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Poa annua greens in the west: rapid blight makes the impossible more difficult.(THE GREEN SECTION)
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California Fairways
- Article date:
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November 1, 2005
- Author:
- Eckert, Fred
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Like most golf course superintendents, Mike Caranci, superintendent for Candlewood Country Club, Whittier, defies the laws of nature every day. That presents Caranci a number of challenges to overcome to keep his course looking great and in the best playing condition possible.
The work that Caranci and his 23-person crew do is almost invisible to the golfers who enjoy more than 40,000 rounds played on the 350 open days per year. The golfers don't know the well planned course maintenance program that Caranci has developed over the past 17 years and they barely notice his crew performing the careful mowing, irrigation, preventive weed and disease applications nor the dozens ...