"Bad rinks", "bad roads on rinks", "straight hands", "off the heads", just some of the multitude of anecdotal evidence for poor bowling green performance. Meantime the real causes of problem greens are not only missed, but are actually being perpetuated by some of the maintenance practice we employ. The Objective Measurement of Bowls Green Performance is long overdue so we can move on and start to work on the real issues.
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Bowling green smoothness and trueness are measurable concepts and the data can be used to ensure that the ideal maintenance program is followed to make your green perform to previously unattained levels of excellence.
Bowling Green Maintenance Diary July Here we are at the height of summer and the busiest playing time on the bowing green and a busy time for the greenkeeper. If the weather hasn’t been too hot and water levels are correct, then you should still be seeing steady daily growth which means the mower will …
The watering of bowling greens is one of those critical issues in bowling that splits opinion across the game. Some purists would see no artificial watering of greens regardless of how dry the weather gets. Some are in favour to different degrees; some would argue that the green should only be watered enough to keep …
A very general title for today’s article, but it reflects the current industry desire for a fix all solution to achieving a good bowling green. Most clubs are unhappy to some extent with the performance of their bowling greens. This leads to an open ended search for solutions where the searcher i.e. the bowling club …
Have you ever played a great game of bowls when everything on the green was perfect; you read every twitch on the rink and it seemed like you had finally got the green the way you wanted it. The disappointment when you return to the green the very next day, prepare the rink in completely …
After LDP there is probably more information on this site about Thatch than anything else. Thatch production by grass plants is a natural process. Thatch is the layer at the very top of the green surface between the green grass blades and the brown soil beneath. Simply put; the bigger the distance between the green …
We’ve just had the most amazing Wimbledon fortnight; lovely weather for the most part and to top it off the first British Men’s Singles winner for over 70 years. One issue that has cropped up over and over again is the fact that the courts at Wimbledon are actively protected from rain and moisture during …
Concentrate on minimising lateral grass growth for greater speed and smoothness. OK, so this is probably a bit late for this year, but keep a note of it for future reference. This has been a popular question on the site. The readers who searched on variations of this theme were essentially asking, “What can be …
