Course layouts / obstacles

[nowtfancy]

What is the name for a 'mound' that runs across the fairway?(i'm sure there must be one & i'm sure i should know it!)
And how does one best play a shot from one that leaves the ball on 45 degree (?) slope upwards?!

Am I right in thinking a burn is like a trench/gulley type thing, or is that just in scotland?
Anyway this is the inverse of that... if that makes sense...

Played a nice new course (for me) yesterday that had a few of these, sent the ball into orbit when I had to play off one, about 80 yards from the green, 3rd shot on a par 5, result = lost ball!

 

[Robobum]

I think mound would just about cover it.

Set up with your shoulders aligned to the slope and not leaning into it. Try to swing with the slope and not dig into it.

Take extra club because the shot will go very high.

 

[Billysboots]

What is the name for a 'mound' that runs across the fairway?

Sounds like you're talking about ridge and furrow - one of my local courses is littered with them and I hate it!

 

[nowtfancy]

Ah that's more like it - now i can say to the father in law
'i think i'm on the upslope of that ridge & furrow - that'll be another ball lost'
rather than
'i'm on that lump, that'll help me get the ball up, watch this land & stick near the pin' !

 

[Ken_A]

hump? ridge?

 

[nowtfancy]

no i coped quite well i'm used to losing balls now

 

[grumpyjock]

ridge and furrow, uphill down dale its all part of the game.
would rather play an uphill lie than a downhill.

 

[nowtfancy]

yeah, I enjoyed it, I'd never come across these type of features before - such deliberate shaping of land over the fairway - summat else to think about!
Probably just lower ambition/expectations next time a lie like that presents itself!

 

[Basher]

Definitely mound if it's as broad as it is long. Ridge if it's wider than it is deep!

 

[RGDave]

I call them moguls. (from skiing and bike riding).

I'd like to see more of them, especially between the first cut and o.o.b.

Supposedly "American" style courses utilise big ones and long ridges between holes (rather than a tree line).....I quite like it. I'd rather be on a mogul than in yet another line of trees.....known at my club as a "stealth hedge"

 

[HomerJSimpson]

OK what about a small group of trees. The 4th at Wimbledon Common is called Spinney and is a short par 3 (about 170 off the whites) to a sunken green protected at the front by a mound. To the left in a little dip is a small patch of trees known as a spinney hence the name. So when does a spinney become a copse, or a wood etc?

 

[Canfordhacker]

So when does a spinney become a copse, or a wood etc?

And when does a thin become a top. Or a fade a slice.

Or a dream a reality...

 

[RGDave]

Are you talking about the bank/trees right and long on that hole?

 

[backwoodsman]

OK what about a small group of trees. The 4th at Wimbledon Common is called Spinney and is a short par 3 (about 170 off the whites) to a sunken green protected at the front by a mound. To the left in a little dip is a small patch of trees known as a spinney hence the name. So when does a spinney become a copse, or a wood etc?

A spinney is a small group of trees, but sufficiently open to allow you to see all the way through to the other side; a copse is a group of trees bigger and denser than a spinney but sited on top of a ridge or hill; a wood is yet more trees and is irrelevant to the land form.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

It is the group of trees in a little hollow to the left of the green that are the spinney. The bank itself is just a natural mound and even though it has a couple of trees on it isn't those that the hole is named after

 

[Golfmmad]

yeah, I enjoyed it, I'd never come across these type of features before - such deliberate shaping of land over the fairway - summat else to think about!
Probably just lower ambition/expectations next time a lie like that presents itself!

I think you'll find it's called, "bunding". There's plenty on my course. Being a flat course it's been used to separate
fairways. In fact they've just finished building one alongside he 14th fairway. Apparently to protect walkers on a public footpath.

Golfmmad.

 

[viscount17]

Ah that's more like it - now i can say to the father in law
'i think i'm on the upslope of that ridge & furrow - that'll be another ball lost'
rather than
'i'm on that lump, that'll help me get the ball up, watch this land & stick near the pin' !

no you can't - you could be <u>on</u> a ridge but <u>in</u> a furrow; comes from ploughing. ridges and furrows in that sense are narrow, straight and parallel, rarely just a single row of each.

the hollow could be a swale (man made to run off water) and the ridge, the berm created from the spoil.

 

[USER1999]

A barrow?

 

[Herbie]

Bank, barrow, furrow, ridge, mound....who cares? Stand correctly, take the right club and hit it well and it wont even matter if its shaped like Jordan sleeping