If you read golf online, you’ve seen this mentioned before. I’m posting it for our viewers along the Niagara Frontier, for the benefit of all course owners, country club superintendents and anyone else tired of client requests for a 100% green golf course, all the time. If you read just one sentence, let it be this one: a green golf course takes way too much water and fertilizer and is not healthy nor environmentally sensitive.

Yup, that was quite a sentence, but we all need to read it and repeat it. If you, Mrs./Miss/Mr. Country Club member, were to ask your groundskeeping staff it what I write is true, they would eventually tell you “yes.” For you public-play golfers, the super at your local muni would say the same thing. The fact of the matter is, green looks beautiful for one week a year at Augusta, when the field is restricted; the staff on hand, infinitesimal; and the coffers, without bottom. For every other course in every other state, a healthy touch of brown would be pretty healthy for all parties involved.

Brown means we’re not wasting water. Brown means we’re not adding fertilizer. Brown means we’re letting the grasses (native and transferred) grown naturally. Costs are kept down, ground water remains purer and stores of recycled water remain higher.

I’m fairly certain that any area super (Paging Eric Tuchols!) who reads this might have more to say on the subject. Remember that the ball sits up on brown, just as it does on green. It also rolls across brown just the same. Join the legions of course managers, operators and superintendents who need your support. Place a call for brown today.