I'm bringing this up from a place of real ignorance. I've been thinking a bit about the poa issues at Bandon, and I've got a question for the course designers here. Forgetting what clients want, can you design for different styles of grass that would eventually consume a site anyway? There is always talk about regrassing Riv, but that seems like a fools errand to me because I assume the kikuyu would reassert itself within a decade.
Is it possible to build contours to better suit the dominate grasses, or is it actually ever practical to just entirely regrass a site? Steeper runouts for sticky grasses like kikuyu, slower greens with longer poa to smooth out the bumps or even match play courses on poa sites to reduce the need to putt out short putts. I've heard a bit about buffalograss for dry areas, but have no idea how it plays.
Do course builders have a real idea of which types of grasses will eventually overtake a site, or is it just chance? Are there any technology enhancements happening now to make this concern moot, because I presume someone like Toro will soon add machine learning lasers in their mowers to kill weeds as they mow.
I guess what I'm asking is whether it's prudent to embrace the terroir on a site, even if that means less-in-demand turf, or if that isn't as much of a concern.