The heat is on!!!

 

 The record breaking heat is back and Oxmoors cool-season turfs are showing much
stress.  I sent out an email today to go along with this blog, so if you did not receive it
please email me at mcoy@oxmoorcoutryclub.com.  If you look closely at the picture
above you will see some light purple color golf cart tracks.  The carts put enormous
stress on bentgrass and this is usually a sign of death to come to the turf.
   



As I wrote in the email, majority of the brown areas in the fairways are a result of heat and
NOT mower scalping or disease. 



 These areas are a result of Poa annua dying out due to heat
stresses. Poa is also a cool-season turf and its survival in the
Kentuckiana area is unlikely.