“Somewhere a superintendent just felt a disturbance in the turf force.”
– Anonymous Turf Wife
So I was riding around a course with my grass grower the other day when I saw something that made my brain completely stop working.
Now listen…
I've been around this business for FAR too long. I know things about grass the average woman absolutely should not know. I've seen irrigation disasters, bunker blowouts, equipment mishaps, and plenty of “creative” decisions over the years.
But THIS?
This was brand new.
At first glance it looked like someone attempted a little turf repair.
Then I got closer.
Those weren’t pieces of sod.
Those were cup plugs.
Yes.
Those little circular turf donuts that come out of the green every time the hole gets moved in the morning.
Instead of filling the old hole like they’re supposed to…
someone decided they would make a lovely little cart path rut repair kit.
Just a neat little row of green donuts.
Lined up perfectly.
Like someone built a tiny turf bakery display.
I just stood there staring at it thinking:
“What in the actual agronomic crime scene am I looking at?”
Now in someone's defense, they were clearly trying to solve a problem.
And honestly… it was creative.
Very creative.
Unfortunately they solved one problem by creating about fifteen more.
Because those plugs weren’t nursery sod.
They were cut directly from a green.
Yes.
A GREEN.
Which means somewhere on that course there were now several mysterious circular craters where perfectly good cup locations used to be.
Somewhere, a superintendent probably felt a disturbance in the turf force and didn't know why.
I really wish I was making this up, but I saw it with my own two blue eyes.
Has anyone seen anything that tops this?
Because right now I'm still trying to process the world's first official game of Cart Path Hockey.
