Men’s Journal captured the challenges faced by golf course superintendents everywhere as Masters Week 2014 comes to a close. Brace yourself for the expectations that your course looks and plays just like Augusta. But maybe you don’t have that underground piping sucking out any extra water in the soil or an unlimited budget or a volunteer staff so happy just to be there and so huge they could make a small city. We know.
Masters Week comes to a close and golf course superintendents are ready to hear the comparisons to their course conditions.
Geoponics is a Naples-based company, so it was great to see the national magazine talk to a Naples, Fla., golf course superintendent in the article from writer Charlie Hanger. The Men’s Journal article also features some interesting figures on how Augusta’s water management saves on chemicals– however it’s not light on fuel, according to the reporting.
In the mean time, what do you think? With a rise in rustic courses, do you think environmental care is trumping manicured (perhaps overly manicured) golf courses and landscapes in some cases?
Ireland and Scotland are home to some of the best, oldest and most famous golf courses in the world. Water management, flushing sodium from soil and other practices are key to their success.
Geoponics and ProGrass partner to offer the top golf clubs of Ireland & Scotland products to best manage all sorts of soil conditions, including silty, heavy soil, salty ground water and limestone. Penterra, the world’s fastest-acting soil surfactant, helps deal with surface water, minimizing disease susceptibility. Meanwhile, Detox flushes sodium from the soil.
Here is a look at some of the gorgeous clubs from a previous visit by Geoponics and ProGrass, a distributor servicing the golf courses and athletic fields of Ireland, Scotland and all of the U.K.
Old Head Golf Club, Ireland
Many Golf Courses in Ireland and Scotland flush sodium from soil with Detox and manage water with Penterra, the fastest-acting soil surfactantOld Head Golf Course Kinsale, Co. Cork, Ireland
Visiting the world’s best golf courses: Muirfield, East Lotian, Scotland, UK
ProGrass began offering Geoponics products throughout the U.K., including in Ireland and Scotland with Detox and Penterra being among the top sellers for flushing sodium from soil and for fast-acting soil surfactant. www.Prograss.ie
Geoponcis and ProGrass partner to work with the best golf courses in the world–many are in Scotland and Ireland
Geoponics and ProGrass partner to bring greenskeepers the best solutions for golf course maintenance www.ProGrass.ie
Detox and Penterra are among the most helpful products for greenskeepers in Scotland, Ireland and throughout the U.K. in the spring and summer months
Seaside golf is gorgeous.
Geoponics enjoyed visiting gorgeously green golf courses in Ireland, Scotland and throughout the U.K. in a partnership with ProGrass to provide greenskeepers with the best soil, turf and water management products in the world.
Stunning
Extreme golf
What countryside!
Ireland and Scotland golf courses feature salt water lakes and often wet, salty soil found at many of these courses benefit greatly from Penterra and DetoxThe view is worth the work of managing the soil that often benefits from Detox sodium flushing and Penterra’s fast-acting soil surfactant to get water moving through the soil profile.
Endurant turf colorant for fairways: If you haven’t tried it yet, it’s time you do. You can try it at no cost with our current Wildlife Photo Contest!
Superintendents are saving time, money, water and getting instant results verus overseed using Endurant Turf Colorant. The USGA recommends it as the way to go for the environment and for saving water and money.
Still not sure? How about you win a free trial sample?
Geoponics has frequent contests with chances to win all sorts of prizes, including a sample of Endurant FW through April 15. Just check us out on Twitter or Facebook and share a wildlife photo!
Here is a view of some of prizes you can win:
Win a sample of Endurant FW, turf paint for fairways. Follow us on Twitter, Friend us on Facebook. Share a wildlife photo, a bit about where it was taken, tag us and if you’re selected, let us know where to send the PRIZE.
Prizes you can win in the Goeponics contests held on Facebook and Twitter. Share a photo with us, tag us, let us know about where it was taken and where to send your prize.
Here are a few of the current photos in the running and a few from Geoponics :
Enter the Geoponics Wildlife Photo Contest today! Show us animals, wildflowers– birds, fish, gators– whatever you see, share it with us for a chance to win ENDURANT FW, turf colorant for fairways, or other prizes.
Entry from Mark Paris in the Geoponics WIldlife Photo contest for a chance to win Endurant FW, turf colorant for fairways, or other prizes.
Tom Taylor’s “wild” dog named Billie changing cups on the golf course. Entered in Geoponics WIldlife Photo contest for a chance to win a sample of Endurant FW, turf colorant for fairways, or other prizes
Call 1-877-ECO-GROW, email info@geoponicscorp.com for more information about Endurant FW, other turf colorant products and the Geoponics line of products for turf, soil, ponds, mulch, flowers and trees. Affordable, earth friendly and made for the professional.
Endurant Turf Colorant applied to dormant grass at Atlanta National Golf Course for a cost-effective, instant alternative to overseed. Atlanta National Golf Course in Alpharetta, Georgia recently painted their turf with gorgeous results for instant green grass.
Atlanta National Golf Course in Alpharetta, Georgia recently painted their turf with Endurant Turf Colorant as an alternative to overseed. Pictured is #9 on the Atlanta National Golf Course in Alpharetta, Georgia
A bit about the property:
Pete and P.B. Dye course
Zoysia grass fairways
Bentgrass greens
6,942 yards golf course on 240 acres
More on the Atlanta National Golf Club website, here.
The benefits of Endurant Turf Colorant are numerous. Here are a few:
Instant results
So green you could see it from the moon, as we say.
Save water vs. overseed. Saving golf course superintendents thousands of dollars per acre.
Painting fairways is the way to go with new Endurant FW turf colorant from Geoponics. So green you can see it from the moon!
Instant natural green color saves money, time and water. Geoponics Endurant TC and Endurant TE have been wildly successful. Golf course superintendents asked for it and we answered with Endurant FW, new this year.
Endurant TC, turf colorant, is formulated for dormant grass. Endurant TE, paint with turf enhancer, is formulated for the health of actively growing grass. Now, Endurant FW, colorant for fairways, is– you guessed it– made specifically for use on fairways.
No need for overseed: Endurant FW turf colorant applied at the Club at the Strand.Endurant FW: So green you can see it from the moon! The smart alternative to overseed. Olympia Hills fairway. Texas.
Contact us for information and for free samples available while supplies last. info@geoponicscorp.com
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