Video: Watch out for summer patch escapes

Even the best preventive programs allow a few pests to escape, and during the late summer, summer patch escapes on poa greens are a common example of this problem.

The disease usually shows up as small patches of unthrifty looking poa. Only the trained eye would be able to detect the symptoms, and golfers usually don't notice these early symptoms at all. However, what starts as an unthrifty patch of turf can end up as an unsightly patch of thin…