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Audubon golf catastrophe?

Posted on 4/16/24 at 1:04 pm
Posted by whichyalnoaboutseven
Metairie
Member since Dec 2009
2029 posts
Posted on 4/16/24 at 1:04 pm
My wife heard from one of her coworkers that the greenskeeper at Audubon sprayed round up accidentally all over the course and a lot of the course is dead. Haven’t seen anything online or on the news. Can anyone confirm this?

Update: just the greens. But all 18 of them
This post was edited on 4/16/24 at 1:11 pm
Posted by BlastOff
New Orleans
Member since Feb 2016
767 posts
Posted on 4/16/24 at 1:06 pm to
Played it a couple weeks ago, most of the greens were packed dirt. It was pretty, pretty bad. I can believe the Round Up story.
Posted by Swagga
504
Member since Dec 2009
16193 posts
Posted on 4/16/24 at 1:18 pm to
Last time I played out there the greens were fried so this does track.

Really ashame because the course was just starting to bounce back from the disaster they let it become during COVID.


I genuinely wouldn’t be surprised if they were intentionally trying to tank a once beautiful golf course.
Posted by dpd901
South Louisiana
Member since Apr 2011
7524 posts
Posted on 4/16/24 at 1:31 pm to
Any info on when this may have happened? My golf league played there in March and they were basically dirt then.
This post was edited on 4/16/24 at 1:32 pm
Posted by CBandits82
Lurker since May 2008
Member since May 2012
54182 posts
Posted on 4/16/24 at 2:18 pm to
How does that happen?

I worked there while I was a student at LSU over two summers inn 2003 and the place was a well-oiled machine.

The Superintendent was a badass back then.
Posted by Chicken
Jackassistan
Member since Aug 2003
22041 posts
Posted on 4/16/24 at 2:31 pm to
quote:

My wife heard from one of her coworkers that the greenskeeper at Audubon sprayed round up accidentally
former greenskeeper?
Posted by GillGo37
Nola
Member since May 2006
851 posts
Posted on 4/16/24 at 6:13 pm to
I know for the last month and 1/2 it was cart path only. One of the guys told me some Tulane kids were playing and fcked the course up bad. This was in February
Posted by HooDooWitch
TD Bronze member
Member since Sep 2009
10273 posts
Posted on 4/16/24 at 7:44 pm to
Plenty of hot young girls
jogging / walking / jiggling
care.
Posted by BonesMalone
Member since May 2019
181 posts
Posted on 4/17/24 at 10:13 am to
Was there a good amount of Poa on the greens this winter?
Just wondering, because if there was….and really nothing kills Poa because of resistance, Roundup might have been used at a low dose.
Desperate times….and they went a little strong?
Posted by Grebe
Member since Jan 2015
192 posts
Posted on 4/17/24 at 10:21 am to
I've played it twice. The greens are dead. Two were so unplayable that they cut temporary greens into the fairway as an alternative. The staff person that I spoke to said that they got the okay from Audubon to spend money remediating the greens. With any luck, this mishap will lead to long-term improvement.
Posted by WhiskeyThrottle
Weatherford Tx
Member since Nov 2017
5344 posts
Posted on 4/17/24 at 11:00 am to
A local Fort Worth course (Rockwood) had just had a multi million taxpayer funded remodel of their golf course in the last year or two. The greenskeeper had taken some time off for some reason and someone did something similar but to all the greens. They ended up having to create temporary greens for quite some time, right after the remodel when they should have likely been repaying for the remodel. It was pretty bad.
Posted by LeTurdTheFerg
Member since Dec 2018
211 posts
Posted on 4/17/24 at 3:15 pm to
I live a few minute away so I'm out there quite a bit and have a decent rapport with a lot of the guys that work there. They were telling me a couple of weeks ago that they have a ton of restrictions with what they can use to treat the grass because of all the wildlife and they can't trim back any of the oak trees.

They have been trying to get funding from the Audubon commission to redo all of the greens, but are getting a ton of push back. Regardless the greens are a disaster right now. Frustrating because its such a fun track.
Posted by Rendevoustavern
Member since May 2018
1556 posts
Posted on 4/24/24 at 4:07 pm to
This happened at MCC in Winter 2018/19 but I vaguely remember it being the first 7 holes before they figured it out. The greens were absolute glass that winter and then dead AF Jan/Feb and for a very long time. 7 was in terrible shape for the longest time it resorted to being nearly all sand.

I really want Audubon to be primo again, it is a fun track that doesn't take up an entire day and more importantly a work day afternoon. Hopefully this will assist them in making it happen.
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