NCGA Area of Emphasis-Daily Maintenance Operations: Greens Mowing.

Providing the best play surface possible is our goal at TPC Stonebrae. Some of the keys to maintaining a quality and healthy putting surface is the quality of cut, and  frequency. Which is why we prefer to walk mow greens 6 days a week, and only triplex one day when we are short staff. One thing we do here which I've never experienced before is using brushes on the walkmowers, which we will usually use 3-4 days a week. The benefit of the brushes is to stand up the bentgrass to increase the quality of cut and to promote upright growth, which helps with other cultural practices such as topdressing.



This is a font look at the brush system that our mechanic John Cunnigham has created.



This is an overhead look at the brushes on the basket.

Here is a side view of the brush attachment, which can easily be removed.

This is how much grass we got making about 10 passes in a couple directions.

This is a video to give you an example of how the brush attachment works.