SHERWOOD HITS A ROUGH PATCH.Byline: GENE WARNICK Staff Writer THOUSAND OAKS Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. -- When Sherwood Country Club decided to undergo a major renovation this spring, course superintendent Sean Dyer did almost everything to assure things would go smoothly. He just didn't check with Mother Nature. Shortly after reseeding 90 acres -- the tee boxes, fairways and rough -- the course was drenched drench tr.v. drenched, drench·ing, drench·es 1. To wet through and through; soak. 2. To administer a large oral dose of liquid medicine to (an animal). 3. with 3 1/2 inches of rain on Memorial Day weekend. Dyer said a study of weather patterns before the initial undertaking indicated no rain in late May over the previous decade. This summer brought a record heat wave, a four-day stretch in which temperatures exceeded 110 degrees. Not ideal conditions for growing a lawn in the front yard, much less bent grass and poa annua Poa annua, or annual meadow grass, is a widespread low-growing plant in temperate climates. It is a common weed of cultivation. It occurs as a common constituent of lawns, where it is also often treated as a weed. on a championship golf course that is hosting this week's Target World Challenge. ``We don't look to make excuses,'' said Dyer, 28, who has worked at Sherwood for the past two years and was promoted to superintendent in March. ``In this business, you have to rely on things that are out of your control.'' Although the course was closed from May to September for the renovation, there are some noticeable rough spots. ``It's in decent shape for all the crap they had to go through,'' said Jason Gore Jason William Gore (born May 17, 1974) is an American professional golfer. Gore was born in Van Nuys, California. He attended Pepperdine University. Gore plays on the PGA Tour after moving from the Nationwide Tour midseason in 2005. (Hart High of Newhall), who participated in Tuesday's pro-am despite not being in the 16-player field for the tournament. Dyer said it's important to remember the course is at the ``tail end of a renovation.'' ``With high-level golf comes high expectations,'' said Dyer, who studied turf grass science and plant pathology plant pathology: see diseases of plants. Plant pathology The study of disease in plants; it is an integration of many biological disciplines and bridges the basic and applied sciences. at Ohio State University Ohio State University, main campus at Columbus; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1870, opened 1873 as Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College, renamed 1878. There are also campuses at Lima, Mansfield, Marion, and Newark. . ``Any golf superintendent you ask will say their course is not at 100percent. You always can be better.'' gene.warnick@dailynews.com (818) 713-3632 CAPTION(S): photo, box Photo: Golfers walk past a brown patch brown patch n. A disease of turf grasses caused by a fungus of the genus Rhizoctonia and resulting in circular patches of dead leaves. on the fourth fairway Tuesday at Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks. Michael Owen Baker/Staff Photographer Box: Etc. |
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