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The Mower Shed

Notes from the shed where the mowers come back at first light

Turf and greens

Grass species, cutting heights, rolling, aeration, topdressing and the diseases and insects that return every season.

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A greenkeeper in a green pullover walks a dew-covered fairway at sunrise, a club in one hand, with revetted bunkers and a parked mower behind him in the mist.

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Reading Green Speed: The Stimpmeter Explained

A Stimpmeter reading is a single number rolled on a flat strip of green, not a description of the whole surface. How the test is run, what a reading means, and why two greens at the same number can still play differently.