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Answering your questions is Scott Reeves, veteran course supervisor and BIGGA head of membership. This week he’s being requested about fairway mats and course upkeep…
“Does utilizing fairway mats in winter actually make a lot distinction come spring and summer season?”
Completely. If we’re speaking about utilizing private mats by means of the inexperienced, I believe they make an enormous distinction. The truth is, most golf golf equipment I labored for most well-liked them in the long run as a result of, on a heavy clay soil, you’ll be able to’t reduce the tough as a result of it’s too moist.
When you’re ready to make use of a mat it means you’re assured a fairly respectable lie wherever your ball lands they usually do enhance the looks of the course popping out into spring.
All of it comes all the way down to the membership of the person membership. In the event that they’re prepared in early spring to place up with plenty of divots that aren’t recovering (due to the shortage of grass development and low winter temperatures) and also you’ve obtained good budgets and might spend a number of time divoting and seeding then that’s high quality. Don’t use mats.
However when you’ve obtained restricted budgets, then it’s essential and it reveals golfers are enjoying their half in defending their very own course.
“Many golf equipment perform course upkeep shortly earlier than the competitors season will get below approach. Might this be performed at one other time? Why is it essential?”
The course has come out of winter and also you’ve most likely saved it open extra typically than you’d have favored and also you’ve allowed play on the greens extra typically than you’d have favored.
The course is below strain on a regular basis and it takes its toll. Greenkeepers need to do one thing to alleviate the outcomes of that stress they usually have to hold out upkeep like aeration and high dressing. It’s completely no query.
The perfect time to do this is when the grass is absolutely beginning to get going, when the air temperatures are warming up, as a result of that’s once you’re going to get development which permits restoration to return sooner.
When you do it in January or February, when there is no such thing as a heat and no development, the outcomes of that aeration are going to be hanging round so much longer. As you get into March and April, the temperatures are beginning to choose up. If the work you may have performed has affected the floor, that may restore a lot sooner.
This text seems in Your Course, the twice-yearly publication from the British and Worldwide Golf Greenkeepers Affiliation. Your Course invitations golfers to achieve a deeper appreciation of what getting ready and sustaining a golf course actually includes. Head to www.bigga.org.uk to seek out out extra.
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