Over that past few weeks we have noticed some cool season brown patch on our putting greens. This disease is common when you have continuously wet leaf blades of at least 10 hours or so. Cloudy weather, humid nights and dew increase disease severity. Brown patch is also particularly bad on areas the have been fertilized with excessive nitrogen. This winter we have been fertilizing more than usual to try and keep the greens growing throughout the winter. We sprayed a fungicide called Daconil Weather Stik at 4.9oz/m and by the end of the week we had control on the disease. Attached are some pictures of brown patch that was on our putting green and our assistant superintendent Craig Robinson spraying fungicide last week. We also had Terry Sisco with Sisco Turf Services come in and take care of some stumps we had on the course. Terry ground down 27 stumps in about 8 hours and really cleaned up the course. Attached are some pictures and also a video of Terry in action on #11. Terry will be back on the property next month to deep tine our greens again during aerification. 
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