Today the golf maintenance team started the process of the putting surface reclamation project by spraying the encroaching celebration grass with Roundup herbicide. The Roundup herbicide is a non-selective chemical that is taken in through the plant leaf and kills the plant within 7-10 days.
The plant will begin showing faint signs of dying sometime this weekend. There will be no signs of anything done for the Lady's event tomorrow. The course will play and look the same as it did Tuesday.
To make sure the Roundup doesn't drift off target the Maint team made some drift shields out of some thin paneling board and used some smaller lumber pieces as handles.
This method provides 100% containment and perfect edges.
Once the Roundup is dry it is absorbed quickly into the plant. Tonight I am having the greens heavily watered and the remaining blue ring around the greens, which is essentially just a colorant like food dye, will wash into the soil and you'll never know we were there.
Again, the grass won't show signs of being sprayed until this weekend.
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