www.stma.org October 2014 | SportsTurf 23
John Mascaro's Photo Quiz
John Mascaro is President of Turf-Tec International
John Mascaro's Photo Quiz Answers from page 19
If you would like to submit a photograph for John Mascaro's Photo Quiz please send it to John Mascaro, 1471 Capital Circle NW, Ste # 13, Tallahassee,
FL 32303 call (850) 580-4026 or email to john@turf-tec.com. If your photograph is selected, you will receive full credit. All photos submitted will
become property of SportsTurf magazine and the Sports Turf Managers Association.
This photo was taken June 1 and these
brown lines are bare spots are a result of
spring traffic. What you are looking at is
early morning tracks from where the college
football team crossed over the bermuda-
grass practice field during spring practice to
use the synthetic field located on the far side
of the photo. Very early each spring morning,
for an entire week, the coaching staff drove
their cart across the same area. You can also
see the team's footprints on the right and an
area where they ran some offensive drills off
to the left. The sports turf manager assumes
the drills took place because he was not yet
at work on the day that this took place. The
sports turf manager pondered for several
weeks why the bermudagrass was so worn
out and how it got so thin in such a short
period of time. Then he remembered during
that week they had early morning mild frosts
on the ground and the constant foot and
cart traffic combined with the frost eventu-
ally killed the turf. Over the next 60 days,
they performed five core aerifications and
weekly .25lb nitrogen fertilizations along
with bi-weekly applications of a growth
regulator. By the first week of August, 95%
of the damage was grown over. This is
a perfect example of the importance of
educating coaching staff and players about
the potential for frost damage during light
frost events..
Photo submitted by Jon Hall, sports
turf manager at Hampden Sydney College
in Virginia.
