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From: JohnO on 19 Jun 2010 17:12 Looks like a fungal infection?
From: Lopez Gomez on 19 Jun 2010 20:53 JohnO <johno1234(a)gmail.com> wrote in news:38675e9e-f1e1-4c9f-8f92- 35ff1d475cfd(a)q39g2000prh.googlegroups.com: > Looks like a fungal infection? Not fungus - invasive poa annua grass, mixed in with bent. Once poa gets established, there is no getting rid of it. A very common sight on courses here in the northeast too. The greens at Pebble Beach have been like that for decades.
From: W^3 on 19 Jun 2010 23:25 In article <Xns9D9CD4585E04592011(a)216.196.97.131>, Lopez Gomez <albatross(a)eagleshite.com> wrote: > JohnO <johno1234(a)gmail.com> wrote in news:38675e9e-f1e1-4c9f-8f92- > 35ff1d475cfd(a)q39g2000prh.googlegroups.com: > > > Looks like a fungal infection? > > Not fungus - invasive poa annua grass, mixed in with bent. Once poa gets > established, there is no getting rid of it. > > A very common sight on courses here in the northeast too. > > The greens at Pebble Beach have been like that for decades. They didn't look like this in 2000. (Or is it that our flat panels show it now?)
From: Lopez Gomez on 20 Jun 2010 01:17 W^3 <aderamey.addw(a)comcast.net> wrote in news:aderamey.addw-CA38E1.20252119062010(a)News.Individual.NET: > In article <Xns9D9CD4585E04592011(a)216.196.97.131>, > Lopez Gomez <albatross(a)eagleshite.com> wrote: > >> JohnO <johno1234(a)gmail.com> wrote in news:38675e9e-f1e1-4c9f-8f92- >> 35ff1d475cfd(a)q39g2000prh.googlegroups.com: >> >> > Looks like a fungal infection? >> >> Not fungus - invasive poa annua grass, mixed in with bent. Once poa >> gets established, there is no getting rid of it. >> >> A very common sight on courses here in the northeast too. >> >> The greens at Pebble Beach have been like that for decades. > > They didn't look like this in 2000. (Or is it that our flat panels > show it now?) > Pretty much - HD shows a lot more detail. If you look at some of the film highlights of the 1992 open, (film shows more detail than analog video tape), you'll see that the greens looked just the same then as they do now. But it can vary. Poa loves sun, and the Monterey coastline can be very cloudy. In a given year, if the winter was particulary wet and foggy there might be less poa that spring and summer. Rainfall and storm patterns on the central California coast can be quite variable from one year to the next, Poa annua actually isn't a bad grass to use for greens, IF its a pure poa green, and not a mixture. Farther south, in the L.A. and San Diego area, you'll often find courses that have greens that are pretty much 100% poa. It's when you have a mixture of poa and bent that you run into problems with inconsistent roll. If the green is mowed early in the morning, putts will roll true for several hours, but poa is very fast growing compared to bent grass, so by later in the day, the ball tends to take some unusual hops and bounces. Poa has a lot more grain than bent grass.
From: BAR on 20 Jun 2010 08:14
In article <aderamey.addw-CA38E1.20252119062010(a)News.Individual.NET>, aderamey.addw(a)comcast.net says... > > In article <Xns9D9CD4585E04592011(a)216.196.97.131>, > Lopez Gomez <albatross(a)eagleshite.com> wrote: > > > JohnO <johno1234(a)gmail.com> wrote in news:38675e9e-f1e1-4c9f-8f92- > > 35ff1d475cfd(a)q39g2000prh.googlegroups.com: > > > > > Looks like a fungal infection? > > > > Not fungus - invasive poa annua grass, mixed in with bent. Once poa gets > > established, there is no getting rid of it. > > > > A very common sight on courses here in the northeast too. > > > > The greens at Pebble Beach have been like that for decades. > > They didn't look like this in 2000. (Or is it that our flat panels > show it now?) They looked just as bad on SD. |