What Is The Value Of Existing Greens Drainage?
We get this question a lot? The value of an internal subsurface greens drainage system like XGD is really hard to quantify due to these reasons: 1) XGD is completely hidden in the soil. Not [...]
Deep Infrequent Irrigation for Salt Flushing, XGD Can Help
The often most under utilised cultural practice is deep,infrequent irrigation for your golf greens. I would guess that many superintendents would want to do this for their greens. However, in [...]
Canoebrook Country Club XGD Greens Drainage
We recently completed the last 3 greens at Canoebrook Country Club in Summit,NJ. Previously in 07 and 08, we had completed our subsurface internal greens drainage into the pushup greens at this [...]
Why Is Internal Greens Drainage So Unglamorous? It’s Like Making Sausage
As I was sitting through another round of talks at GIS 2011, once again the old common, boring, unglamorous theme reused over and over again: install subsurface drainage.Let me also preface this [...]
Oakmont CC,CA Internal Greens Drainage Project
We began some very interesting projects a few weeks ago in the semi arid region of Southern California.With typical annual precipitation amounts ranging from 2-12″/year you might be [...]
The New “Normal” for Golf
Just wanted to touch on a great shorty put out by Ty McClellan of the USGA’s Green Section called: A New Normal for Golf Course Maintenance I have heard this type of new normal also [...]