Fusarium - how responsible are you?

[Oddsocks]

If you visit a course that has this, what precautions do you take to ensure you dont spread it further to other courses. We have it at ours at the moment and Sunday I'm playing at a prospective club, and I thought the right thing to do is wash and scrub my shoes to ensure I don't spread it further to other courses.

Do any others do the same?

 

[BTatHome]

We have it on 15 greens, but we have 3 new greens that are not affected at all. Hence I'm not really sure how easiy it spreads from footfall.

Certainly my understanding was that ours was mostly caused from the snow fall we had early last year.....it can also lay dormant for long periods without seeing it.

Personally a quick scrub of your sole will probably be better than 99% of people would do

 

[HawkeyeMS]

If I'm honest I didn't know what Fusarium was until I just googled it. If it is easily transferred and any course I played had it I would expect someone or something telling I should make sure my shoes are cleaned. You can't expect golfers to be turf experts.

 

[IanLeeds]

we have it on our greens at present hoping they clear up soon enough

 

[Oddsocks]

I'd like to see all courses have a spray on the first tee and last green to spray shoes pre and post round ... Shoes are scrubbed, soles washed in detol,

 

[HomerJSimpson]

If I'm honest I didn't know what Fusarium was until I just googled it. If it is easily transferred and any course I played had it I would expect someone or something telling I should make sure my shoes are cleaned. You can't expect golfers to be turf experts.

Mind you its too late for our greens unless we get a greenkeeper in who actually knows what he's doing. Looks like we've totally lost four or five of them again and the others aren't far behind. I can't see how you can manage to eradicate it from going course to course unless you insist everyone cleans every spec of dirt of shoes, bags, trollies etc. Never going to happen and to be honest Oddsocks I wouldn't bother.

 

[BTatHome]

It's gonna get even harder in the future if the EU force thru more regulations on use of chemical feeds.

We are going through a regime of hollow core and scarifying to get rid, just needs time, and unfortunately you see it at its worst when the growing is close to nil. It'll look much better in April when the ground temp is higher and the grass has a chance of growing.

 

[Oddsocks]

Did hear something about the banning of chemicals that prevent it.... Damit

 

[SocketRocket]

I did play at a club that had it and while dealing with the problem they had a shoe bath that you had to stand in prior to playing and on return.

 

[Imurg]

Slightly different tack but I remember playing at Forest of Arden during one of the Foot and Mouth outbreaks.
We had to walk through a shallow tank of disinfectant on the way to the first tee, coming off the 9th, going to the 10th and coming off 18.
Made for a slightly smelly trip home.....

 

[Oddsocks]

I did play at a club that had it and while dealing with the problem they had a shoe bath that you had to stand in prior to playing and on return.

exactly my point, not a massive outlay for a course thats trying to protect its greens.. forward thinking.:thup:

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I did play at a club that had it and while dealing with the problem they had a shoe bath that you had to stand in prior to playing and on return.

exactly my point, not a massive outlay for a course thats trying to protect its greens.. forward thinking.:thup:

I can see that but what about the spores on stand bag bases, trolley wheels and even club heads. Wouldn't they all run the risk of spreading it anyway.

 

[SocketRocket]

I can see that but what about the spores on stand bag bases, trolley wheels and even club heads. Wouldn't they all run the risk of spreading it anyway.

Dont normally take my trolly across the greens

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I can see that but what about the spores on stand bag bases, trolley wheels and even club heads. Wouldn't they all run the risk of spreading it anyway.

Dont normally take my trolly across the greens

No-one was suggesting you do but I can't see those mischievous fusarium spores behaving themselves and loitering politely on the putting surface alone

 

[thecraw]

Its a pointless exercise, you'd need to have a disinfection bath before you go onto every green and then again when you come off it.

What would be the point of dipping your shoes pre round, walk on 18 greens where you'll spread it and disinfect again at the end? Pointless excercise.

Just let the greens staff deal with it. Yes its unsightly but its treatable and they will do it once the growth returns.

 

[Belly]

We've got a real problem with it at my club. I'm not convinced the Green stuff know how to deal with it. It all started when they decided not to spray the Greens a few years ago and it appears to be getting worse each year.

Can be quite handy for lining your putts up with though