Environmental Turf, worldwide marketer of environmentally friendly turfgrasses, recently announced that internationally known PGA Tour Instructor and Trick Shot Artist Mike Calbot, aka “The Golf Doctor,” has endorsed SeaDwarf™ Seashore Paspalum turfgrass for use on golf courses from tee-to-green.
Calbot said he chose to endorse SeaDwarf™ for two reasons: the golfer-friendly playability of the grass as well as its environmentally friendly properties.
“For the average golfer, the firmness of the grass will promote better ball/clubface contact thus, more fun and better shots,” Calbot said. “On the fairways, the ball sits up on top of the grass and it’s easier for contact with mid and longer irons and fairway woods.”
Calbot characterized golf course greens grassed with SeaDwarf™ as “very true and a lot less grain” than the bermudgrass greens many of his students are used to playing.
“I think golfers will notice the improved difference in their game,” Calbot said.
After a recent round of golf on a course grassed with SeaDwarf™, Calbot said, “I felt like it was prepped for a tour event.”
Calbot, who travels all over the world performing in trick-shot shows and teaching golfers the finer points of the game, said the environmentally friendly aspects of SeaDwarf™ are also of great importance to him.
SeaDwarf™ can be irrigated with nearly any quality water, from potable to effluent, brackish, even seawater with proper management. The grass takes up to 75-percent less nitrogen for fertilization and up to half the amount of water for irrigation than bermudgrass. Plus, ordinary table salt can be used as an herbicide. Courses grassed with SeaDwarf™ often save money on water use as well as chemical applications.
“The golf courses that I visit around the world are always looking to cut budgets and are concerned about the environment. In Florida, it’s already a huge grass. I can also see a great need for it in the islands, the Bahamas, the Mediterranean. I just came back from China where water is a huge problem,” Calbot said. “This grass, as I see it, has no downside.”
The Mike Calbot International Golf Studio offers clinics, seminars, lectures, schools and golf travel trips through the studio at Miromar Lakes Beach & Golf Club in Estero, Florida, as well as at schools in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, which are arranged during the summer months.
Calbot’s more than 35 years of teaching experience as a swing analyst, instructor and world renowned professional golf trick shot artist has made him one of the most sought-after professionals in golf today. Calbot frequently works with PGA, LPGA, Senior and European tour players. He has personally trained more than 25 men and women who are now class "A” members of the PGA and LPGA.
For more information visit: www.webgolfdoctor.com.
Environmental Turf is a firm dedicated to the research, development, marketing and distribution of environmentally friendly warm-season turfgrasses.
SeaDwarf is available through Environmental Turf’s network of licensed sod producers. For more information or to find a licensed grower near you call: 772-460-5575 or visit www.environmentalturf.com
