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Joe_Tucholski

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Re: I was 100% flat dead wrong
« Reply #25 on: July 10, 2012, 02:41:32 PM »
I thought it would be natural to push the very limits of the life of the fairways to ensure firm and fast conditions.  That is where I was wrong.  Matt was somehow able to provide excellent conditions without killing the fairways. 
Fair enough.


If this tournament was held in the spring or fall perhaps you could pooh pooh the efforts of our superintendent, his staff and the powers that made crucial decisions.  It is the fact that under these extreme conditions on bent grass fairways a tournament was held without disruption to member play that I find commendable. 

I didn't intend to pooh pooh anything.  Sorry it came off that way.  I really just wanted to get some clarification on what effects you were expecting.

Doug Siebert

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Re: I was 100% flat dead wrong
« Reply #26 on: July 11, 2012, 12:13:51 AM »
John,

Did they have more people on staff than they normally do?  My understanding has always been that the reason bent grass courses play wet and slow when it is really hot and humid is not because you really need to soak the crap out of the grass to cool it off, just that it is easier to just turn on the sprinklers for a bit than it is to hand water and just give enough to keep the grass cool without soaking it.  Or maybe your club just has enough money for hand watering to be the usual circumstance...

My home course just turns on the sprinklers and overwaters now during such conditions, but I remember when I was in high school they'd have people out hand watering all the greens every hour or two during the hot days.  I still vividly remember one summer when they had a girl working on the grounds crew, and she'd be hand watering the greens wearing a string bikini.  It wasn't easy to pay attention to what I was doing when she was anywhere on the course  ;D
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