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The article goes on to detail two opposing forces that impact drainage : gravity and capillary attraction . “ The main factor in capillary attraction is the size of the pore spaces in the soil ,” Moreland stated . “ Smaller pore spaces have stronger capillary attraction than large ones .”
This issue also included a golf course management article about a mysterious case of summerkill on the bentgrass greens , collars and fairways at Bald Peak Colony Club in Melvin Village , New Hampshire .
“ When patches of bentgrass died mysteriously every summer even though test results showed nothing wrong , superintendent Roland White did his own investigation . The culprit revealed was the nematodes , a pest not usually a problem in the Northeast .”
As is the case with other early issues of SportsTurf , the April 1986 issue included a lot of golf course management content , with one article about the golf course boom and another about golf course design and maintenance .
“ Today ’ s high-performance golf clubs and balls enable the better golfers , for whom the hazards were designed , to avoid them and score too well . These hazards are also causing poorer golfers to score higher than they should ,” said John Watson , president of the American Society of Golf Course Architects . “ Therefore , golf course architects are developing master plans to phase in new tees and greens , reposition bunkers , and add water retention ponds for both aesthetic and preservation purposes .”
The editorial opinion page in this issue urged readers to take a chance on progress . “ One of the main reasons why the sports turf market has not kept up with available technology is a general disagreement among experts over field construction and maintenance methods ,” wrote Associate Publisher Bruce Shank . “ To wait until research has settled all disagreements could destroy much of the healthy momentum now in the market .” SFM
All content for this section is pulled from the SportsTurf / SportsField Management archives , an ongoing cooperative project of EPG Brand Acceleration , SFMA and the Michigan State University Libraries ( https :// sturf . lib . msu . edu / index . html ). sportsfieldmanagementonline . com December 2023 | SportsField Management
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