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Summer heat never felt so cool

By |  August 16, 2016 0 Comments

Screen Shot 2016-06-21 at 10.42.26 AMThe summer season is beginning to wind down, but the courses involved in BASF’s Elite Rejuvenation are in the thick of the program.

At Oglebay Resort, Wheeling, W.Va., Superintendent Nick Janovich had a recent scare on the resort’s Jones course, one of the four courses he maintains. Nine holes on the course lost irrigation for a week in extreme heat, but Janovich was shocked to see they still looked “decent.”

Janovich has been so happy with the results he has seen while participating in the Elite Rejuvenation program that he is starting to use BASF products on his other golf courses. Using that much product puts Janovich over his allotted amount of free chemicals, so he has purchased more in-season.

For Chris Ellsmore, superintendent, Mohegan Sun Golf Club, Baltic, Conn., it was tricky to sneak a spray application in every 14 days because of the average 200 rounds per day on the 18-hole course.

“For me and our maintenance standards here we need to make our spray program as efficient as possible,” says Ellsmore. “My goal is to spray it less frequently but still get the same control, and to see it working is great. We had a pretty good stretch of dollar spot weather right after an Xzemplar application and we didn’t see disease anywhere.”

In Nokesville, Va., Prince William Golf Course has traditionally been known as a lower-end municipal golf course, but this year with the help of BASF, Superintendent Shawn Gill says their plant health is much better than the high end public, and even some of the private courses, in the area.

“It’s been a tough summer and our fairways have been far and away the best they have ever been for this time of year,” says Gill. “Kyle recommended I spray Honor on the Memorial Day and Independence Day holidays. It’s something I wasn’t able to afford in the past but I may have to afford to do it in the future. The results were fantastic.”

Kyle Miller, BASF’s Senior Market Developmental Specialist, has had constant contact with each of the superintendents and says he is hearing praises for the spray programs he helped design for all four.

“I think the program is going really great, and the superintendents are very happy with the way their courses look,” says Miller. “Growing conditions have been good in most areas but we really like to hear that from the superintendents. When they say it I know their golfers are saying the same thing.”

Check back for updates on these four courses and the Elite Rejuvenation program in future issues of Golfdom.

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