Anyone play in the freezing conditions?

[Billysboots]

....and watch your ball react like a ping pong ball at the funfair when you're trying to get them into those jam jars. Not a lot of fun

It all depends on whether you take the scoring in such conditions seriously, surely! What better way to improve distance control with your irons than work out a yardage to the front of the green and then get it as close to the front as possible? You know if you land it just short the longer grass is likely to kill the bounce a little, but if you are a yard too long your ball will leap sixty feet in the air and out the back!

It concentrates the mind.

 

[Bikky73]

such slow play in front (3-ball, slooow single, 2 ball, 2-ball, 3 ball, me - 12 people playing/waiting on 1 1/2 holes) ................noone was being let through - big surprise there.....

How annoying. I'm quite slow at the moment, just getting to grips with things, and the mrs.... her getting to grips with golf that is :lol:.. But I always let people through... unless i'm actually being held up by those in front.... to which I then can't help it.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

It all depends on whether you take the scoring in such conditions seriously, surely! What better way to improve distance control with your irons than work out a yardage to the front of the green and then get it as close to the front as possible? You know if you land it just short the longer grass is likely to kill the bounce a little, but if you are a yard too long your ball will leap sixty feet in the air and out the back!

It concentrates the mind.

Sorry but I've got to disagree. I hit a shot into a temp green on Saturday. It was only a PW and I landed it ten yards short off the temp, it bounced over the flag, landed on the front of the proper green and bounced like concrete again to the back. Now the back of the proper green is about 145 yards and I don't hit a wedge that far so how can I control it. I couldn't play a pitch and run shot as the temp is cut at the end of a strip of thick rough which would have grabbed and killed the shot

It wasn't just that hole. Sometimes you'd purposely play a low pitch and run and it would kick off at 45 degree angles, take a hard or soft bounce or the frost would form on the ball and slow it. You couldn't stop anything even with height coming in from ore than 120 yards. It made any form of shot selection and distance control a mockery. That doesn't concentrate the mind. In fact it tends to make me lose even more interest. You can'ty play "proper"shots. As far as I go, the only thing winter golf is good for is seeing if you are driving it ok.

 

[Billysboots]

I must be in the minority then!

I think sometimes we either have to accept that we are very rarely going to get perfect conditions (this is the UK, after all), and make the best of what we do have, or we just don't bother playing.

Today is an example. Whilst the top couple of centimetres of our greens have thawed they are still solid beneath. They really are still a bit of a lottery. I accepted them for what they were, tried to play to the conditions and came in with 37 points.

 

[In_The_Rough]

Can't see the point playing on frozen ground hitting in to temps to be honest. Would much rather go to the range and work on the swing for a couple of hours. But the course was fairly busy again at the weekend even with the sub zero temperatures, each too their own I guess. What suits one

 

[Bikky73]

Courses won't be frozen this weekend

 

[In_The_Rough]

Flooded more likely with the amount of rain that has come down today

 

[Monty_Brown]

Yes the bounces are uneven, but if you land the ball where you were aiming, you can take the satisfaction from a shot well hit, surely? Then practice a chip and run for the next from 30 yards through the green.

I played really well on a frozen course on Saturday because me and the guy I played with made a pact on the first tee not to moan about bounces... we came 2nd and 3rd out of 50 in the stableford. Good attitude goes a long way in keeping you calm and focused.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I played really well on a frozen course on Saturday because me and the guy I played with made a pact on the first tee not to moan about bounces... we came 2nd and 3rd out of 50 in the stableford. Good attitude goes a long way in keeping you calm and focused.

Hawkeye and I were due to play a match but we agreed with the oppos to postpone it until this week as no-one wnated the lottery of a frozen course and temps to decide the outcome. We all played anyway and had a match but to be honest it was still impossible to get overly excited about the state of play or the outcome. Impossible to play proper golf and I don't agree about getting satisfaction from hitting the landing spot. For me the satisfaction comes from controlling the shot by the trajectory and loft and its never going to happen in freezing conditions. I guess we'll disagree on this but given a choice, a couple of baskets of balls on a range serves me better than trying to hit shots with no degree of control or even thought.

 

[Deleted member 1740]

I really don't see the point in playing on a frozen course, would much prefer to give it a miss.

Not played for nearly 2weeks now, playing rhos on sea this weekend.

 

[Bikky73]

Hopefully this weekend :clap: Snow fell last night but it should be clear by Sunday. :thup: