Saw a lot of turf professionals this week & a universal theme keeps coming up; Poa is unreliable. We all know how difficult it is to keep it away (it's everywhere!), but when the times get tough; it leaves. You cannot guarantee truly consistent conditions when poa is part of the plan.
The people that seem to have the most success are those that get the leadership of their golf course involved in implementing a long term grassing plan. Maybe there is not much you can do, but one thing is clear: what is happening to the poa right now is not entirely the superintendents fault (i.e. June members guest, greens that have outlived their lifespan, fertility budgets that have been cut, etc). But if you ask the members, pro shops, or the guys who pay for Saturday morning tee times & I will bet 90-100% of them say that golf maintenance should do something about it. I say this because as bad as this year is; this summer is more normal than last year (ask any person whose lived in the mid Atlantic for more than 20 years). Knowing that, what will you do so this does not happen again? And whose fault will it be if it does?
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