Why Do Golf Courses Aerate Putting Greens?
If there’s one thing most golfers can agree on, it’s their dislike for putting green aeration. However, the many benefits of aeration more than outweigh the short-term inconvenience.
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Because you want to putt on a green. Nobody wants to putt on a brown anymore
The issue is not aeration. The issue is clubs charging full price when the greens are still recovering. (Especially the day or two after)
Nice bel-air
A BIG problem is courses that only do a half-ass job and put down very little sand afterwards
This is an interesting video, but it's misleading as to the primary benefits of aeration by soil-core removal. The primary benefit is NOT the removal of thatch. The cores, at best, make up a relatively small surface area since they are spaced so far apart. Therefore, the thatch removed in the cores is a very small percentage of all the thatch on the putting surface. Thatch is best removed by verticutting, not aeration. The real reason aeration is performed on putting greens is to lessen compaction thus opening the turf to water, nutrients and air. Compaction is a result of the constant foot traffic on the putting surface, often when the soil is wet, which makes compaction even worse. The subsequent topdressing with sand after soil-core aeration helps to fill in the cores and has a secondary beneficial effect on thatch decomposition.
Whoa! I thought Youtube had rules against graphic content! This is violence towards beautiful greens!
Joking aside, this is a very good video educating others about the necessities of it!
Verticutting works well as also to control thatch during grow season
Mobsters that will not obey the course closed and drive right over the plugs that were done by a greens aerator on the fairways all of them a few hours later and then threatens operator with golf cart
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