I officially give up on Copper Mill ever getting their greens back.

As a member and home owner I do apologize for the shape of the greens right now. It’s quite embarrassing honestly. We do have plans in the works for new grass for the greens in the future. Our course is subsidized by homeowners and these things just take time.

We had this same issue last year at this time and the super said it would be like last year in that as soon as we get constant warm temps the weeds on the greens will be able to be controlled and improve. They won’t be near perfect but much better than now.

Could the HOA take out a loan to get the greens re-done and that should increase revenue..and lack of driving range keeps some events away

I was told by a homeowner that the poa annua has grown resistance to previously used treatments and the chemical vendors are doing their best to come up with a new formula but the warm weather will make it go dormant. Best thing to do would be get every homeowner to go out on a Sunday evening and start pulling and bagging it and then top dress them.

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I didn’t know this was possible, but here’s an article explaining it. It looks like they need to rotate chemicals. Pulling it wouldn’t hurt.

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it is very much possible for a weed to become resistant to herbicides, just the same as when antibiotics stop working for you. I promise you we all rotate products religiously. we have tried everything that is labeled and then some. Guys in my industry are pulling their hair out trying to find a solution to this, but everytime we think we have one, it doesn't work the next year. Poa is one of the most prolific weeds around the world. each single plant produces hundreds of seeds. the seeds can remain viable in the soil for many years. so killing one plant this year, and what worked to kill that one plant, may not kill that plant that germinates next year. some of us have gotten lucky, but my greens are only 78 years old here at the Golden Nugget and have Poa in some spots. I have hit them with 3 different rotational herbicides and killed maybe 70%. that means that 30% is resistant and will produce resistant plants that produce hundreds of resistant seeds. its a viscious cycle. So stop blaming the superintendent everytime and calling for them to get fired because there is Poa or goose grass on the greens. same issue with both weeds

They are definitely trying to get it right. The have redone some of the bridges, bunkers are in as good of shape as I have ever seen. He said about ago that they would be getting new carts as well.

Plus as the other poster said…. They are supposed to be redoing the greens. You can’t do all of that shite at one time. That guy has done a helluva job in pointing that course in the right direction.

That being said…. They need to punch those fairways. Those frickers are like hitting off of a cart path unless you’re close to the greens. That’s the only thing I’d know to do to help. I don’t think they have much irrigation for the fairways?

Biggest weed I have to contend with is Celebration wanting to creep on my Champion. SoFlo is impeccable. If I see poa immediately blame some golfer tracking it in from Philly.

#2 probably needs some trees removed to get some more sunlight and air onto the tee boxes. It’s kind of a chute from what I recall.

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It's also not a very big tee box and it's crowned, so limited spots to put the tees

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Yes, that's a tough spot. They could connect all of the tees and make it one long box, but you would need to place pipes for drainage for the water to run into that creek bed.

Ive been diving deeper into this herbicide resistance poa.

Here is a group that trying to tackle this problem. This really is interesting.

resistpoa.org

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They could also cut off the last turn in the bridge to #2 and fill in all that area back there and make a really big level tee.

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That would be TONS of dirt to fill in that natural swamp area. It could be done, but would be massively expensive.