Zoysia grass growing in clumps

Grass looks good. How high you cutting? You ever dethatch?

Almost the exact same thing here. 3 years old. Growing in clumps. Still a good bit of brown and I rented a thatcher this year and got after it.

I think you have zoysia mites. Very hard to treat. Repeated applications of bifenthrin can help.

Are there uneven spots/divots in the yard that allow those spots/divots to get cut higher from the root than other areas? That may be the cause of the runner stems going vertical and the blades growing out of them at an elevated starting point. In other words, in most areas those runners are growing horizontal/flat, but are growing vertical/up in some places, presumably from a higher cut point. I don't see a thatch problem in your pics, although de-thatching would invariably thin that out. But I think periodic scalping down really low may be the only way to stop that. As long as those runner/stems exist, that's the starting point for growth.

better than the dude on the OB with claw feet
that shite still haunts me

So download an app and a zoom in picture is showing this as Bermuda grass. Looks like it’s trying to grow over the zoysia and that could be the issue?






Or is this the same grass in both pictures?