Poa Greens can be tremendous putting surfaces with the ideal environment. Our greens are 95% poa annua. Given the fact the greens are 85 years old we have a lot of perennial type of poa on our greens. We have an ideal climate for Poa. 1600 feet of elevation in Northeast PA. We have removed thousands of trees throughout the property to give them every opportunity to thrive. We can provide our membership with above average speeds on a daily basis, but we know when we have to back off. If we were maintaining grass in Philadelphia would I want that much Poa. Not a chance. But with our ciimate it thrives and our members love putting them on a daily basis. I am actually more concerned about the damage we sustain over the winter than what we encouter in the summer months. I feel that at least in the summer I have a chance of preventing it. We have tried everything over the winter and it is a roll of the dice every year when the snow melts.
Greg,
Thanks for the email earlier this week with the link to the renovation progress that you are making. Marzolf is stud and has done some really fine bunker work on some old, classic golf courses, as of late.
I just wanted to say that reading your above post was quite refreshing in the fact that you didn’t refer to everything about the golf course as “me,” “my” or “mine.” Ultimately, the golf course superintendent, (in most cases) doesn’t own the course. We are not typically the ones mowing, or rolling, or spraying, etc. We’re directing it and how we think it’s best done. In so many discussions and/or articles, I’ve never understood why it’s always, “my greens, my roots or I sprayed or I’m cutting at…” Ultimately, I think that it takes away credit from the staff and Assistants that are really doing the physical work. I would be interested if any members of this site, who are members at a course, get upset if they hear their Superintendent talk like such. (Maybe most do not even notice) It’s much more the member’s golf course that it is the Superintendents.