While on the topic of roots, this photo is representative of quite a few areas in our roughs right now. During years where we have extreme quantities of rainfall like this year, the ground stays saturated. Saturated soils will lead to shallow rooted turf because all the water the grass wants is available right at the surface. When it suddenly turns warmer and dryer like it recently has, keeping the bentgrass in the rough healthy becomes difficult. Kentucky Bluegrass on the other hand, handles the warmer and dryer weather much better and one of many reasons it is ideal turf for our roughs. In fact, when the weather stays like it is now, the Kentucky Bluegrass has the competitive advantage. Over the course of a growing season, this is rare. Highlands weather can be summed up as cool and damp most of the time, which gives the bentgrasses and Poa annua the competitive advantage. Highlands is a unique climate and this is the reason why we deal with unique challenges here that are unheard of in other areas around the country.