The course recently hosted the LPGA CME Group Titleholders event and the players were impressed with the playability.
The Celebration Bermuda Grass responded gorgeously to the environmentally-friendly fairway program with visible results on first application. Those results also lasted, Bach said.
He’s so sold on the sustainable fairways program provided by Geganics that he’s using it on his other course as he prepares to host the Ace Group Classic.
Greenkeeper John Peach shares how Geganics on Kikuyu grass leads to spectacular fairways at Paarl Golf Club in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa in just one week. This gorgeous 27-hole course originally opened in 1908 before being relocated and redesigned in 2000 by David Frost and Danie Obermeyer, who brought the Berg River further into play. Learn more about the course here http://www.paarlgolfclub.co.za
Geganics is a customizable fairway program provided by Geoponics Corp that ensures healthy soils leading to vibrant turf. The organic products manage water movement, aerobic diversity, sodium flocculation, lateral and vertical growth and soil nutrients just to name a few benefits.
This sustainable program leads to vibrant color and turf uniformity that superintendents and golf course members alike notice very quickly.
It’s easy, it’s environmentally-friendly and it’s affordable. Contact us for more information.
info@GeoponicsCorp.com 1-877-667-6330.
Testimonial: Tim Haskins, Golf Course Superintendent, The Quarry
When you’re sitting here talking to someone, it makes sense, but until you actually get out in the field and see it work, you don’t really get it.
I can tell you that after spraying Geganics I was on the phone going, “Wow. I’ve never seen anything like that.”
I’ve never seen too many products have an affect on color and this product did. It’s noticeable within an hour or two. My members see a noticeable change.
I’m in a much better spot this year from last year in terms of my color, my density, my moisture management.
We’re getting three or four weeks out of the longevity of the color, which is fantastic. Last year, we actually used a pigment on the fairways just to add a little bit of color. We won’t have to use that this year because of the program. There’s no reason for it.
Look and listen to this superintendent’s experience here:
Try it today. One application and you see a difference!
Ballyhack Golf Club in Roanoke, VA is spectacular and Superintendent Billy Bobbit keeps it that way. About the course: www.BallyhackGolfClub.com
Geoponics Corp recently caught up with Superintendent Billy Bobbit, of Ballyhack Golf Club in Roanoke, VA to see how things were going on his course.
This gorgeous course is made up of mostly cool season grasses. As Ballyhack’s superintendent, Bobbit said he struggled with the high sodium, sandy soil and bicarbonates. These issues led to challenges with water management, nutrient absorption and algae.
The solutions to all three, said Ballyhack Superintendent Billy Bobbit, were found with Geoponics products. Agriox, Penterra and Detox turned the greens around in just one or two applications.
Bobbit’s colleagues recommended he try Geoponicsabout a year ago, so he did. Now, he’s recommending Geoponics to others.
BOBBIT ON THE CHALLENGES:
The high sodium and high salt levels caused water infiltration challenges. Water wasn’t getting into the green cavity. The water standing on the surface was causing multiple problems, one being algae. That was from the water not getting down into the soil cavity. We had sodium toxicity from the turf taking up so much salt.
THE SOLUTIONS:
The Penterra was allowing the water to get through that layer on top and actually get down into the root zone where the water was needed. Most of our root zones here are down 6, 8, maybe even 10 inches into the sand. We really needed the water to move through the profile. Penterra did that, which also helped eliminate the algae. We were spraying the Penterra every 10 to 14 days.
We always kind of struggled with algae here. We typically sprayed a fungicide on them—which checked the algae if you will, but we never really got any results out of fungicide like we wanted to see. We were cultivating—spiking and aerifying—and we still didn’t get the algae. Once we started using the Geoponics it really started to get the results we were after ,even with the first to second application.
We started using Geoponics last year when a colleague recommended it.
But I have to say, what really, really turned the greens around was the Agriox product. It freed up the nutrients in the soil, or in the sand I should say, and we really got a good growth response out of that. We saw a difference after the first application.
The greens kind of perked up and the health of the greens really changed. Then after we did the second application it really, really came to life then.
There was just so much with the salt build up in the soil, the bicarbonate, once we were able to break up those chemical bonds and free up those nutrients that were in the soil, the greens just really started to grow and out-compete the algae.
The first week in July I thought we were going to do a lot of seeding and plugging on the greens, but really after that second application of Agriox, the greens really responded well. I would definitely recommend it.
The greens just really did a 180. They just turned around. We thought, like I said, we’d be doing a lot of seeding and plugging on the greens just to get a uniform turf coverage out there. But it just really grew out of that funk and we haven’t looked back since.
I can see where the fertilizer spending is decreasing and we’re lowering the input of fertilizer on the greens. I can see us not having to use nearly as much as we’re keeping the water moving through the soil profile and getting those nutrients from being bound up in the sand.
Try for yourself. Contact Geoponics Corp, info@geoponicscorp.com, to see how these and other products may solve the challenges you face as a turf manager.
Public golf course built in 1988, features bentgrass greens and several water features. Architecture by Xenophon Hassenplug.
Superintendent:
Eliezer “Papo” Rodriguez
Challenges:
Low-laying land leads to holding a lot of water and flooding; tight taxpayer-based budget.
Product:
Penterra is a soil penetrant and soil surfactant for addressing hydrophobic profiles and horizons. Penterra keeps soils from locking up, aggregates clay soils, improves soil structure and allows water and oxygen to better reach plant roots by reducing the surface tension between the water and the soil. Penterra assists fertilizers and plants by increasing plant nutrient uptake and keeping the soil aerobic by increasing the amount of oxygen exchanged with the soil profile.
Penterra increases the activity of aerobic micro-organisms necessary for a healthy soil profile environment secondary to water movement. Beneficial secondary effects to LDS (Localized Dry Spot) are noticed to the applied areas quickly.
Superintendent’s Results:
Five Ponds Golf Club
“Penterra dries the course very quickly. I fell in love with it! The first time I tried it, there was a big storm coming the next day, so I sprayed the Penterra the day before. It poured all night long!
I came back at 4 o’clock in the morning. I was surprised…. the fairways usually hold water and there was no water on the fairways.
It’s very fast! Plus, Penterra gives it a beautiful green color. My main concern is holding too much water though. We get a lot of rain. This left us with no puddles on there or nothing.”
Other comments:
“I’ve been in the golf business since I was 15. I’ve tried a lot of products, a lot of surfactants. Nothing worked this well and this fast. Nothing! Plus, it’s a low rate and affordable.”
