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Thatch is a Course Manager’s worst nightmare. New expectations and demands for improved playing conditions are prime factors in the minds of users and managers alike. By David H Bates
T CYLINDER GRINDERS
for improved playing conditions are prime factors in the minds of users and management alike. Competition for members,
societies and customers has never been fiercer. In golf terms, it’s match play out there, head to head.
well imbedded Course Managers have had their positions terminated with many others being challenged by their individual chairmen, treasurers and captains, as pressure increases to secure revenues and committees ask “are we getting value from our Greenkeeper?”. The demands to produce and maintain greens to the required standards, along with budgets for greenkeeping products are spiralling to such an extent, and things are not getting better. However, there are many
factors which have a serious impact on a green’s quality, none more so than the issue of thatch.
throughout the continent despite the diversity of grass types and soil conditions which occur within the amenity turf culture. Usually, one becomes aware of the presence of thatch through a deterioration in the playing surface. Significant changes are seen in colour, they become uneven, patchy and infested with weeds and moss. A soft or spongy feel to the turf is
Thatch is a common problem In recent months, a number of
he world of amenity and leisure is changing. New expectations and demands
apparent when walking across the surface and, in extreme cases, one can see foot marks, or wheel marks from the machinery, left in the thatch. Naturally, players begin to complain that greens are slow. Then the snowball effect begins. The club’s management is anxious to retain its customers; hence pressure is placed upon the Greenkeeper to correct the situation. Unfortunately, the instinct is to run screaming to established company representatives to supply a remedy, which undoubtedly takes the form of a salt fertiliser in an attempt to colour up and provoke good grass growth, only to then need fungicides to offset the resulting ingress of diseases or toxin build up within the soil, e.g. black layer, shallow rooting, root breaks, just to name but a few. To discuss thatch and thatch
removal or thatch control, it is necessary for us first to study how, where and why thatch forms.
many factors operating simultaneously. The following reasons for thatch accumulation have been given by agronomists and researchers worldwide for decades.
This appears to be caused by Tel: 01332 691155
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The modern approach of applying high salt materials of an inorganic nature. The use of excessively heavy applications of nitrogen (N) increases thatch development, particularly if applied in the wrong season and in adverse conditions, or for the
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