Tournament talks

I spent eight days at Hazeltine National Golf Club during the US Amateur Championship. I was especially interested to see the green conditions because of the way the Penn A-4 creeping bentgrass in a USGA sand rootzone (constructed in 2010) is managed by course superintendent Chris Tritabaugh. During the championship, the greens were mown at 0.110 inches (2.8 mm) in the morning, followed by a roll. No mowing or rolling were done in the afternoons. The greens are fertilized according…