Golf
Coming from Ireland with Poa greens, when we get a hot period - which isn’t too often - we drown the green. Here, that is how you kill grass!
The 9th at Robert Trent Jones
great bunch of guys, to hearing about the Australian way of greenkeeping and, of course, enjoying the local social scene. RTJ has cool season grasses on greens,
tees and fairways so, as you can imagine, keeping grass alive in the extreme temperature and high humidity was a new experience. I was a more worried, some days, about struggling more myself than the grass with the heat! But we learned to pace ourselves, drinking lots of fluids, staying hydrated and making sure we wore
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sunscreen and hats. With my Irish complexion, I could have burned quickly near the lake and also being out in the sun most days.
Coming from Ireland with Poa greens, when we get a hot period - which isn’t too often - we drown the green. Here, that is how you kill grass! We were taught that, throughout a day with high humidity, you only cool off the green, and then only if it is needed, with a light mist over with the hose pointing up at all times.
www.rainbird.com/iq The first signs of wilt on a bent green are
what is called ‘foot printing’ so, for example, if you walk on the green and it leaves a white tint of your footprint, it needs cooling off. Another sign is colour; if you see a hue of purple, you cool it off. This took a while to catch onto but, after twelve hours a day, seven days a week, I got the hang of it eventually. Each day we had our own section to look
after, which was four greens during the week and six at the weekend. Everyday was the
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