We know the 11th green has never behaved like our poa greens since it was built in 2011. It cannot be pushed to the extremes our other greens can without thinning out. When we aerated greens in August, we decided to start incorporating poa plugs as our topdressing to begin to switch from bent to poa. The cleanup of aeration cores this year took way longer than years past, having the crew finishing in the pitch dark. We immediately saw extensive mechanical damage from continuously driving over the plugs numerous times and the sweeper having to enter and exit the same way due to hazards on all sides of the green. While it was ugly for quite a few weeks, the green is almost back to normal and the poa is starting to fill in significantly throughout. We will do another aeration in the end of October, this time going solid tines on 11 green and incorporating 1/4" aeration cores from our poa greens. We will also do our 2 practice greens so they too perform like our poa greens. While this was a difficult month to get 11 to recover, we now have a good plan in place moving forward.
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