Turfgrass Management Exam Questions with Correct Answers
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Environmental turf grass management
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Environmental Turf Grass Management
Responsible environmental management practice requires that a decrease in the amount of native acreage on a course be matched by a proportional decrease of managed turfgrass. (t/f) - Answer-true
More than 30% of all golf courses in the U.S. are using water from municipal water systems. (t/f) - A...
Turfgrass Management Exam Questions
with Correct Answers
Responsible environmental management practice requires that a decrease in the
amount of native acreage on a course be matched by a proportional decrease of
managed turfgrass. (t/f) - Answer-true
More than 30% of all golf courses in the U.S. are using water from municipal water
systems. (t/f) - Answer-false- only 8% of all water usage on golf courses comes from
municipal water systems
What is the proper role for the golf professional during a golf course renovation? -
Answer-inform, educate, and listen
Along with environmental conditions, the political realities must also be investigated in
the initial design approach. (t/f) - Answer-true
Which design approach would most likely recommend converting certain places on the
golf course from high maintenance areas to low maintenance areas? - Answer-
Designing for sustainability
What have the golf course superintendents been doing recently to improve
environmental management practices? - Answer-practicing sustainability
What do sustainable environmental management practices include? - Answer-
conserving water. cuts down on waste, increasing natural habitat, natural courses
What is the most influential factor in the effort by the golf industry to put sustainable
design concept into effect? - Answer-the benefits of the golf courses
The sustainability movement in golf is directed at reconciling the inherent conflict
between economic viability and environmental stewardship. (t/f) - Answer-true
There is an inherent conflict between economic viability and environmental stewardship.
(t/f) - Answer-true
Golf courses can be designed or renovated to include wildlife habitat and land preserve
at no long-term economic cost to the facility. (t/f) - Answer-true
Why do architects prefer to use the natural slope of the land for surface drainage? -
Answer-avoid spending excessive time and money altering natural landscape
Which golf course design feature will save the facility the most time and money in the
long run? - Answer-design for function (environmentally friendly)
, What golf-industry assumption about what it takes to operate a successful course must
change for USGA president Jim Hyler's concept of "brown becoming the new green" to
become reality? - Answer-misguided perception that golf course needs to be lush,
green, and perfect to be good
According to the USGA, what does "browning becoming the new green" imply? -
Answer-playability should replace aesthetics as the primary condition
According to the golf course design and construction process, the time needed for trees,
shrubs, and the greens to mature governs the length of time the maintenance phase will
last. (t/f) - Answer-false
As described in the course design and construction process, the end of the design
phase occurs when the course architect finishes a full set of construction drawings. (t/f)
- Answer-true- then followed by development, grow-in, and maintenance phase
According to the turfgrass management manual, the course architect will usually
manage the daily progress throughout the development phase of the design and
construction process. (t/f) - Answer-true
An "extended team" is made up of specialists who are periodically involved throughout
the course design and development process. (t/f) - Answer-true
Trees that were planted as a safety divider are now high enough that player's balls can
no longer clear the top branches represent having achieved function success. (t/f) -
Answer-true
Changing the characteristics of the soil is the most practical means of addressing
surface drainage problems. (t/f) - Answer-false-subsurface
Moving a hole placement to an area that does not hold an approach is a good way to
make strategic hole more challenging to an expert player. (t/f) - Answer-true
As presented in the turfgrass management manual, by definition a "strategic" hole
includes a hazard. - Answer-false-not always
As presented in the turfgrass management manual, a "strategic" hole is one that players
accept as difficult because it is part of a challenging course. (t/f) - Answer-false-
strategic hole offers more than one way to play, it is the most interesting to the largest
variety of playing abilities
A "heroic" hole leaves little room for error without incurring a penalty. (t/f) - Answer-
false- "penal" hole leaves little room for error
Adding a hazard provides a visual reference point to gauge distance. (t/f) - Answer-true
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