Winter Preparation Golf Club de Sierre Switzerland

Jean-Bernard Mittaz

Golf Course Superintendent
Golf Club de Sierre
Valais, Switzerland
www.golfsierre.ch

Our golf course is down at the bottom of the Rhône Valley at the altitude
of 546 m. in Valais, Switzerland

Our greens preparation for the winter starts at the end of September. We do a scarification of the greens with a Graden machine at the maximum depth to remove the thatch. A good top-dressing with sand and peat will follow that work. We then raise our height of cut to 5 mm (0.19 in.).

Three weeks later, we do a hollow coring followed by top dressing and use some Potassium. We raise the height of cut to 6 mm (0.23 in.).

Late September: Start fungicide preventive applications

September/ October: Application of Heritage.

November: Application of Switch (Cyprodinil/fludioxonil)

Just before the snow, we apply Switch again.