"J. Del Col" wrote in message
m...
Before the advent of plastic liners, the practice was to use
vegetation killers. My dad was an avid golfer for 40 years, and I
used to accompany him. From time to time the sand traps at the various
courses he played reeked of chemicals.


Plantproof liners of one kind or another are used today.

While it may be possible that there are a few courses that line bunkers with
plastic, over 99% do not. It is not an accepted practice in golf course
construction today and USGA does not recommend it. In over 20 years of
design/construction/renovation of golf courses I have never seen it.

http://www.usga.org/green/coned/bunk...ers_intro.html

"J. Del Col" wrote in message
m...
Before the advent of plastic liners, the practice was to use
vegetation killers. My dad was an avid golfer for 40 years, and I
used to accompany him. From time to time the sand traps at the various
courses he played reeked of chemicals.


Plantproof liners of one kind or another are used today.

While it may be possible that there are a few courses that line bunkers with
plastic, over 99% do not. It is not an accepted practice in golf course
construction today and USGA does not recommend it. In over 20 years of
design/construction/renovation of golf courses I have never seen it.

http://www.usga.org/green/coned/bunk...ers_intro.html

Advert wrote in message ...
barrett wrote:

Both bent and bermuda must be cut with a real mower at least 4 times a weak to
prevent burning of the foliage.

Not true. Not even half true by any stretch of the imagination.


If you really want to get fancy
excavate soil and replace with 85% peat 15% sand(PGA specs).

PGA has no specs for golf greens. USGA, however, recommends 85% SAND
and 15% PEAT, but it only meets specs if it has a perched water table.

You were kinda making sense until you got to the end.

Whats not true or half true by any strecth of the imagination? Golf
greens are cut to a height of one eighth of an inch( give or take a
fraction or two). If you know of a rotory lawnmower that will cut that
short i'd like to know about it. If you cut more than one third of
length off a blade of grass you can get burning(browning)of the
leaves. In college we maintained a hybrid bermuda lawn. We mowed 3
times a week and almost allways burned the foliage. Don't know about
the PGA/USGA part, but if your right I guess that makes me only half
wrong about it. You can get around the perk part with a drainage
system under the green(there are specs for that too).

(barrett) wrote:
Both bent and bermuda must be cut with a real mower at least 4 times a
weak to prevent burning of the foliage.

Advert wrote
Not true. Not even half true by any stretch of the imagination.

(barrett) wrote:
Whats not true or half true by any stretch of the imagination?

Maybe you meant REEL mower 4 times a WEEK. That is what golf courses
here do.

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(barrett) wrote:
Both bent and bermuda must be cut with a real mower at least 4 times a
weak to prevent burning of the foliage.

Advert wrote
Not true. Not even half true by any stretch of the imagination.

(barrett) wrote:
Whats not true or half true by any stretch of the imagination?

Maybe you meant REEL mower 4 times a WEEK. That is what golf courses
here do.

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