Played Tidewater a few days ago -- it was in good shape overall, although they're having a bit of trouble with the fringes (which seems to happen regularly there for some reason).
Also, there were big piles of unopened grass seed bags behind every green. I'm wondering what exactly they're planning to do with them; has anyone heard about any scheduled work there?
I have noticed for a few years that TW is often sodding in some fringes and edges
of some greens. It doesn't affect play, but some of the greens are so big, that they
can afford to widen the fringe in areas the edge of the green doesn't grow well.
It's not overseed time and the bermuda will start growing soon, so I don't have
a theory about the grass seed. Did you see any dead areas that would look better
with some seed?
Thanks!
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Not really -- certainly not enough to account for the amount of seed they had out there. It wasn't like they had one or two bags per hole; a couple of holes had 10+ bags piled up behind the green.
The only thing I could think of was that they were going to try to reseed all the fringes, since they had weeds and/or invasive grass growing in spots (the greens themselves were fine and in very good shape). The amount of seed out there seemed like too much just for that, though.
I'm not sure why I didn't ask in the pro shop after the round. Just wasn't thinking about it at the time, I guess.
If it's grass seed, my guess is they would plant it around the greens
for looks for peak season or to have some rough around the greens
for a tournament.
It's probably going to be for looks, because by the time it gets thick,
the heat will kill it like the rest of the overseed.
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It’s the tarps to cover the greens.
@metric It was bags of grass seed.
I assumed they were tarps when I first saw them, but I walked up to check after a few holes and nope, it was a pile of grass seed bags.
It is possible they had bags of grass seed piled on top of tarps to hold them down, though. I’ve never seen a course use grass seed for that but maybe they did for some reason.
