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PEER-TO-PEER, BETTER TURF THROUGH NETWORKING Question for Superintendents: PGR use on greens and fairways: What are your rates and observations? At Coffee Mill Golf Club, our older, that may result from the primo applica- sion of the Poa in the treated plots. heavy Poa front nine greens receive .125 tions on fairways. However, in the plots most suppressed, I O/M Primo approximately monthly - Ben Just don't believe the players would tolerate included with a regular application of fer- Midland Hills Country Club, St. Paul the funky look. But the Trimmit did tilizer/fungicide. Our newer Providence work! At Edgewood our greens only use back nine greens receive 6 - 8 O/M - Jack MacKenzie, CGCS Andersons Turf Enhancer 2SC on Poa/ Trimmit approximately monthly included North Oaks Golf Club, North Oaks with a regular application of fertilizer/ Bent Greens Rate of 10 oz. per acre tank Deer Run fungicide. Our Trimmit applications seem mixed with .2 N/1,000 sq. ft. every 21 At we use Primo on Greens, to reduce small Poa patches during hot days. tees and fairways from mid May till late weather; we will experiment with increas- Provides decreased growth with minor september.Greens are treated every two ing rates to further delay Poa encroach- discoloration of Poa. Increased density weeks at the rate of .15. Tees are treated ment. We have not treated other areas of and green speed. Allows us to skip a every three weeks at .25, Fairways are also the golf course, but are considering treat- mowing and roll only once per week, usu- treated every three weeks at .25. We also ing tees to reduce clippings. ally only during hot weather conditions. use Proxy on our greens to control seed- Also allows us to skip clean up round 2-3 heads one 5 oz app. early May followed - Jeff Normandt times per week. by another 5 oz app three weeks later. Coffee Mill Golf Club, Wabasha Plan to use a TGR on tees this season, - Barry Provo At Spooner Golf Club I apply two possibly Primo. Deer Run Golf Club, Victoria applications of Primo at .125 oz/1000 - Mark Lindberg and Proxy at 5 oz/1000 in early spring Edgewood Golf Course/Fargo Parks (Continued on Page 10) on Poa greens. Timing is critical with these apps for successful Poa seedhead North Oaks suppression. The first app is typically Golf Club's around April 20 with '.he second applica- Poa/Bent surfaces tion three to four weeks later. I keep a rely on growth reg- Providing Full Service Growing Degree Days chart in the spring ulators to limit and use it for predicting my first applica- clippings during Golf Course Design tion (when GDD32 =300). Primo at the summer .125oz/1000 is then applied every 10 days months. Our through the remainder of the growing sea- greens receive .09 son. This same program works well for O/M of Primo me on Poa/Bluegrass fairways mowed at every week during 1/2 inch, the only difference of using the summer along Primo at .25 oz/1000 and stretching out with the fungi- summer applications to control growth as cide/fertilizer tank. needed. _ . n.n Fairways and tees - Eric Ritter receive .16 O/M Spooner Golf Club, Spooner, WI every two weeks in At Midland Hills, we are using a com- season along with bination of Cutless/Primo on our greens fungicides and fer- (Bent/Poa) this season. In 2006, we did a tilizers. I believe it season long test (plot) using rates of 0.05 is important to add oz/1000 of each product in our fungi- a bit of N with any cide/fertility tank mixes every two weeks. PGR to mask the We saw a nice reduction in clippings and off-color tinge noticed no difference in color compared to sometimes notice- our other greens that received only primo; able after an appli- Architects Of we also saw an increase in bentgrass on cation of PGR. We The Game the test plot. As for our fairways we use are conducting a Primo at a rate of 0.15 oz/1000 every two Trimmit study with 651-636-4600 weeks and increase through the year top- the University of ping out at 0.20 oz/1000, for the main pur- Minnesota and www.bonestroogolf.com pose of clipping reduction. Our granular have observed sig- fertility program masks any off coloring nificant suppres- a division of Bonestroo, Rosene, Anderlik and Assoc. keeps the greens at an acceptable speed tent surface throughout the day. I have Peer-to-Peer- for those golfers. Keep in mind that an good results and notice when I am at the (Continued from Page 9) acceptable speed for the MCC is around end of the two weeks because clippings At Hong Kong Golf Club Primo is 9.5 on the stimpmeter. We also seldom start to increase. I would like to use Primo used on all three courses from May thru lower our mower heights below .130", on tees and fairways but do not have November to control growth and produce double cutting 3x per week to aid in that enough in the budget to support it. Hope speed. this helps. n , . , a denser, faster putting greens surface. - Rob Adams As for the tees, we spray our Fairways are a mix of Bermuda and The Ponds at Battle Creek, Maplezvood Zoysia turfgrasses. Regulating growth is approaches and tees together, mowed at extremely important during the warm, .437." For those, we use Primo to help The Classic at Maddens Resort is pre- wet summer months. With wet condi- reduce clippings at the rate of .20 O/M. dominately providence bent with about tions, it may be impossible to mow on a We only spray once a month in the sum- 10/ 15% poa. Start the end of April with 4 daily basis, so the Primo is an important mer months, so it has a tendency to come oz./A of Cutless and 6 oz./lOOO Bensumec tool to control growth. Primo is applied at out of regulation before the next applica- on greens (water in) and 8 oz./ A of .1 O/M to .15 O/M on fairways every tion. I tried spraying at the rate of .25 Cutless on fairways with 32 oz./A three weeks. Greens and tees receive an O/M a couple of years ago, but the yel- Dimension (water in). Greens are on a 2 application of .06 O/M to .09 O/M every lowing (albeit very little) bothered our week schedule and fairways on a 3 week two weeks. All applications have iron golfers. schedule with the Cutless. We use a com- added to the application to a mask any Our budget doesn't currently allow for bination in early May on greens for seed potential yellowing, but during periods of growth regulators on the fairways. Heck, heads (1 app.) of 3 oz. Primo 4 oz. Cutless rapid growth the iron is not necessary. I wish I could afford more fertilizer! per A and 3 oz/1000 of Proxy. We then - Rick Traver, CGCS continue with Cutless only until fall. The -Randy Witt, CGCS Monticello Country Club, Monticello regulating appearance of Cutless on the Hong Kong Golf Club, China providence is more subtle. Not as The Ponds of Battle Creek uses PGRS At the Monticello Country Club we much yellowing as TGR and still get good on the greens. My greens are L93 and four apply Primo on our Bent/Poa greens at lateral growth. Iron and liquids are years old. I use Primo at .075 oz/M every the rate of .125 O/M every two weeks applied with Cutless periodically. We did two weeks with some N in the same tank. with our fertilizer and fungicides applica- use 16 oz./A of TGR with our first appli- I start the applications at the beginning of tions. Our primary reason for the applica- cation for snow mold on tees and fair- June and end in mid-September. I use it to tion of growth regulators is that a majority ways. After two years it seems to help reduce clippings and try to keep a consis- of our play occurs later in the day and this (Continued on Page 11) n^r e*?* Mftmt firf ptMas, Jic SUPERIOR ORGANIC DESIGNED FOR PERFORMANCE, HOMOGENEOUS PRILL THE FINEST IN COMBINED TECHNOLOGIES 8-2-10 Plus 14-0-14 Fe 15-2-5 16-0-8 Plus Greens Fairways Roughs & High Fairways Coti ntry Q ub & Tees & Tees Wear Areas & Tees i-euanu n Mega-Phos i "UR F PRODUCTS Water Soluble Fertilizers Potassium Phosphite r«IX-PR O and MKP Low Rates COMPOSITE Higher Active Ingredient TECHNOLOGY • The Last Word in Phosphite Products SEED$RESEARCH GENETICALLY SUPERIOR BENTGRASSES FROM THE WORLD'S MOST COMPLETE BENTGRASS PROGRAM For Superior Turf Services, call: Larry Thornton Matt Schmid 612-804-1692 Fax: 952-949-3889 612-366-4128 Peer-to-Peer- bentgrass. Drew Larsm (April, May) 3 week interval .10 Primo Medina Golf & Country Club, Medina with liquid N and medicines, (June, July, (Continuedfrom Page 10) August) down to two week interval .12 I thought I would throw in my two Primo, N and medicines (Blue /Poa with hardening off and the Poa really cents of PGRs. I have applied Primo to my /Bent). 3) Fairways, similar to tees, start looks yellow in the spring. Overall trying Bluegrass/Poa fairways at Waseca- year three week interval, .25 of Primo, liq- to give bent the best chance to compete.