Pat,
Many supts with the ultradwarf greens will spend the night of a hard freeze spraying water on their greens to coat them with a layer of ice....It happened a lot down here in the last few weeks.
Mike,
How do you think those greens would fare if the ice remained on them for most of the winter ?
No one's talking about an evening of ice, rather a layer of ice that's on the greens for a prolonged period of time.
Based upon the videos of Georgians/Atlantans driving in wintry conditions, I think you'll have to cede experience with ice to those of us North of the Mason-Dixon line, on and off the golf course.
Pat,
the thread is about ice at ANGC.
You say "no one's talking about an evening of ice"
Actually, everyone on the thread is talking about exactly that.
ANGC is located in Augusta, GA, hence the name-and hence the thread title.
So ice in Augusta, on the greens will not hurt them because it will be gone in a day or two, and according to Mike Young that's often done in the south intentionally to insulate the grass, as well as often done by orange growers in Florida.
You say "snow can insulate, but not ice"
When they spray their greens and orange trees, what exactly do you think forms?
Ice!!!-which insulates for a day or two while they wait for temps to return to normal.
Having ice on your greens all winter may well damage your greens in NJ or NY-that's not the case in GA as it doesn't happen.
Stick to New Jersey..,, or at least to a thread about NJ.
Not sure Seminole's ever had ice on their greens so perhaps we can work Pine Valley or NGLA into the conversation
and those idiots you saw sliding around on the ice in Atlanta during the last freezing ran event weren't from the south, the southerners were comfortably inside sipping warm adult beverages .
They were all transplanted northerners
;)saying "2 inches is no big deal-we can drive in our BMW's and Lincolns".
They call those DAMN Yankess
-they come to visit and never leave.
Putting on the green ink rainsuit...