A little more speed Cancel The title field is required!

1. Bradley Frunchak

   

   24 posts
   
   9/4/2014 6:09 PM

   Which will gain the greens a little more speed?
   
   Cut and roll in same direction
   Cut and roll in opposite direction?
   Cut amd roll in cross direction?

   
   
   
   
2. Rosenthal Gregg

   
   9/4/2014 6:09 PM

   Double cut and roll if you want the ball to roll for sure. That what we do for true events.

   
   
   
   
3. Timothy Kelley

   

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   9/5/2014 12:09 PM

   I single cut then double roll to really speed greens up.
   
   TIm

   
   
   
   
4. Melvin Waldron

   

   43 posts
   
   9/5/2014 4:09 PM

   Speed Kills!
   
   It's killing the game (my opinion any way), sorry, getting off my soap box.
   
   When we want the greens a little smoother, we will topdress the week prior to an event and will if we have the staff, roll and mow the day of. We mow at .156 with a Toro triplex, use Primo, Sili-Kal-B and only when we have fallen off our verticutting program in the spring do we really hear anything about our speed. Penncross on USGA (mostly) greens in the transition zone.
   
   By the way, worked at a college course in Northern Indiana many years ago, followed the same set up and maybe watered a little less due to less heat, and we never had complants about green speed, only difference we mowed with Toro 1000's at .156, triplex was set to .140. When I had students ask what our green speed was, finally got a stimp meter and we were around 9, plenty fast enough on those greens. Main thing they were consistent and smooth.
   
   Mel

   
   Melvin H. Waldron III, CGCS, Horton Smith Golf Course, City of Springfield/Greene County MO
   
   
5. Keith Pegg

   

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   9/6/2014 10:09 PM

   Bradley Frunchak said: Which will gain the greens a little more speed?
   
   Cut and roll in same direction
   Cut and roll in opposite direction?
   Cut amd roll in cross direction?

   
   
   
   Cut and roll in same direction: about 30 - 60 min apart.
   
   Keith

   
   
   
   
6. Joe Wachter

   

   5 posts
   
   9/7/2014 5:09 PM

   Forget double cutting. Rolling morning and then again in evening builds the most speed for me without compromising potential health. Keeps speed and allows you to build for next day. Couple of days of that as long as you are regulated and you will have all the speed they will want.