Grass seed for golf courses

MM8 traditional grass mixture is especially useful for spring overseeding of high-quality golf greens to improve sward composition and aid recovery from disease scarring. For Links-style courses, sustainable golf or for early season overseeding, use MM8, or MM Coastal fescue mixtures, that provide excellent disease resistance, drought tolerance

All three cultivars offer unrivalled summer and winter greenness as well as the pre-requisite high shoot density and disease resistance. Includes AberRoyal and AberCharm UK-bred cultivars for UK conditions. Also available with Vesper Velvet bent grass as A11S Sustainable: uniform putting surface; dense sward; tolerates close mowing; UK-bred

Situated in Bradford-on-Avon, Cumberwell Park Golf Club is a family-owned and operated course that opened in 1994 with 18 holes. Since then, the sustainably minded golf course has been expanded several times and it now offers 54 holes alongside practice facilities. Germinal golf grass expert Alex Beesley visited Matthew James, course manager of

J All Bent overseeding mixture is suitable for golf greens: 50% Arrowtown [Browntop Bent] Exceptional shoot density and fineness of leaf to deliver maximum trueness and ball speed STRI Rating 7.1; 30% Manor [Browntop Bent] High tolerance to Fusarium and close-mown wear STRI Rating 6.9; 20% Cleek [Browntop Bent] A top performer in STRI close mown

J Green grass seed is suitable for golf and bowling greens. It is comprised of a traditional grass seed specification for greens; is highly tolerant of close mowing; gives a fine, dense turf; has excellent disease resistance; and a natural colour

Featuring 4Turf® tetraploid ryegrass, J Premier Tee is ideal for rapid establishment on high-wear areas, shaded golf tees and pathways - all with reduced input costs. This unique combination of cultivars delivers exceptional disease resistance, high shade tolerance and a hard-wearing sward, even under close mown conditions

A programme of Johnsons J Fairway has been praised by the team at Woodbridge Golf Club, after delivering tried and trusted performance for more than a decade. Such is the consistency and quality of results from the 100% fescue blend on the fairways, Course Manager Paul Lawrence is now employing another 100% fescue mix from the Johnsons Sports Seed

MM7 is a modern grass seed mixture for quick renovation of worn and damaged areas of fine turf on golf greens subject to extreme wear. Fast germination and establishment; high wear tolerance; fine leaved; fast coverage of damaged areas and emergency repair work; treated with Headstart® GOLD. Sowing rate - 35g/m2; oversowing rate - 10-25g/m2

MM9 is a three-way browntop bent mix for golf and bowling greens. Where it is difficult to maintain fescue in the sward, or where levels of wear are greater, MM9 should be used in late summer / early autumn for best results. Maintenance requirements will be higher as it produces an aggressive-growing, tight, dense sward for the ultimate surface

MM10 is an alternative to the traditional 80/20 mix for constructing, overseeding, renovating and repairing high-quality golf greens and tees. It is fine-leaved, disease-resistant and makes good, dense putting surfaces. Can be used from spring to autumn. Treated with Headstart® GOLD. Produces a fine, dense sward. Tolerant to close mowing

MM11 is a traditional fescue and browntop bent mixture for all golf and bowling greens and can be used from spring to autumn. It is ideal for new constructions and overseeding existing swards. This mixture is treated with Headstart® GOLD. 40% Caldris chewings fescue; 40% Nicky chewings fescue; 10% Cleek browntop bent; 10% Manor browntop bent

MM13 is a 100% fescue mixture for tees, fairways and roughs. High-quality traditional mixture for overseeding or renovating fine dense tees, fairways and roughs, particularly where maintenance and input levels are low. Excellent drought resistance; low maintenance requirements; good recovery characteristics; high disease resistance; ideal for

Based on a previous project in 2003, Johnsons Sports Seed mixtures have once again been used at Adlington Golf Centre in Cheshire as part of major construction works on a new 9-hole 3-par golf course, as well as for a 40-bay driving range and 9-hole pitch and putt at this 125-acre site

Grass seed mixtures from Johnsons Sports Seed are providing the flexibility and durability required to cope with the microclimate at the unique hilltop location of Maesteg Golf Club in Wales. Deputy Head Greenkeeper James Matthewman explains how the combination of J Fescue, J All Bent and J 4Turf from DLF are retaining better coverage and plant

J Sustain - Fairway grass seed mixture is suitable for sustainable fairway management. It improves the visual and playing quality of a golf course, whilst meeting environmental and sustainability requirements, saving time and money in the long-term. A blend of top-rated native fescue cultivars with an increased proportion of hard and sheeps fescue

Launched in the summer of 2023, the new hard fescue J Sustain-Fairway grass seed mixture from Johnsons Sports Seed is already making a strong first impression at the birthplace of The Open Championship. Delivering quick germination and coping with the challenges of the undulating links course, Prestwick Golf Club has commended the blend of

Horsham Golf Club is being extended from a short 9 hole course into an 18 hole golf course. Because of different soil conditions around the course, the grass seed mixture required careful consideration and guidance which was provided by John Hughes of DLF/Johnsons Sports Seeds. “There was a vast variation of soils on the site over woodland and

To make management of the greens at Broadstone Golf Club more sustainable, the Head Greenkeeper embarked on a sward conversion programme to improve the condition of the surface beyond summer, extending the length of the season

AberMajesty is a combination of AberRoyal, AberRegal and Musket and is suitable for greenkeepers looking to manage a blend of browntop bentgrasses that offers the prerequisite requirement of good shoot density and fineness of leaf, but with vital added resistance to fusarium. AberRoyal and AberRegal were bred at the only UK-based seed breeding

Innovative seed solutions from DLF have led to a remarkable improvement in Bristol Golf Club's playing surfaces and overall visitor experience, despite a year of challenging weather. The team, led by Course Manager Dave Taylor, introduced Johnsons J 4Turf 50 across all 27 tees in early 2025, which has gone on to demonstrate outstanding resilience

Designed specifically for use on soil- or sand-based golf greens, Forefront Greens is a blend of three bentgrass varieties, all of which have been selected to offer increased wear and heat tolerance, vigorous growth and good all-round disease resistance for hard-working, modern golf greens. Superb year-round green colour

Designed specifically for use along the border between fairway and rough areas, A32 Ecological Rough is made up of five different grass species, all of which have been selected to produce a thin, easy to manage grass sward with added ecological benefits. A32 Ecological Rough has been designed to help greenkeepers create fairway margins which

A13 provides rapid repair of divot scarring. Once fully established, the sward will withstand drought conditions on sandy soils. ESCAPADE provides slow re-growth without compromising shoot density, to produce a low maintenance fairway: sowing rate: 35g/m2 (350kgs/ha); overseeding rate: 20g/m2 (200kgs/ha); cutting height: down to 15mm; fertiliser

A12 provides rapid repair of divot scarring. Once fully established, the sward will withstand drought conditions on sandy soils. ESCAPADE provides slow re-growth without compromising shoot density, to produce a low maintenance fairway: quick establishment; good recovery from divots; low maintenance; clean cutting. 30.0% JOANNA Chewings Fescue