After over a dozen articles on the subject, more than 200 thread posts, and in excess of 22,000 Forum page views, the issue of mowing greens as low as 2mm, on a continuous basis throughout the growing season, came to a head at the BIGGA’s BTME currently being staged in Harrogate.
Since Ealing Golf Club’s Course Manager Greg Evans went to press with this radical concept, I have not been slow in making my opinion known on this subject. So like everyone else in the 220 plus throng, who attended at 08.00 yesterday morning, I have been eagerly looking forward to this debate for sometime.
I have no doubt that most greenkeeping teams this side of the equator will have completed a spring renovation operation on their greens ready for the season ahead.
Most clubs in the UK now seem to have a ‘maintenance week’ set aside to accommodate major works to greens in spring and autumn.
This is true at Buckinghamshire Golf Club and Course Manager Simon Graham and his team undertook his programme in a dry warm week at the end of March (pure luck!).
Oh I just could not let this one pass! I have just read Pitchcare’s cleverly juxtaposed articles on mowing heights for golf greens.
They have got Richard Windows and Henry Bechelet of the STRI to give their views on mowing regimes in relation to the Disturbance Theory then followed it with an article by Greg Evans, the Course Manager at Ealing Golf Club (near London), in which he advocates maintaining greens at 2mm!
Journalistic genius? Well this sort of contra opinion on what is basically the management of green speed, is a delight for someone like me, and no doubt will be of interest to all golf course managers around the globe.
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