7 Surprising Things That Happen When Course Maintenance Stops
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- Category: Inside Golf
- Published: 2020-04-16
By JOSH SENS, Golf.com
If you think it’s gotten hard to maintain your golf game, consider what it’s like to maintain a golf course. Strapped by reduced budgets and skeleton staffing, many superintendents have been facing painful choices, forced to cut back on their upkeep or forestall it altogether. Some of the consequences are cosmetic. Others carry deeper repercussions, posing potential risks to a course’s long-term health and the conditions many golfers take for granted. So what, exactly, happens when standard maintenance practices fall through the cracks? Adam Moeller, Director of Green Section Education for the USGA, walks us through a 7-point overview.
1. Mowing: The Long and Short of It
When grass is left un-mown, it doesn’t just grow longer. It gets harder to whip back into playing shape. You’d think it might be simple; just whack the grass down to whatever height you want it. But it doesn’t work like that.