We have moss on some of our greens. Moss has been a recent phenomenon on putting greens. It has really made a presence in the past 10 years. It is related to many things that we do to our greens to make them putt nice and smooth. Things such as mowing short, low fertility, rolling, and double cutting all promote moss. We have been spraying a herbicide since I started at Staley to suppress the moss.
We are going to ramp up the program starting to try to eradicate this nuisance. I have spoken to many colleagues that have overcame this problem and I am going to take a few tricks I have learned and apply them to our greens.
The aeration program that we have should improve the upper tier drainage of the greens helping us keep this pest at bay.
I expect to see weekly improvements with ultimate success in a few months. Once we shrink the moss the bentgrass will fill as it does with ball marks.
Now that we have moss on the greens we will always treat with a herbicide too keep it suppressed but you shouldn't see any major infestation next year.
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