THE SCORCHED EARTH CONUNDRUM
Summers in Virginia aren’ t getting any cooler. Is Bermudagrass the answer for soothing overheated greens?
by TOM ROBINSON
Dan Taylor took his wife and kids to the beach last summer. There is something very unusual about that sentence.
Taylor is director of golf course maintenance at Independence Golf Club in Midlothian. And golf courses throughout the Richmond metro area last summer were stressed to the point of reducing or halting play during the season’ s most oppressive weather days.
Violent storms combined with relentless heat and humidity delivered unyielding angst to superintendents and maintenance staffs charged with keeping their baked greens alive, let alone playable.
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