The benefit of spiking the greens is to allow water and nutrients to enter the root system and to allow oxygen exchange to promote healthy turf grass. With the zoysia being so tight knit in the upper layer, it opens the surface and it reaps the benefits. Once the greens have been spiked, a roller smooths the putting surface and you barely know we have even been on the greens! Pruning the rhizomes and stolons allows new shoots to form and thus a healthier putting surface. We will do this each Monday throughout the growing season--some times 2 directions, other times only 1 direction. Check out the process in our photos.
Once we finished, we put out our monthly application of wetting agents and a fungicide to mainly prevent zoysia patch, but it controls a broad spectrum of possible diseases. Notice the picture of #3 green the same day--can't tell we even did a thing to them, even ball roll wasn't affected.
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