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1. Joshua Sawyer

   

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   5/24/2016 7:05 AM

   Is anybody growing Latitude 36 bermudagrass? I am looking at a potential tee renovation in the next couple of years and looking at options vs. 419. Mid scale private course in SC, tree lined, shady course in the foothills of the mountains. Zoysia does OK, but doesn't tolerate our traffic well in the winter. I would love to hear any good, bad, ugly from some bermuda alternatives growing in the Upper Transition or Mid Atlantic. Thanks.

   
   
   
   
2. Anthony Nysse

   

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   5/24/2016 2:05 PM

   Joshua Sawyer said: Is anybody growing Latitude 36 bermudagrass? I am looking at a potential tee renovation in the next couple of years and looking at options vs. 419. Mid scale private course in SC, tree lined, shady course in the foothills of the mountains. Zoysia does OK, but doesn't tolerate our traffic well in the winter. I would love to hear any good, bad, ugly from some bermuda alternatives growing in the Upper Transition or Mid Atlantic. Thanks.

   
   
   
   Starting planting our entire course with it today. Sodding areas this week, sprigging 9 holes next week.

   
   
   
   
3. Philip Cook

   

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   5/25/2016 8:05 AM

   We've been using it in collars and and a few tee areas and it has been excellent; beautiful grass, it can be mowed very low, minimal encroachment in greens, and has excellent winter hardiness. The only blemish we have seen so far is that it might be sensitive to Ronstar Flo, though that might be because it greens up so early in the spring. I think that issue will be manageable as we move forward. I have also heard that it can be puffy/thatchy, but that's also manageable (I have not seen this yet on ours).
   
   All and all, it has been very impressive for lower cut areas.
   
   joshua

   
   
   
   
4. David Stone

   

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   5/25/2016 10:05 AM

   Put it on new range tees and fairway in 2015 + nursery. We have also put it in a few spots mowed short (3/8"). So far we love the grass. Texture seems to be as fine as 419 was years ago (before so much of it got contaminated, it change or what ever makes most not as fine as the old stuff was). Seems to spread fast. Ours came from Oakwood Sod in Maryland.
   
   David Stone
   The Honors Course
   Chattanooga, Tn.

   
   
   
   
5. Joshua Sawyer

   

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   5/25/2016 3:05 PM

   Thanks guys...anybody overseeding it? I would love to break my overseed cycle, but we have a ton of winter play and need tees in shape for late May, early June tournaments. Usually with the 419, I am holding on to my overseed (even though I don't want to) to get through tourney, then checking it out in late June. I would love to find a turf that I felt like I could paint and get up an running early in season without an overseed.

   
   
   
   
6. Anthony Nysse

   

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   5/26/2016 6:05 AM

   I would agree with what many of the above have said. We have mowed it as tight as .275" with 3-4oz of Primo weekly. Its color and texture was so much better than our 30 year old 419 and was the best looking turf through our el Nino winter with over 400% rain and a span of 40 of 59 days with cloud cover.
   It does not have that "bluish" color that Tifgrand or Celebration has and the farm where we are getting all out sod from, planting our fields in late November and it would have ben ready to harvest mid April. They felt that it established fasted than Celebration because of how many nodes on each stolen and more tillers than Celebration, even, increasing establishment.
   I know there is a course in PA that no tilled it last summer and it is being used on tees in the Philadelphia area. Early green up, holds its color into the fall longer.

   
   
   
   
7. Michael Hummel

   

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   5/26/2016 8:05 AM

   Tony:
   
   Which farm are you getting the sod? I had been watching a new release from Georgia called "Tuff Turf" that did well in trials so I did not know the cultivar you are using. I would like to look at it at your club some time.

   
   
   
   
8. Anthony Nysse

   

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   5/26/2016 9:05 AM

   Michael Hummel said: Tony:
   
   Which farm are you getting the sod? I had been watching a new release from Georgia called "Tuff Turf" that did well in trials so I did not know the cultivar you are using. I would like to look at it at your club some time.

   
   
   JW Turf is growing our turf from original field stock.