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Adding native grass areas to a course? Any experience?

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Doug Siebert:

--- Quote from: Steve Lang on November 21, 2004, 02:51:52 PM ---5)  the first thing folks would ask is how many ball you lost or found versus your score!

6)  the horrible look and airborne stuff resulting from when you chop it down due to overgrowth or going back to simple grassed rough areas..

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5) Sounds like Muirfield...

6) If it is truly native grass, you shouldn't be "chopping it down", you burn it!  My home course has a number of areas of longer grass, which is just the regular bluegrass/rye rough allowed to grow unhindered.  There is also one area of a few acres of true native prairie grass that grows to about 6-8 feet tall just like it did here 200 years ago.  It is burnt off each fall, which is how native prairie areas are supposed to be managed (kills weeds & any trees wanting to spring up, but the prairie grasses regrow without additional seeding required)

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