Scott,
You got me back in when i said I was finished but you seem to be intelligent and have the capability of not taking anything personnel. I agree with everything you have said and it is very well said and I agree with your paragraph about supers..100%. And yes I was kidding when I said Kill all the bent and plant Bermuda, your snap shot vs the whole pictures says it beautifully. A couple of comments, not sure if this year in the DFW area should be classified as a royal straight flush, for me every summer there is at least three of kind and this summer probably four of kinds. Trying to grow bent out of its ideal conditions such as in the DFW area, it is normal to lose some grass, a patch here, a patch there, a greens situated in a pocket surround by big trees, shaded areas, high traffic areas where you enter and exit the green. So yes, I am aware that heat and weather play a huge role as you stated. I don´t know the circumstances that lead to closing of this particular club and never claimed to know, what I simply stated as is that if all the greens died, I am more inclined to believe there are other factors combined with the huge role of weather and if its not weather, than its either human error or vandelism. Human error takes into account so many factors and should not be confused with superintendent error, as superintendent error is only one factor in the broad catagory of human error. I have seen so many examples where the turf is stressed to the max and a small human error becomes the straw that breaks the camels back and massive turf is lost and most of the time its not superintendent error. There are examples and exceptions to this of course and therefore I also agree I made a huge mistake by making this comment without further knowledge of the details. For example, the greens could have been new and not had sufficient thatch build up. That will lead to a higher surface temperature than other course in the areas that have this thatch accumulated acting as an insulator. The areas is acceptable to localized down pours, which I witness last week as I was in the area. So, if there was little thatch and the surface was hotter without thatch protection and then an inch or half an inch or rain fell in ten minutes followed by extreme heat again, you could get a boiling or steaming effect and do nothing but wave them good bye. This is one example where weather could be totally to blame. I could give you fifty other examples where it was weather combined with human error but thats not important. What is important is that there does exsist conditions where the weather could be held one hundred percent responsible so it would have been better not to make any comments at all that could be misinturpetated as they were. Bent should be able to handle 20 days and more of 100 plus degree air temperatures and has being do for years in the dfw area, surrviving but not thriving, but like everything there are specific cases and circumstances where exceptions are found.