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The Effect of Creeping Bentgrass Growth on Greenspeed  

Kwon, Il-Woo (Ground Maintenance Team, Samsung Everland inc.)
Lee, Dong-Hee (Ground Maintenance Team, Samsung Everland inc.)
Choi, Byuong-Man (Ground Maintenance Team, Samsung Everland inc.)
Tae, Hyun-Sook (Turfgrass & Environment Research Institute, Samsung Everland inc.)
Shin, Dong-Hyun (School of Applied Biosciences, Kyungpook National University)
Publication Information
Asian Journal of Turfgrass Science / v.25, no.2, 2011 , pp. 223-228 More about this Journal
Abstract
This research was performed to investigate change of green speed according to growth of grass, for this, the method of effective green management for improvement of green speed was searched by investigating green density, soil moisture, surface hardness, and mowing height every day for 6 months. As the result of the study, reliability between, green density, soil moisture, surface hardness, mowing height and green speed were measured to be respectively 0.4742, 0.5690, 0.4632, 0.2806, i.e. soil moisture is considered as the factor which affects green speed the most. Therefore, it will be an advantageous environment to maintain soil moisture a little bit low to improve green speed within the range that does not disrupt the growth of green. In case of green density, it is considered to be effective to get a fast green speed when obtaining enough density during May~June, the most vigorous growth period and at the same time green up period. Surface hardness was confirmed that management work as rolling is a considerably effective method to increase hardness. However, rolling gives high stress to the green, combining another management work as regular hilling could be a good alternative. Reliability of green preview and green speed was 0.2806, lower than soil moisture or surface hardness. Through the results, it was confirmed that management of mowing height to be low less than 3.00 mm is helpful to improve green speed, timely, and it is advantageous to manage green speed when adjusting mowing height during the vigorous growth period of bent grass. However, considering the range of mowing height was not various, being 2.9~3.4 mm, henceforth research on investigation of green speed at more various mowing heights would be necessary. Consequently, except mowing height, other three factors, i.e. green density, soil moisture and surface hardness were investigated to have considerable level of reliability on green speed, and it is considered that each factor affects green speed respectively according to green condition and time. Accordingly, in order for the manager to maintain high speed all year round, intensive care for each factor per time unit considering green growth condition is considered to be necessary.
Keywords
Density; Greenspeed; Mowing Height; Soil Moisture; Surface Hardness;
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