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Good lie on this Puccinellia equals anything on thebest fescue fairway.

Nitrogen fertilization enables grass to get feet-hold in salt covered soil.

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aline 011Th Utah Copper "at Magna, U.,

has a bad Iairway salt problem. Thground water is highly charged with saltfrom nearby Great Salt Lak . The watertable is only 12 to ] 8 in . blow th ur-face. During warm weather upward movement of soil water by capillary action car-ries salt to the urface. Incru tations ofwhit> salt are extensiv on all fairways.

The turf cover is improving greatly un-der a program of fertilization with thprincipal emphasis on nitrogen. t firstglance the grass is mistaken frequ ntly fora fin -leaved f .cu such a chewing',Ilah e, or cr eping r d. The ban sets upe: actly the sam way a on the veryfinest f scu fairway.

Two train oundTh grass over is Puccinellia distans,

011 of th so-call d " alt gras e ". Th rare two strain at] a t in th turf. Oneform a d m . cov r of uniform te: ture,The oth '1' has a tendency to swirl andmakes a slightly bunch typ of grov thoBut th combination of th two typ sprovides th kind of turf golfers like.

13 rmudagrass i alkali to 1 rant. Magnais outsid the Bermuda b It. It adjoins

alt Lake ity and is too far north and10 at xl at an levation too high for goodBermuda p rfonnanc . Another drawbacki a stat Jaw prohibiting its tran portationinto the tat despit th fact that theremay b som ill the south rn part.

Pnccinellia distans is nnque tionablvmore salt tolerant than Bermuda. It em's

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Otis Ratliffe, Superintendent

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is another important benefit."OTI ATLI F ,Superintendent

Beaumont Country Club, Beaumont, Texas

Gerald M. Dearie, Superintenden:

"I can't ay enough for 'Tersan' OM.During the ummer of 1959, when weatherconditions were very unfavorable for growinggood turf, it proved to me it will knock outdi ea e wh never it occurs. I give "I'ersan'OM credit for keeping my greens disea -free,It is also very easy to handle."

GERALD M. D I, SuperintendentMedinah Country Club, Medinah, Ill.

On all chemicals, always follow label instructions and warnings carefully.

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Early TournamentQ. - La t pring our club (125 members)

managed to buy the land we had lea ed forseveral years and tarted plans for grass green •We had no money but did have several memberwith ambition. Farmer members brought machin-ery, built bunkers and hauled rock and gravelfor a ba e. A friend gave us peat, another hauledit from Colorado and we borrowed a mixer. Com.paction tests told u to mix 2 oil, 1 coar e sand,1 peat. We placed 8 to 10 ins. on the greens, fer.tilized, and planted with Seaside ept. 1. Weath-er wa ideal and now only a few spot about 11/2in . in diameter have yet to fill. We got a newgreen mower and thi spring we top dressed,leveled, and lowered the cut until they are readyto putt on.

Ordinarily we have a tournament in June with150 entries. We have thought we may have todelay the event. everal member are eager totart playing the green . Is there any way that

we can take a hole cutter and check the greento tell when they are ready for play? orne ofus feel that we hould let the root y tern de-velop before we tart playing on them. Wouldyou tell us your opinion of the earlie t pos ibleplaying date? We understand that you are agraduate of the Univer ity of ebra ka. We feltthat you would have a better idea of how fastthi gras would develop in central ebraska.

A. With the good start you have, the care-Ful preparation of the soil mixture, the gooddrainage in the base and your deep concern fordeep root there should be no real reason whyyou should consider postponing your tournament.Maintain a good level of nitrogen to keep thegrass developing strongly. Bring the height ofcut down to putting level as quickly as possiblewithout scalping. low the greens every day -even twic a day when they are growing rapidly.Be ure the topdressing is weed free.

Water deeply and then let the surface becomerath r dry between irrigations. This will help toincreas root depth. dry putting .urface cantake much more abu e than one that is soggy.You may tart putting on the gre ens as .oon asthey are fit to play on. It will be a good ideato have them in play before the tournament -the play will be beneficial.

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If you have questions about turf care,please send them to Fred Grau

(right) c/o Golfdorn,

Poa Annua ControlQ. "We have the problem, a many cour es

have, of poa annua control. Is there any methodof controlling thi gra ,chemically or in main-tenance practice?

We have Washington bent green, bluegrastees and fairway , with under round irrigationon tees, greens and fairway. The course Is con-sidered in very good hape but we do have thatpoa annua ( orth Dakota)

A. No new methods of controlling Poa annuahave come to light. We expect to see Poa inWashington bent. They are natural companions.Do not fight Poa in the greens. Iu t feed thebent generou Iy during its best growing sea on.

Bluegrass turf, irrigated and cut hart enoughfor good te s and fairways, alway can be count-d on to have some poa. Best control i reduced

irrigation and stepped-up fertilization when blue-grass is growing at its b st. rsenicals, u ed reg-ularly, can reduce poa.

Change to BentQ. Our club recently completed in tallation of

a watering ystem, The prevalent gra s on thefairway is Kentucky blue with poa annua inthe green . A i 0 often the ca e upon in talla-tion of watered fairway , the thought of eedingthe fairways and green, with creeping bent habeen entertained. To asure proper he Ithygrowth, what po sible method would be be t forthe introduction of bent? I there a particulareed recommended to with tand evere weather

e po ure? (Illinoi )

. onverting from entucky blue to creepingbent will be very costly. ub .equent maintenancewill be infinit ly more xpen ive. To have atis-

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These six couples annually have dinner as "Hole-in-One" guests of Riverside. (Front row, I to r)Mrs. E. P. Erland, Mrs. E. W. Davis, Mrs. J. L.Monahan and husband. (Second row) Erland,A. B. Williams and Mrs. Williams, Dr. Davis, Mr.& Mrs. M. M. Headley and Mr. and Mrs. H. R.

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far as is known, no oth r club in th conn-try holds a similar event.

Year-Around PlayRiv rside is one of six private clubs in

Portland and except for occasional severesnow storms is playable the y ar around.There are no hills to climb and from manyof the tees and fairways Mt. Hood.vlvlt. t.H len and several other nowcappedmountains can be s en. The club boasts ofnearly 275 women players and Junior en-rollment, including both boys and girls,numbers more than 150. In recent y ars.play by women and childr n has increasedto the extent that it has been nee sary tomake extensive additions to the clubhouseand lockerrooms.

COGA Campaigns forUniform Tee Settings

In arc nt bull tin, the hicago Di t.Golf Assn. call d attention to th lack ofuniformity in tee setting at cour in itsarea. It wa r comm nd d that for v ry-day play ttings b made in three differ-ent arrang ments: }' in front; % in th mid-dle; and ~, at th back. It was ugg tedthat for r cord purpo e , te s be divid dinto A, Band s tions to corr spondwith front, middl and back locations.

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