BIGGA - Golf Course Reconstruction (part 1)

A training video by BIGGA.

"From being a minority sport, Golf is now very popular - with membership at most clubs fully subscribed. Whilst this is good for the sport it does bring its own problem of wear and tear on the greens..."

Other topics include:

Stress and strains of all year use of greens
Compaction, Poor Drainiage, Thatch Accumulation, Annual Meadowgrass Ingress [poa annua]
Solutions - modifying fertilization, irrigation and aeration
Hollow coring, verti-draining, mole ploughing, slit tining
USGA method of reconstruction and high quality materials proves best
Sports Turf Research Institute contributions to developments

Plus:

USGA method graphical representations
Advantages and disadvantages of other turf management methods.

A special focus on a green reconstruction at Shipley golf club.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• BIGGA
• reconstruction
• golf
• turf
• excavation
• video
• drain
• trench
• rootzone
• firming
• treading
• raking
• turfing
• stressandstrains
• drainage
• compaction
• accumulation
• annualmeadowgrassingress
• fertilization
• irrigation
• aeration
• hollowcoring
• verti-draining
• moleploughing
• slittining
• USGA
• SportsTurfResearchInstitute
• graphics
• shipley
• golfclub