 Irrigation
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General
Watering
Drainage
Drought
Dry Spots
Fertigation
| General |
Turfgrass Trends, Irrigation articles
USGA GR: Putting Green Drainage, Drainage, Drainage (Nov 2005)
USGA GR (May 1993): From Broken Shaft to Soil Probe
†Snow - Irrigation affects species predominance.
†Schwartzkopf - Water effects on turfgrass wear.
†Brame - From broken shaft to soil probe.
2005 Turfgrass and Environmental Research - Improving procedures for testing putting green materials
Irrigation and Its Impact on Turfgrass Diseases
Bentgrass Golf Green Water Characterization - Power Point Presentation
†Graves - Grey water and green grass.
Irrigation and Its Impact on Turfgrass Diseases
Effluent Irrigation - 2 edged sword
| Watering |
Necessity of Hand Watering Greens - USGA video
Sprinkler Uniformity Evaluation
USGA GR (May 1999): Flood Your Greens - Not Your Bunkers
†Skorulski - Putting out the fire: a hose system used to get water out fast.
Zoller, For Good Golf and Good Turf –Use Less Water
USGA GR (Jul 1996): Gross - Hand watering greens: there is a correct way.
†Carpenter - Wet greens: let's try this first.
†Murphy - High pressure water injection and core cultivation of a compacted putting green.
†McLain - Answering the most-asked questions about the golf course pump station.
| Drainage / Filtration |
Fingered Flow in Laboratory Golf Putting Greens
USGA GR (Jul 1999): Subsurface Drainage of Modern Putting Greens
†Nektarios - Fingered flow in laboratory golf putting greens.
†Spomer - Principles of soil preparation for drained golf greens.
USGA GR (Jan 1994): Taylor - Water retention in golf greens: sub-root zone layering effects.
USGA GR (Jul 1994): Wet Greens -- "Let's Try This First"
†Nugent - Drainage--the sometimes forgotten necessity.
†Spomer - Golf green soil amendment: controlling soil water and aeration.
†Gross - Suck-cess. (vacuuming rain water)
‡Practical Drainage: Golf, Sportsturf and Horticulture
†Taylor - Measuring water infiltration rates of sports turf areas.
†Prettyman - Subsurface drainage of modern putting greens.
†Taylor - Sub-root zone layering effects on water retention in sports turf soil profiles.
†White - The best turf tips of 1985. II. Flushing drains and brushing greens
| Drought |
†Smith - Drought emergency planning: Philadelphia Association of Golf Course Superintendents responds.
| Dry Spots |
Necessity of Hand Watering Greens - USGA video
TurfFax May-Jun 1999 - Localized Dry Spots
†Karnok - Effects of flutolanil fungicide and primer wetting agent on water-repellent soil.
†Karnok - High pH treatments and the alleviation of soil hydrophobicity on golf greens.
- †York
- Water repellent soils as they occur on UK golf greens.
- †Cisar - The occurrence and alleviation by surfactants of soil-water repellency on sand-based turfgrass systems.
- †Kostka - Amelioration of water repellency in highly managed soils and the enhancement of turfgrass performance through the systematic application of surfactants.
†Hudson - Organic matter comparison of wettable and nonwettable soils from bentgrass sand greens.
| Fertigation |