Photo of the week: Converting quickly from bentgrass to poa greens

While many have witnessed the gradual (and undesired) conversion of bentgrass greens to poa, there is sometimes a benefit to speeding up the process, as superintendent Candice Combs, CGCS of Torrey Pines GC discovered in the run up to the 2008 USGA Open. Note the dramatic difference between the start of her team's efforts in 2005 (blue line) when poa levels were in the 20 percent range, to only two years later (black line) when almost all greens were at…