Very good.. !! As a golf course architect, we advocate great maintenance of greens. Stirling & Martin have designed many top golf courses. Stirling & Martin.
Very well done. As someone with a 1,500 square foot, home bentgrass putting green, I need to maximize my cultural practices financially as it's very expensive. I solid tine and scarify in the spring and hollow tine in the fall. I do overseed with my 777/007 bentgrass blend during both procedures.
I have been in the golf business for 40 years, aerification in my opinion is misunderstood people believe it relieves compaction, I think compaction issues are so bad on a golf green you have to open core aeriate it 20 times a year to do that. The more important reason to do it is to get air into the root zone and to reduce thatch. We have a daily fee course and aerifiying destroys your income for weeks, What I do is open core late in the fall and it is very important to fill the holes with sand, then I like to needle tine in the spring and once a month through the season and it does not interrupt play. Deep tineing in the winter also is a great tool. What happens in the classroom does not relate to the real world of trying to make a profit in the business. On the other hand private courses can do what they want to.
