Everybody on this site when talking about maintnenace or different grasses seems to look for black and white answers and there just arenīt any!! There are NO COOK BOOK RECIPIES to follow so why try to invent one!!! Colonial has trouble every summer, temporaries, fan, dollars and more dollars thown at trying to keep them alive and make throguh the Texas summers. Ten miles from there at Squaw Creek golf course they maintains good bent greens year around at least at half the price. Its not the super or the variety of the grass. Its the fact that Colonial is set down low in a river bed and has huge trees and squaw creek has a setting more adapted for the bent. The fans help but it not like natural air movement, kind of like well water is good but no comparrison to a mother nature soft rain. Question for Anthony forner assistant to Colonial, lets play pretend, you are interviewing for super position at Colonial, they just came off a summer and lost seven greens and are considering switching to mini verde and want your opinion, what do you answer? I know I would answers with lots of questions, Whats your priorotiy, good greens for the tournament or good greens for the summer! You can not guarantee great greens year around in that club period, in my opinion! I have seen to many brutal winters where they spend two months buying up every piece of live bermuda sod in the metro plex from winter kill and that is on higher cut bermudas that should have more resistents. Not over seeding and painting would not be a viable option either with the traffic and the tournament in May. If you were smart you would say, tell me what is more important for the club and we will respect that decision and do everything possible to give you the best greens year around but there are no guarentees with either, no matter how much resources you provide me with! Do you agree, Tony??