The Traffic Toll

If you look at the picture below, you will see a pretty clear line between good looking fairway turf with a nice dew pattern, and some other fairway turf in the foreground, which is hurting a little.

So, what's the difference between these two areas?  In two words:  Cart traffic.  Look closely and you can see that the healthy turf begins at the point where the directional signs have carts leaving the fairway to enter the cart path.  Even with limited play this past week, the vehicle damage on the soaked turf is clear.