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If this is for other people, then a golf pro of a local pro shop will be one of the best people to ask for an opinion.
Most golfers I know practice for a "feel." So speed of recovery may or may not be as important as the "feel."
It will make a difference whether the hit directly off the turf, or whether they use a "T".
I've understood that there may be some improved varieties of Annual Bluegrass in the works.
Several courses I worked at in Oregon had greens taken over by that grass - Poa Annua.
The plain blown-in-from-the-field type does not like heat, and has an issue about seed-heads.
But most of the season, that grass provides a putting surface that is superior to all others.
Bentgrass can lay different directions, even with some vertical cutting. A lot of vertical cutting can keep Bentgrass tidy.
But Bentgrass unrolls out of the sheath providing a flat blade with no midrib. Annual Bluegrass unfolds out of the sheath providing a folded leaf blade with a midrib.
The latter provides a better surfact to support a ball.
Take a sheet of paper and stand it on end - it collapses.
Now take a sheet of paper and crease a fold - it stands on end. That's one of the reasons Annual Bluegrass is superior. But I've been off the golf courses long enough that I'm unaware of the research in that area for Poa Annua.
Our tees were almost always Perennial Ryegrass, like the fairways and collars.
Putting surfaces are almost pure sand with a little organic matter - at least on the last ones we did at Columbia Edgewater CC in Portland, Oregon.
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