Thursday, October 08, 2020

Autumn Shade


Every Autumn, the sun angle changes to a lower point in the sky.  This creates more shade on our greens.  These are just two examples, #3 and #8.  In these two cases, sunlight doesn't reach the green until after 11:00am.  This makes for an incredibly challenging situation.  Keeping a dense stand of turf on the greens isn't easy and requires backing off maintenance practices because the turf isn't as resilient as turf growing in full sun.