bermuda or bent...what''s your preference?...playing Sunday and Monday on all bermuda except for greens....not a big fan
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I prefer a hybrid. A cross, of Bluegrass, Kentucky Bluegrass, Featherbed Bent, and Northern California Sensemilia. The amazing stuff about this is, that you can play 36 holes on it in the afternoon, take it home and just get stoned to the bejeezus....
Come on man, A1A4, bent. The new bermuda greens are excellent too. All about the maintenance budget.
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You are not alone that struggles with bermuda rough. Especially this time of the year when it can be very thick.
I like bent greens best. Poa annua 2nd. Bermuda third. I just played Fishers Island a week ago and I was reminded how good poa annua greens can be. They take a lot of flack from whiny tour pros but as you know, it's hardy. And true. I grew up on poa annua in WV. Fairways? Zoysia is such a good turf but it's almost like cheating it's so good. I'll take some of my friends from my club who are accustomed to zoysia to play a course with bent fairways and they always struggle-especially with short shots. Zoysia gives you such a margin for error and on bent fairways the ball has to be struck perfectly. Rough? I hate all rough!
exactly....and the stuff in newport news is real gnarly I have to take at least 1 more club.......I'm just an old school bent fairways and greens and bluegrass roughs kind of guy.....call me crazy....
I ilke zoysia fairways......I have never played true poa greens...in my neck of the woods you'd have to mow them twice a day to keep those nasty little seedheads from appearing..bet they'd be quick
I'm so used to bermuda and zoysia fairways/rough, I actually have issues when I play on anything different
Poa annua gets a bad rap but some of the best courses in the world have poa annua greens...Cypress Point, Pebble Beach, Pine Valley, Fishers Island, Shinnecock, Winged Foot, Oakmont....there's a long list. Those 7 are all in Golf Digest's top 11. Think about that the next time you hear someone bad mouth poa annua.
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I bad mouth poa when it invades bent greens. That is a huge problem and I think you would agree. I have played 100% poa before and I won't say it is my favorite but it isn't bad as long as it isn't flowering.
The flowering thing is overhyped. I grew up on 100% poa annua and I never once noticed flowering at the end of the day. Same at Pebble where I've played it until dark. I agree that a mixture of grasses (especially fescue and poa) can create uneven surfaces but courses with bent/poa (like Oakland Hills, Garden City, Bethpage Black) all have great surfaces which putt true.
I can take you to plenty bent grass greens in ATL that has an invasion of poa and the issue is not overblown, I assure you. You may be used to high end courses. That isn't the same for non-high end.
Any non-high end course that far south with bent greens is lucky to have any grass at all. Bent that far south requires a maintenance budget and expertise most clubs don't have..
there are different kinds of poa.......Poa Annua trivialis and Poa Annua Reptans......we have reptans up here and it turns the suckers white when it invades.....how'd you like that fancy superintendent talk.......chinch bugs....manganese
if you have an average temp of 80 -85 then bent is not going to be happy unless you treat it really gently which equals time and $......diseases like brown patch and pythium blight would be licking their chops