While the picture above may not look very pretty, it is a thing of beauty for the grounds staff. The dreaded 11th green has been a thorn in our side since it was built in 2011. After fighting to keep bentgrass thriving on it, a battle we were slowly losing, we opted to transition it over to poa to match our other greens. This variety of bentgrass could not tolerate our aggressive management practices and would thin out every year. Finally, 2 years ago we decided to start working poa into the green every chance we could. Each aeration we took small plugs from our other greens and spread them on top and then punched them into the soil. By the looks of this green, we are more than 85% poa now and will continue to encourage poa. Allowing the poa to go to seed allows more poa to spread in the spring and being the bentgrass is not waking up, the poa will out-compete it right now. I feel confident enough when the green is rebuilt this fall, we can strip the green sod and reuse again.
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