re: Baton Rouge Golf

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I would rather pay the $80 and actually play golf.

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Not sure why you're pretending Webb is the only course around town. Sure, I wish their greens were in better shape, but they are what they are until they do major renovations. Until then, Webb and City Park are great for getting out for $11 after work and getting some swings in.

Meanwhile, you can pay $50 and play great golf at The Island, Beaver Creek, Santa Maria, and hopefully Copper Mill when they reopen. There's also Greystone, Pelican Point, the new Clark course, and Carter Plantation is a great track within driving distance. Plenty of "actual" public golf in good/great condition around Baton Rouge that's reasonably priced as well that you can play all year long unlike literally half the country. That is my point.

Honestly, the worst part about Baton Rouge golf is the golfers themselves.

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but did you actually have greens you could putt on? Yea, I pay $30 at Webb, but the golf stops once my ball is on the putting surface.

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Come play at Fennwood in Zachary. Greens and course are in great shape. Yes it’s a nine hole course but has two sets of tees that changes the way holes play. Won’t be disappointed Can’t beat it for $40

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My last response from BREC’s director of golf:
Here’s an update on the putting greens at Webb GC.

The putting greens at Webb golf course are overseeded with rye grass during the winter months when the underlying Bermuda grass goes dormant. This year the transition from the rye grass back to the Bermuda grass has been rougher than recent years. The situation was made worse by invasive goosegrass that has slowly infiltrated the greens over the last couple of years. This goosegrass has become resistant to herbicides that used to kill it. Other golf courses in south Louisiana are also battling this goosegrass problem, this isn’t unique to Webb.

The Webb GC putting greens were aerified on 7/10. After the aerification we did some herbicide applications that appear to have been successful in eradicating most of the goosegrass. Unfortunately, killing the goosegrass left some considerable bare areas on a few greens. The greens on holes 8, 10, 14, and 16 are the most affected. Most of the greens still have good, but not complete, Bermuda grass coverage.

In the next few weeks, we will use a strong dose of nutrients along with verti-cutting and solid tine aerification to promote aggressive Bermuda grass growth in the hopes of filling in bare areas. Although hard to see, there is some grass alive in some of the areas that appear bare.

Hopefully we’ll see some strong improvement in the next couple of weeks. Depending on the speed of the improvement we may need to sod areas on a couple of greens. What happens in the next couple of weeks will determine if that’s needed.

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This is good information to know.

Thank you.

Decent point other than most if the courses you named are not in BR. My problem is this-BREC levies a TAX on ALL of EBR. I’m not combing through their annual report or financials but I will bet you all day that golf is their number one (by far) most used facility. Sure Oak Villa for a portion of the year, maybe Liberty Lagoon for a few months, Highland and Independence and aome others for tennis and pickleball. I just asked that the budget and updates and renovations keep pace with what the tax payers use the most!

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The putting greens at Webb golf course are overseeded with rye grass during the winter months when the underlying Bermuda grass goes dormant.

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For the love of God, STOP OVERSEEDING THE GREENS WITH RYEGRASS!

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Decent point other than most if the courses you named are not in BR.

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By this logic, Jacksonville public golf is relatively poor. But also Ponte Vedra (Sawgrass) / St. Johns / St. Augustine golf (World Golf Village) is great.

"Houston golf" is pretty limiting. Thankfully Memorial Park is in city borders (even though you have to reserve a tee time 3 weeks out). But The Woodlands golf and Sugarland golf are great. Same with Birmingham, Memphis, Nashville, etc.

Though, I do agree that I wish we had one or two more nice public courses in or just outside Baton Rouge city limits.

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For the love of God, STOP OVERSEEDING THE GREENS WITH RYEGRASS!

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Uh oh, Leblanc will be here soon to berate you on how this is wrong or what excuse the management at Webb has for doing this. And then he’ll throw in how long he’s been a superintendent and how everyone needs to shut up

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are they allowing the public back on?

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Yes

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Uh oh, Leblanc will be here soon to berate you on how this is wrong or what excuse the management at Webb has for doing this. And then he’ll throw in how long he’s been a superintendent and how everyone needs to shut up

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I'm not going to tell you to shut up. if you want, I'll explain why they overseed greens. I'm just tired of seeing the superintnednets getting bashed constantly on this forum. I don't overseed greens anymore, because I don't have a huge POA problem yet on greens, and I don't get a lot of winter play. People complain about POA on greens, so they overseeded to provide a smoother putting surface during the winter months and spring. Unfortunaly the transition went poorly. you will probably see more courses overseeeding greens again as the POA issue becomes more widespread. the POA plants are becoming resistant to the hericides we have at our disposal and a lot of companies won't label herbicides for use on putting greens because of the liability it carries. I hope that the guys it BRec have a successful rest of the growing season, and get the greens ready for the fall golf push.

Leblanc

Genuine curiosity. I’ve read where you’ve stated that Poa has become immune to some of the herbicides. Why do some courses not have a problem? Like Fenwood for example. Not saying they’ve never had any in the greens, but it’s never been a problem.