Baked fairways

[Arthur Wedge]

My course has lots of elevated greens fronted by bunkers, fairways quite undulating too. It would be unplayable if it baked out. We have fairway irrigation so the whole course is green and lush, but I guess we’ll have to start reducing usage at some point if this dry weather continues.

Yeah we are now at the stage where it’s keeping things alive but soon will need to prioritise greens and approaches

 

[Backache]

Yeah we are now at the stage where it’s keeping things alive but soon will need to prioritise greens and approaches

It's chucking it down here. Everything green.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

It's chucking it down here. Everything green.

Scotland or N Ireland ?

Looks like the next two weeks we have one day of potential rain

 

[Backache]

Scotland or N Ireland ?

Looks like the next two weeks we have one day of potential rain

West of Scotland, dry spring, pretty wet since then.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

West of Scotland, dry spring, pretty wet since then.

Dry cold spring for us and now dry warm summer - really do need some rain

 

[Golfnut1957]

The thing that's killing me the most in these conditions is chipping/pitching. I use the CBX wedges, plenty of bounce which is normally my friend, but when you're chipping off a marble floor they're not helping at all. Even clipping the ground fractionally sees the club bouncing up into the equator of the ball. I played a really nice high chip with 60° yesterday, but my 60 is not a CBX, it's an RTX with only 9° bounce and it worked a lot better. Slightly annoying because I'm not going to buy different wedges just to swap them for the conditions, so I'll just have to learn to do better with them somehow.

I ground the bounce off my 56* a month or so back, and it is working brilliantly. I'll be in trouble come the winter though.