Golf course superintendent Joe Valentine points out the spot just off the 17th Tee at the Merion Golf Club in Pennsylvania where Merion Kentucky bluegrass was first selected for breeding purposes

Golf course superintendent Joe Valentine points out the spot just off the 17th Tee at the Merion Golf Club in Pennsylvania where Merion Kentucky bluegrass was first selected for breeding purposes in 1936, seventeen years earlier.

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In Collections: Dr. James R. Watson, Jr. Image Archive

Copyright Status: In Copyright

Date Created: 1953-09-18

Photographers: Watson, James, 1920-2013

Subjects: Turf management
Turfgrasses
North America--United States--Pennsylvania--Ardmore
Valentine, Joseph
Merion Golf Club (Ardmore, Pennsylvania). 17th Tee

Turfgrass Thesaurus Terms: Golf greens
Breeding
Choice of cultivar
Poa pratensis
Merion

Material Type: Slides (photographs)

Language: No linguistic content

Extent: 1 slide : color ; 36 x 24 mm

Note: Photographer uncertain
Image taken on Kodachrome.

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