Need advice: our disc golf course is COVERED in ticks and chiggers.
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Looking for some advice from other course owners, clubs, or players.
Our local course has gotten absolutely terrible with ticks and chiggers lately. You can barely walk through some of the rough without picking them up, and it's becoming a real problem for people playing and maintaining the course.
For those of you who have dealt with this:
What actually worked for your course?
Did you treat the rough/grass with anything?
Have you used a professional pest control service?
Are there certain types of mowing or vegetation management that helped?
Anything we should absolutely avoid doing?
Is there a long-term solution, or is this just something we have to deal with seasonally?
We're trying to figure out the best way to make the course safer for players without unnecessarily harming the course or surrounding environment.
Any advice from clubs that have dealt with this would be greatly appreciated.