Bucket holes?

[snell]

Evening all

Seen a lot of comments over the winter regarding winter greens having bigger holes than normal ones.

Is this normal practice?

The winter greens at our place have normal sized holes as have most courses I've played in the area when operating winter greens

 

[Craigg]

Some places will just mow a piece of fairway and call it a temp. Worm casts and all. A bucket hole kind of redresses the balance. You can give it a fair old whack from a distance and it will still drop. Farcical really and only for social/fun golf.

 

[patricks148]

We call them frost holes. Like some one else said just a circle cut on the fairway with a big hole and a flag.

 

[snell]

Sorry I haven't been totally clear in my Op

I know what a winter green is....I am referring more to the actual hole itself.

I see a lot of people on here saying that there winter greens use bucket holes....where ours are just normal sized holes on the winter green.

 

[Craigg]

Sorry I haven't been totally clear in my Op

I know what a winter green is....I am referring more to the actual hole itself.

I see a lot of people on here saying that there winter greens use bucket holes....where ours are just normal sized holes on the winter green.

I think it all boils down to the quality of the temp as to whether they use standard or buckets. (they're not really buckets, just large holes)..............Oh no, what have I said. Hope Delc's asleep.

 

[snell]

I think it all boils down to the quality of the temp as to whether they use standard or buckets. (they're not really buckets, just large holes)..............Oh no, what have I said. Hope Delc's asleep.

Our winter greens are absolute pony but we have the normal sized holes.

Haha I haven't seen much of delc recently to be fair....maybes his course have finally sorted out there crowned holes

 

[HomerJSimpson]

We have temp greens mown into the fairway with these larger holes, probably about four times the size of a conventional hole

 

[Coffey]

We have them on our winter greens if cut on a fairway. If its a decent winter green then we have normal size

 

[ScienceBoy]

My first course, all the winter greens were off to the side and GUR until in play.

They were immaculate and had normal sized holes. Made winter golf feel just like summer.

My last course just mowed bits of fairway and had big wide shallow holes. You could miss from 4 feet as the ball might jump a foot left or right if hit firm. I even had one just jump up and stop short from 6 foot as I tried to die it in after having one jump wide on a previous hole.

 

[VVega]

Never seen anything other than a normal size hole. Temps or not.

 

[HDID Kenny]

We used to have Bucket winter holes, last year they reverted back to standard size. thankfully since drainage work on greens was completed 2 years ago we are only on them for frost/ice as it should be.

 

[freddielong]

We use normal sized holes no matter where the greens are, I haven't ever played a golf course that uses bucket holes in the winter.

 

[didsbury_duffer]

Bucket holes should be banned - absolute joke. What next, Mulligans, 16 clubs in the bag, lift clean and place 6 feet to avoid a tree, grass bunkers only on the course !!
Let's not dumb the game down even more than England Golf tried to do this year with ridiculous handicap proposals. 💣💣

 

[Deleted member 15344]

Bucket holes should be banned - absolute joke. What next, Mulligans, 16 clubs in the bag, lift clean and place 6 feet to avoid a tree, grass bunkers only on the course !!
Let's not dumb the game down even more than England Golf tried to do this year with ridiculous handicap proposals. 💣💣

They are only used during winter conditions when a club uses temporary greens ( mainly fairway cut short ) and you can't have normal size cups on those type of greens. Anything played on those greens and cups is not valid for the HC anyway - it's just so that people can carry on playing during winter. Banning them is a bit ridiculous

What HC proposals are you talking about ?

 

[upsidedown]

They are only used during winter conditions when a club uses temporary greens ( mainly fairway cut short ) and you can't have normal size cups on those type of greens. Anything played on those greens and cups is not valid for the HC anyway - it's just so that people can carry on playing during winter. Banning them is a bit ridiculous

What HC proposals are you talking about ?

We do :thup: Today's County premier Winter comp semi final was played out using them

 

[snell]

They are only used during winter conditions when a club uses temporary greens ( mainly fairway cut short ) and you can't have normal size cups on those type of greens. Anything played on those greens and cups is not valid for the HC anyway - it's just so that people can carry on playing during winter. Banning them is a bit ridiculous

What HC proposals are you talking about ?

Our course uses winter greens cut into the fairway with normal sized cups. We don't hold any qualifiers during the winter period mind, so that may be why?

 

[Deleted member 15344]

Our course uses winter greens cut into the fairway with normal sized cups. We don't hold any qualifiers during the winter period mind, so that may be why?

We used to have a mixture - normal size holes when the apron was used as a temp and then bucket holes when using the fairway. But we haven't used temps for two winters now as the new Head GK has a different way of thinking and we only go to temps in snow and if there is 5/7 days of consistent hard frost

 

[didsbury_duffer]

What do you mean when you say "you can't have normal size cups on those type of greens?". The vast majority of clubs seem to manage with normal size holes.

 

[Deleted member 15344]

What do you mean when you say "you can't have normal size cups on those type of greens?". The vast majority of clubs seem to manage with normal size holes.

When it comes to having a temp in the middle of a fairway which clearly hasn't been cut during the winter having a normal size cut makes it a bit of a lottery due to the lack of consistent roll on the ball hence why clubs with those sort of temps will put a bucket hole in because at the end of the day it's doesn't really matter as it's just for a couple of weeks over winter

What were these "ridiculous HC proposals " ?

 

[didsbury_duffer]

The handicap proposals, which thankfully were rejected by a majority of clubs, were to increase mens competition h/c to a max of 36, and ladies to 54.