Drought stress

Drought stress continues to strike irrigated areas of the country. One of the common causes of drought stress follows attempts to dry-down greens by reducing irrigation run times or frequency of irrigation in preparation for tournaments. Unfortunately, even the best design in irrigation does not provide sufficiently uniform coverage for this practice to be successful during the high evapotranspiration days of the summer. If you want to dry greens down for tournament play during the summer, implement a hand watering…