The Fescue (or native areas) of the golf course are often erroneously referred to as low maintenance. Truth be told, with an area that is only mown a few times each year and is purposefully kept thin, if you do treat it as low maintenance, then weeds of all types will encroach.
Coming into this year, we devoted additional resources to improving the Fescue, and are now seeing the results. While not perfect, compared to prior years, these areas are looking a whole lot cleaner, with fewer undesirable grasses, sedges, and broadleaf weeds.
One of the other maintenance challenges here has always been that the Fescue is often more penal closer to the hole's centerline, than further out in the rough. To address this, in areas where the Fescue density is greater on the edge of the primary rough, we have made a step cut.
While progress has been made, we are currently seeing another wave of weeds to battle. There is definitely no "set it and forget it" here...
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