Tif3D

Tif3D was selected from Taylor’s Creek Golf Course at Fort Stewart in Georgia, home of the U.S. Army’s 3rd Infantry Division and has been compared to Tifgreen, Tifdwarf, Champion, MiniVerde, and TifEagle on the University of Georgia Tifton Campus since 2012.  It is generally darker green and more uniform than these cultivars during, or immediately following, many environmental (drought, foliar disease, and temperature fluctuations during the spring and fall) or mechanical (mower scalping, verticutting, and hollow-core aeration) stresses.  Tif3D was highly adapted to the lower-intensity management conditions of the Save research trials in Tifton.  Therefore, we further tested it at on-site golf course research putting green trials beginning in 2015, largely against TifEagle and Mach 1.  Over years and locations, Tif3D consistently outperformed these cultivars with its dense surface, eventually leading to its release at the request of several golf course superintendents.