If you haven't had the opportunity to take in the new putting green at #1 tee, you're missing something big. In fact, the new green is more than twice the size of its predecessor.
In order to sod this landing strip, we used sod from three sources on site: The old putting green, the Clubhouse putting green, and our nursery.
It would have been difficult to find replacement sod for the Clubhouse green from a commercial source which closely matched the mix of Bent and Poa on the golf course greens. We were extremely fortunate to be one of only a handful of golf courses in the country to receive Poa seed developed by Dr. David Huff of Penn State University. Using his suggested ratio of Creeping Bentgrass and Poa annua, the Clubhouse putting green was prepped and reseeded last Monday.
Seeding in November in our region can be a roll of the dice, so a turf cover was installed over the green immediately to help promote seed germination by retaining moisture and increasing the soil temperature. The next several months will involve a good deal of cover on/cover off, on all of the recently renovated fine turf areas around the course.
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