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Archive Home > 2009 > April > 08 > Troubled greens

Troubled greens

Widgi Creek is replacing seven of its 18 bentgrass putting surfaces that were overtaken by Poa annua

By Zack Hall / The Bulletin
April 8, 2009

Widgi Creek Golf Club has had enough of its annual fight against Poa annua on its greens.

The southwest Bend course, which opened 18 years ago with plush bentgrass greens, is like nearly every golf course in the Pacific Northwest that was originally seeded with bentgrass.

Slowly, the greens have....

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