Golf Course Curse?

What happened here?

 

Someone put herbicide in the irrigation water??

 

Likely a warm season grass used on the fairways. Perhaps Bermudagrass? With the atypical frost/freeze seen this past winter, the grass went dormant which one wouldn't normally see in SoCal (but common in the Southeast).

Simon

 

Or dormant Zoysia. It could also be scalped.

 

The old chap didn't hit the ball anything like far enough to reach the green

;-))

 

All excellent answers, however, this was a management decision. Michael is on the right track.

 

They meant to use a broadleaf weed killer, but used a grass killer by mistake.

 

Spread sand?

 

Too many people have hit too many bunkers too hard :-]

 

The management let the military carry out a nuclear weapons training exercise? :o)

Nice Pinus pinea at the right of the new photo

 

The lines in the second photo seem to indicate a ground application of something but I have no idea what.

 

Excellent observations and deductions.

Both the Buena Golf Course and the Olivas Golf Course were sprayed with glyphosate in preparation for renovation. The courses are bordered to the south by the Santa Clara River. Google Earth shows the Buena Golf Course after the applications. Both courses are on Olivas Park Drive in Ventura, California. The course on the other side of the river is the River Ridge Golf Course in Oxnard, California.

 

The spray contractor should look for another line of work. The skips and crossovers! Pathetic.

Ralph