TifSport and TifEagle Share the Glory (March, 2006)

TifEagle and TifSport are again reaping turfgrass kudos with Golfdom’s choice of the #9 hole at Fazio Foothills at Barton Creek Resort and Spa in Austin TX as its March Hole of the Month.  The new standard bermudagrass pairing for upscale warm weather courses is a perfect match-up for the spectacular Fazio Foothills, the most prestigious of the four courses at Barton Creek and an Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary.

Great venues like the award-laden Foothills never rest on their laurels; they maintain quality by constantly improving with the times.

TifSport and TifEagle are the most recent Bermuda releases of the University of Georgia’s turfgrass team. In introducing these improved cultivars during the 1990s, their breeder, Dr. Wayne Hanna, continued a tradition of excellence coming out of the Coastal Plain Experiment Station at Tifton GA.  This is the same meticulous program that was responsible for the earlier twosome of golf course favorites, Tifway (419) and Tifdwarf. As the superiority of the new cultivars became evident to golfers and superintendents alike, Barton Creek moved to replace greens with TifEagle, in 2001, and most recently its fairways and teeboxes with TifSport, in 2004.

Both TifSport and TifEagle are patented and certified, with maintenance of genetic purity the primary goal of stringent growth and inspection protocols required of the licensed producers, who are the sole source for these grasses.