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magine, if you will…It’s been a cold few days, but now it’s
sunny outside.
A brisk 50 degrees.
You get your regular group
together and head to your...
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magine, if you will…It’s been a cold few days, but now it’s
sunny outside.
A brisk 50 degrees.
You get your regular group
together and head to your local course, only to find out the
course is closed.
There’s not a cloud in the sky, what the heck?
Was this you in January? Texas golf course superintendents are
concerned about the lasting effects of the hard freeze that hit the
state during the first week of 2010.
As of press time, it was still an issue.
To be honest, fears of a
bermuda die-off brought about by the low temperatures won’t go
away until greens start to come back in March.
If they come back.
“The concern is how long it stayed below freezing,” said Bud
White, Mid-Continent Director for the USGA’s Green Section.
“The last big freeze we had was in 1989; we were way overdue.
”
Bermuda naturally goes dormant when temperatures first begin
to drop.
Though part of the g
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