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When is the best time to water greens?

Nice contrast I was always taught that the best time to water greens was right before the greens mowers went out. The theory was that this would reduce the time that the plant was wet and would therefore result in less disease. So from my start in the turf industry this is what I did. I am very focused on reducing my reliance on pesticides to control disease so whatever I can do to accomplish this goal, I try. I was inspired by a post by Dr. Micah Woods a few years ago questioning the deep and infrequent irrigation regime vs the light and frequent. He made a great case that light and frequent isn't necessarily an inferior way to water. The great thing about this way of thinking is that it left me knowing that my way of irrigating wasn't inferior. It also got me questioning a lot of things about irrigation that weren't necessarily true. This year while I was setting up our irrigation system I started to think about the timing of when I watered greens. I was thinking about t