A reminder about our bentgrass conversion program on fairways. Here you see the yellowing from a recent growth regulator application (Trimmit) that stunts the poa for about 3 weeks. Once the poa is stunted we put out some nitrogen applications to encourage the bentgrass to really push growth. Throw in the mix we allow annual bluegrass weevils to eat the poa to some extent and we have a great ability to lessen our poa populations. Remember we also allowed the fairways to seed out which weakens the poa even more. Notice here on the 12th fairway (our weakest fairway) how much bentgrass we have. The bentgrass populations have more than doubled since we started this program and removed a bunch of trees to allow more sunlight.
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