeks.  Most of the areas were weakened by our bermuda eradication treatments over the past year but some areas were caused by cold weather we experienced this past winter. 

The picture below is along the right side intermediate of Hole #13.


We will be making some spot treatments of our bermuda eradication spray over the next week to reduce some bermuda encroachment of on holes #4, 7, 8 and 13 which are trying to regenerate from earlier applications.  These four holes have been in the program since the fall of 2008.  We will also do some spot treatment on some bermuda zoysia areas that have an abundance of zoysia in the spot so we are not facing large patches of dead and or dying turf going into the middle of summer.

Ty McClellan who is our USGA Mid-Continent agronomist sent out a letter regarding some zoysia decline he was seeing in the St. Louis area.  Most of this was occurring on public facilities that allow winter cart traffic but some of the information discussed also can applied to private clubs like Glen Echo.

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