Tifway was selected and tested cooperatively by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Georgia Coastal Plain Experiment Station, and the U.S. and Southern Golf Associations.

It is a hybrid between Cynodon transvaalensis and C. dactylon Tifway bermudagrass is a highly disease-resistant selection with a very dark green color. As a consequence, it maintains a desirable green color longer and with less nitrogen than most other selections.

Its fine leaves, stiffer than Tifgreen, make it inferior to Tifgreen for putting greens, but superior for tees and fairways. Tifway starts growth earlier in the spring than most bermudagrass.

It is also more frost resistant and will, therefore, remain green later into the fall. Tifway is more tolerant of golf cart traffic than common or Tifgreen, but is less tolerant than Tiflawn. It is more resistant than Tifgreen to sod webworm and mole cricket attacks.

Tifway makes a very dense sod and is more weed resistant than most bermudagrasses.

Tifway has short seed stalks that bear heads with light reddish anthers which shed no pollen. Since Tifway never produces seed, it must be propagated by planting sprigs or laying sod