Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Interesting data...

The following data was presented in the April 2017 edition of Golf Course Management Magazine:  These numbers represent only golf courses, not home lawns or athletic fields.
 
 
Above: the total acreage of maintained turf in the US.  You can see it has declined- probably due to facilities reducing maintained turf in order to cut costs.  Many have eliminated maintained turf in out of play areas, in turn going for a native grassy look. 
 

There is double the amount of cool season turf in the US compared to warm season grasses like Bermudagrass.  Below, this shows the numbers per grass species:
 
 
 
Above, this chart shows ways that clubs are making improvements to be better environmental stewards.  61% of courses are upgrading irrigation systems so less water is used and less power is consumed.