Drive® DF herbicide Success Snapshot

 

Marvel Golf Club – Benton, Ky.

 

Nestled along the western shores of Kentucky Lake, Marvel Golf Club is Western Kentucky’s premier 18-hole championship golf course. Designed by Palmer Course Design and opened in 2005, Marvel sits upon some of the most pristine landscape found anywhere in the bluegrass state.

 

Christopher S. Gray, Sr. serves as both G.M. and director of golf course operations. As the National Public Course and Overall Winner in the 2007 GCSAA/Golf Digest Environmental Leaders in Golf Awards, Gray and his crew have successfully integrated quality turf conditions and environmental responsibility at Marvel.

 

Establishing and maintaining these naturalized areas are one of Gray’s greatest challenges.

 

“We have an enormous problem with soft crabgrass throughout the golf course,” said Gray. “In our naturalized areas we aren’t able to use a preemergence herbicide because it inhibits the germination of the native seed bed we want to promote.”

 

To control the soft crabgrass in these environmentally sensitive areas after it has germinated, Gray uses Drive^® DF herbicide.

 

“Drive gives me the ability to effectively spray out the soft crab without negatively affecting our native broomsedge bluestem, which is the cornerstone of all our naturalized areas,” said Gray.  “Protecting and enhancing the environment has always been a top priority in my career and Drive helps me accomplish that.”