millions of Americans enjoy playing golf
but golf courses are not known to be
environmentally friendly they demand a
lot of fresh water fertilizers and
herbicides to keep them looking green
that’s true of most golf courses but
let’s look at one that is trying
something different this is the Miami
Beach Golf Club the grass used here is
called seashore Paspalum it’s the most
environmentally friendly grass in the
world dr. Ron Duncan is a turf
researcher at the University of Georgia
and the leading expert on seashore
Paspalum and environmentally friendly
from the standpoint that you can save
the potable water use for the human side
and utilize all other alternative water
sources like brackish water or water out
of sewage plants to irrigate this grass
also you have a reduced management
budget because it requires about half
the fertilizers that you normally used
on other grasses also you can save on
pesticide use what makes seashore
Paspalum so special is that it can
survive and thrive in high salt
environments so brackish water or
partially salty water can be used to
irrigate this grass this translates into
big savings for the golf course we
estimate at this point we’re going to
reduce our dependency on freshwater by
about 65 to 75 percent that’ll save us
somewhere in the range of 175 to 200
thousand dollars annually and on
freshwater Steve Forrest is the
architect who designed this golf course
he says seashore Paspalum has other
advantages besides being environmentally
friendly this grass are able to provide
a striping pattern kind of like you
would see on a football field or if you
were vacuuming your carpet this grass is
also green or darker green and texture
so you can again have different
contrasts in color throughout the golf
course which is desirable from an
architectural standpoint of view
so do golfers rate seashore Paspalum as
a birdie or a bogey I would definitely
come back and I was very impressed with
it we’ve came down to play three rounds
and we played it three different courses
and this is by far the best the end the
end use is here it’s not in my research
plots it’s not at the University of
Georgia it’s it’s where it’s gonna be
used and the acceptance of the golfers
now and and various people trying this
grass in a lot of different areas
that’s the pleasure that I’m getting
seashore Paspalum appears to be a green
solution that’s par for the course
but golf courses are not known to be
environmentally friendly they demand a
lot of fresh water fertilizers and
herbicides to keep them looking green
that’s true of most golf courses but
let’s look at one that is trying
something different this is the Miami
Beach Golf Club the grass used here is
called seashore Paspalum it’s the most
environmentally friendly grass in the
world dr. Ron Duncan is a turf
researcher at the University of Georgia
and the leading expert on seashore
Paspalum and environmentally friendly
from the standpoint that you can save
the potable water use for the human side
and utilize all other alternative water
sources like brackish water or water out
of sewage plants to irrigate this grass
also you have a reduced management
budget because it requires about half
the fertilizers that you normally used
on other grasses also you can save on
pesticide use what makes seashore
Paspalum so special is that it can
survive and thrive in high salt
environments so brackish water or
partially salty water can be used to
irrigate this grass this translates into
big savings for the golf course we
estimate at this point we’re going to
reduce our dependency on freshwater by
about 65 to 75 percent that’ll save us
somewhere in the range of 175 to 200
thousand dollars annually and on
freshwater Steve Forrest is the
architect who designed this golf course
he says seashore Paspalum has other
advantages besides being environmentally
friendly this grass are able to provide
a striping pattern kind of like you
would see on a football field or if you
were vacuuming your carpet this grass is
also green or darker green and texture
so you can again have different
contrasts in color throughout the golf
course which is desirable from an
architectural standpoint of view
so do golfers rate seashore Paspalum as
a birdie or a bogey I would definitely
come back and I was very impressed with
it we’ve came down to play three rounds
and we played it three different courses
and this is by far the best the end the
end use is here it’s not in my research
plots it’s not at the University of
Georgia it’s it’s where it’s gonna be
used and the acceptance of the golfers
now and and various people trying this
grass in a lot of different areas
that’s the pleasure that I’m getting
seashore Paspalum appears to be a green
solution that’s par for the course
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