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Practical Golf Course Maintenance -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Greens -- Keeping the Mowers Sharp -- The Height of Cut -- Mowers and Cutting Patterns -- Cutting the Green: 10 Steps to a Perfect Putting Surface -- The Sequence of Cutting Greens -- Taking Care of Weak Greens -- Dew Removal -- Methods of Dew Removal -- The Triplex Ring Syndrome -- TRS Prevention -- Strategies to Prevent Triplex Ring Damage -- Repairing Triplex Ring Syndrome Damage -- Hydraulic Spills -- Prevention -- Repairing Burnt Grass Caused by Hydraulic Spills -- Clippings. |
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The First Cut of the Spring -- Fast Greens -- Medium-Slow Greens -- Overseeded Greens -- Temporary Greens -- Steps to Establish a Temporary Green -- Double Greens -- Sand Greens without Turf -- High-Sand-Content Greens -- Greens for Homeowners -- The Expense of Building a Backyard Putting Green -- Spike Marks and Ball Marks -- Summary -- 2 Tees -- Cutting Tees -- The Height of Cut on Tees -- Forward Tees -- Practice Range Tees -- What Superintendents Can Do to Improve Tees -- Tee Renovation and Building New Tees -- Summary -- 3 Fairways -- Cutting Fairways -- Dew Removal and Dragging. |
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Uneven Fairways -- Summary -- 4 The Rough -- Defining the Rough Area -- Cutting the Rough -- The Dew Walk -- Maintaining Small but Difficult Rough Areas -- The Fescue Rough -- Naturalized Rough Areas -- Summary -- 5 Bunkers and Their Maintenance -- The Need for Sand Bunkers -- The Sand in Bunkers -- Bunker Drainage -- Bunker Liners -- Reasons Why Sand Bunkers Should Be Renovated -- Pot Bunkers -- The Bunkers of Scotland -- Constructing Revetted Bunkers at St. Andrews -- Grass Bunkers -- Waste Bunkers -- Raking the Bunker -- Steps to Rake a Bunker Properly -- Edging the Bunker -- Summary. |
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6 Water -- Green Grass and Water -- When Wet Is Too Wet -- When Wilting Grass Needs Water -- Syringing -- When to Water -- Localized Dry Spots -- The Perched Water Table -- The Watering System -- What an Irrigation Technician Should Know -- Identifying the Leak -- Excavation -- Repairing the Leak -- Backfilling -- The Pump House -- Winterizing the System -- Recharging the System after Shutdown -- The Water Source -- Summary -- 7 Fertilizer -- Different Types of Fertilizers -- Synthetic Organics -- Liquid Fertilizers -- Iron -- Fertilizers That Burn -- Fertilizers That Don't Burn. |
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Applying Fertilizers -- Managing Fertilizer Spills -- Soil Sampling -- Preparing a Fertilizer Program -- Summary -- 8 Topdressing -- What Kind of Material? -- Sand versus Soil Mixes -- The Progression of Change in Topdressing Mix -- Topdressing Greens-Past and Present -- Topdressing Tees -- Topdressing Fairways -- Topdressing Sod -- Divoting -- Summary -- 9 Aerating, Spiking, and Verticutting -- Aerating Greens -- Scheduling -- Benefits of Aerating -- On the Negative Side -- Hollow Tine Coring and Tine Sizing -- Micro Tining -- Filling in the Holes -- Time to Tiny Tine -- Shatter Core Aeration. |
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| Summary |
The revised, bestselling resource of practical, nontechnical advice for maintaining and operating a golf course Practical Golf Course Maintenance, Third Edition presents the latest information and techniques for providing first-rate upkeep and management operations for any golf course. This book's, clear, step-by-step coverage, unencumbered by technical language, includes critical advice on maintaining consistent bunkers, sand top-dressing and aerifying, pesticide storage, and other emerging technologies, as well as mowing techniques for greens, fairways, and tees-and much more! This updated T. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Format: Adobe PDF eBook. |
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Format: Adobe EPUB eBook. |
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Format: OverDrive Read. |
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Requires Adobe Digital Editions or Adobe Digital Editions. |
| Other edition |
Print version: Witteveen, Gordon Practical Golf Course Maintenance : The Magic of Greenkeeping Somerset : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,c2012 9781118143742. |
| Subject |
Golf courses -- Maintenance.
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Turf management.
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| Genre |
Electronic books.
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| Add'l Names |
Bavier, Michael.
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| Other corporate author |
OverDrive, Inc.
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| ISBN |
9781118411902
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9781118411919
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| STANDARD # |
4D819099-5555-4C1F-9F87-DEA01339EF95 OverDrive |
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