WHAT LIES BENEATH:BATHYMETRY AND ITS IMPORTANCETO TURF MANAGERS

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Have you ever experienced a dry season where rain was not in the immediate forecast and you were not absolutely certain that your irrigation ponds held enough water to cover you? As a former assistant golf course superintendent, I remember times whenour irrigation lake was extremely low, and our greens could not go one more night without water. I knew that there was a good chance that I'd be hand watering them several times the next day, and each day without rain seemed to require more applied water than the one before. I knew I would soon be staring at mud in the irrigation lake where water once was.