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Bentgrass

Bentgrass

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Sep 18, 2026

Chris HartwigerGUEST
18:55
Well, to put my answer in what I would consider to be a good context, John, I think about the time when I worked on a golf maintenance crew and when I started as a USGA agronomist.
Chris HartwigerGUEST
19:11
And again, Bentgrass was the considered to be the standard in the southeast and water management was and is super important if you're going to have successful bent grass in the in the southeast and so as an agronomist that was just learning i would ask people how they assessed moisture how did they teach their crew david stone used a pocket knife and rubbed the blade but it was a certain It was a certain type of pocket knife.
Chris HartwigerGUEST
19:45
It was a Barlow.
Chris HartwigerGUEST
19:47
Others had an old golf shaft, kind of quasi-manufactured to be a soil probe, and you'd rub the soil between your fingers.
Steve SmithHOST
72:10
And there's been a great deal of change to the golf course at Royal Perth Golf Club.
Steve SmithHOST
72:16
Pure Distinction Bentgrass has been used on the new greens, so it's going to be interesting to hear how they are performing as they mature.
Steve SmithHOST
72:23
Look, well done to Superintendent Pat Casey and his entire course team, the golf club and its membership, and of course, architects Harley Cruz and Clayton DeVries-Pont, as I mentioned, including Lucas Michel, who's been doing work on the ground there in a lot of the shaping as part of this transformation of Royal Perth Golf Club.
Steve SmithHOST
72:40
Very exciting.

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