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One of this chalk pens or strings you can use on the putting green? This sort of thing (first random google) https://egngolf.co.uk/products/putting-chalk-pens

Our club bought them for all members and we had a fiver taken off our accounts as our contribution. First year we’ve had to use them this winter.

Funnily enough we just had a long email from our Course Manager, with lots of pictures, saying the same thing. Right now the weather hasn’t been warm enough to recover properly from winter/maintenance week. I wouldn’t say it’s shabby at all though, but some tee boxes were roped off over winter...

If you want to go down the rabbit hole, the player that used to do it was Jeff Knox. Holds the course record off the members tees of a 61 he’d beat his playing partners and Sergio refused to shake his hand after their round as he lost to him. It’s a different guy now.

What I like about it is the familiarity of knowing it much more than courses rotate. I also like that no one is really out of it and if you’re hitting it well you can shoot a score. When the course is set up at a good length it opens up eagle through to double bogey in a lot of places. There’s...

Surely it’s in case you’re both playing the same ball and you don’t play the wrong ball by mistake.

Not sure why it’s not something simple like ‘first to putt gets 1 min, everyone after gets 30 secs’. Or similar.

Your brain is really clever at figuring out how to adjust things in your swing to achieve your goal. Lots of slicers usually start aiming further and further left to allow for the slice but the brain will tell your hands that the only way to get the ball to go straight is to open the face…which...