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Question for Superintendents: PGR use on greens and fairways: What are your rates and observations?

At Coffee Mill 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 , 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)

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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. Lakeside for the past 12 years. This pro- uid N and medicines then down to two - Charles Kornmann gram is so predictable, for me it has week interval, .18 of P, N and medicines The Classic at Madden's, Brainerd (Blue/Poa/Bent). T n , , become a no-brainer in my management v ' ' ' - Tom Proshek program. When I first started I experi- Tartan Park uses Primo as a primary Brackett's Crossing C.C., Lakeville mented with rates and have settled in on means for keeping its greens consistent .32oz/M in combination with a soluable throughout the day. It is applied at a rate Last season at Dellwood we switched fertilizer every three weeks starting of 0.125 oz/1000 on 2-week intervals, from using Primo only to a combination of around the last week of May or first of starting in mid-May and ending after the Primo and Cutless. Our main goal is clip- June. I budget for five applications and first heavy frost. It is applied in conjunc- ping reduction. Secondary goals are Poa that has been fine all but two years in 11. tion with liquid fertilizers and fungicides. reduction and improved turf vigor. We The tees and fairways do not receive PGR For greens I started using Primo about are on a two week spray interval for treatments. four years ago. The rate that has worked fungicides and we include fertilizer and - Jeff Hanson for me is ,15oz/M every 14 days in com- growth regulators at the same time. The Tartan Park Golf Course, St. Paul bination with liquid fertilizer/fungicide as rates we used last year were Cutless at needed. I generally start the end of May 3oz/ A and Primo at 3oz/ A on greens. For GC uses Primo at .12 oz./M first of June like fairways depending on tees it was Cutless at 3oz/ A and Primo at on greens only every two weeks. It is growth and continue until the first week 4oz/A and fairways were Cutless at tank-mixed with our liquid foliar feed of September. We have Bent/Poa greens 3oz/ A and Primo at 5oz/A. Our results program. First apps are roughly end of but manage for Bent and have a fairly were good clipping control and better May through end of August. No PGRs are good population. green speeds than with Primo alone and used on other areas of course. - Rob Panuska little discoloration. We did not see a sig- - Dave Kazmierczak Waseca-Lakeside Club. nificant reduction in Poa but did Prestwick Golf Club, Woodbury Brackett's Crossing uses growth regu- (Continued on Page 25) At Village Greens Golf Course I use lators to control clip- Turf Enhancer 2SC every 3 weeks on the pings and seed head greens @ 16oz to 24oz/Acre. I start at production. We MTI DISTRIBUTING 16oz/ Acre in the spring and I increase the have Bent/Poa Your Exclusive Andersons Distributor rate as the season goes along. I have been greens and use Primo/Proxy in on this program for 10 years and I am When Every Square Inch Counts very happy with the results. I don't use Spring. Primo/ Experience the Andersons formulation advantage on your fairways PGR's on the fairways because of cost. Proxy applications - Rick Dauner are dependant on The photos below illustrate the difference in particle size and uniformity between the temps and usually Andersons small and mid-size fairway fertilizer and a competitor's product. Notice no Village Green Golf Course, Moorhead nutrient segregation with Andersons mid-size due to uniform particle sizing versus sig- first application is nificant nutrient segregation with competitor. At Medina G & CC we use Primo at a mid April, followed rate of 0.125 oz/M on greens, every by 2nd application Andersons 25-3-9 + 2% Fe ( 150 SGN) Local Comelilor 15-5-10(215 SGN) twoweeks starting in mid-May. About July early to mid May. 1st we increase the rate to 0.15 oz/M. (The Results here have length of regulation seems to get a little been very good with shorter as the season wears on.) We treat Poa seed head fairways with Primo at a rate of 0.15 reduction and mini- I lb. of N per 1.000 - 175 Ibs/acie - 3.7 panicles per sq in I lb. of N per 1.000 - 290 Ibs/acre - 2.0 particles per sq i oz/M every three weeks starting about mal puffy turf. The matrix shown below demonstrates a dramatic I he illustration below shows the ctTcct of using a non-uni- June 1st, and we increase the rate to 0.2 We apply Primo increase in particle coverage (PPSI) by using smaller form fertilizer product. Note the severe skewing and to greens, tees and particle products versus increasing the rate (lbs.) of a handing of different nutrients. oz/M in mid-July. I am planning to do larger particle product Uniform Particle Distribution some trials with Cutless and/or Trimmit fairways throughout Spreadability : Particle Flight Vamng particle Si/es and dcnsil) cause irregular ballistic hchas* this year on some fairways and greens. We the golf season. resulting in inconsistent delivery o( pnxiiicl have a pretty large percentage of bent- 1) Greens two grass in our greens, due to severe winter- week interval, .10 kill of the poa in the winters of 03-04 and Primo with liquid 04-05, and I would like to do whatever I fert .10 N, with med- can to maintain and increase the percent- icines (fungicides) as • nnwfiráai^iA.rti.iáfrtdM.fiÉ.ili **Ciet the Andersons small or midsize particle advantage" age of bentgrass. Also, we do not cover year goes on, may •Andersons small and mid-size fertilizer blends provide a uniform our greens in the winter, in part because increase Primo to .12 application of nutrients across the entire spreader swath. no one has ever proven to me that the or so as growth con- •Andersons fertilizer blends provide up to 7 times more particles per benefits outweigh the costs, and also to tip tinues (Bent/Poa). 2) square inch (PPSI) than typical fairway grade products. •Avoid inconsistent turf response by experiencing the Andersons formula- /UlQCf|SOflS~

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MGCSA Board of Directors Meeting see the Bentgrass moving more laterally. January 16,2007, Somerset Country Club We will be increasing our Cutless rate by loz/ A on our applications to greens, By MATT McKlNNON, MGC SA Secretari/ tees and fairways to try and take out some of the weaker bio-types of Poa. President James Bade reported that he $100,000. Paul also reported there were a - Eric H. Peterson has written a letter to the new Dean of the lot of positive comments about the show. Dellwood Hills Golf Club, Dellwood College introducing the association. James The show in 2008 will be one week later. expressed our association's support for Dr. Kevin Clunis, CGCS reported there are Keller GC sprays all playing surfaces Horgan and Dr. Watkins. Scottie Hines, 254 registered voters and 39 independent from May to October to reduce clip- CGCS and James attended the Minnesota voters in our association. The MGCSA has pings and improve overall health of our Golf Council meeting. The point of the three sets of 254 votes but no more than Poa annua. Our greens receive .15 oz/M meeting was to try to grow the game. The 254 votes can be used per candidate. of Primo every 2.5 -3 weeks from early MGA is going to do an Economic Impact Kevin also reported that the GCSAA May through Sept. Fairways and tees Statement. Weather and forecasting were would not increase dues at this time. receive .25 oz/M of Primo every 2.5 -3 big issues. Rob Panuska reported that Rick weeks for the same time frame. Played Tom Proshek reported the annual Traver, CGCS would be running for around with Trimmit on two fairways Awards Banquet would be held at President. Vice President and Treasurer this past summer to begin a fairway Prestwick Golf Club. will also be open along with three conversion to bentgrass. Seeded middle Scott Turtinen reported there were 59 Directors positions in 2008. of June after Poa annua seeded out. people who participated in the 18-hole Jack MacKenzie, CGCS reported the Results were poor due to extreme heat challenge. The Lanyards that were hand- MTGF would be meeting soon to discuss in July and Trimmit application timing. ed out at the MGCSA booth went over the requests for funding they have Trimmit definitely supresses Poa annua well. received. There is around $180,000 in growth and can yellow turf. Yellowing Paul Diegnau, CGCS reported there request and the MTGF will hand out is greatly enhanced by frost. Will contin- were 8,000+ attendees at the Minnesota about $120,000 for those requests. ue trials in '07. - Paul Diegnau, CGCS Green Expo. The MGTF will make over Have a great spring! Keller GC, St. Paul CLASSIFIED ADS

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