Phoenix Golf Club

Top dressing

Top dressing is planned for Monday the 19th August weather permitting of course, the irrigation ponds have now been re-filled and are available for irrigation water if the summer make a return.

We have a disease on several greens that is not usually seen in the UK not to worry I have had the offending pathogen identified by Dr Kate Entwistle of the turf disease centre and now we can deal with it in the correct manner.

fungus Bipolaris, most likely B. sorokiniana

This disease lives within the thatch layer which we are aiming to reduce by aeration and top dressing. Bipolaris leaf spot is caused by high daytime temperatures above 20c which is what we have just experienced now the temps have come down and the general weather forecast is dry the disease should "grow out" without any detrimental effects, but rest assured we are keeping an eye on things.

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