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Question

During a visit to a golf course in Arizona, you notice how poor the irrigation coverage is on the fairways. Much of the fairway turf is brown, while green grass is largely restricted to a series of donut-shapes rings along the centerline of each fairway. First, identify and explain the cause of this problem; be sure to include in your answer an explanation of the relationship between operating pressure and patterns of distribution from sprinkler heads. Then, recommend appropriate solutions to this problem. And, finally, what advice might you offer to a superintendent from a neighboring course who complains that, despite having a new, multiple-row, automatic irrigation system, the infiltration capacity of his heavily trafficked, compacted fairways is only half of the precipitation rate of the irrigation system and, as a consequence, intensive irrigation invariably results in sopping wet turf and standing water in low areas.