Orikoru
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That looks ridiculous @patricks148 - you're effectively teeing the ball up every time!
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This is what you need, I have one and they are brilliant. The little legs face forward so the mat never moves when struck by a club. You can get short or very short "grass" and as an added bonus the back spin on wedge shots is pure tour pro, which is great until spring comes around and we have to revert to real grass.
As for the debate about mats or not, I'm all for them. It's winter, the course is getting beaten to death so anything that brings us out the other side in a healthier position is more than welcome.
We used them last year for the first time and there were areas of the course that come spring were in so much better condition than in previous years it was obvious that it is a no brainer. The club has re-introduced them starting today, or you can play out of the rough.
not on the smooth side, but of the spike side you can put your ball on the edge for a wood and it is a bit like teeing it up, one guy i know uses his driverThat looks ridiculous @patricks148 - you're effectively teeing the ball up every time!
I'm not surprised!not on the smooth side, but of the spike side you can put your ball on the edge for a wood and it is a bit like teeing it up, one guy i know uses his driver
not on the smooth side, but of the spike side you can put your ball on the edge for a wood and it is a bit like teeing it up, one guy i know uses his driver
No you can hit of either the smooth side has 2 holes to sit the ball in so def not tee'd up, stops the ball rolling off if you dont have a flat lie on the fairway, you still have to play it as it lies in the rough thoughI'm not surprised!
The smooth side doesn't look like you're supposed to hit off it to be honest, it's just rubber isn't it? I suppose whatever works for you. I'd be using the tee-it-up side every time except for wedges I reckon.
No you can hit of either the smooth side has 2 holes to sit the ball in so def not tee'd up, stops the ball rolling off if you dont have a flat lie on the fairway, you still have to play it as it lies in the rough though
Same hereNo you can hit of either the smooth side has 2 holes to sit the ball in so def not tee'd up, stops the ball rolling off if you dont have a flat lie on the fairway, you still have to play it as it lies in the rough though
one of the guys in our group was using a 3 mat system last winterWe use the same mats, like you I use the smooth side for irons and if wanting to hit a very spinny chip use the spikey side.
Got to hit it properly off the smooth side as like you say it is not sitting up.
The short grass is tight links turf which is the one I have. Difficult to comment on the longer one as I haven't seen it but I understand that it is not really long, not semi rough, just long enough to help the ball stop rolling on a slope.On the website, they have long pile and short pile. I take it long pile = short grass and short pile = very short grass?
TBH Fair most places up here are not playing Q comps in the winter, so it doesn't really matter, but with WHS coming in a few have said they are running their winter leagues as Qual comps, it could be an issue, esp some guys manage to hit driver if the mat is set in a certain way.I've played off a mat in the desert, they should limit its use to the centre of one side of one mat only to be fair...
Not sure why that would be "fair". Serious. If everybody has a mat, and they can use them in the same manner.....isn't that fair? Everybody has the same playing conditions. They aren't the same playing conditions as during the summer.....but still the same playing conditions. Now....as has just been stated above....if they tighten up the rules on HOW you use the mat. But that I have seen, there are a number of different mats, each having a little bit different advantage/disadvantage. At times during the winter, people I'm playing with (and even at times the old roll-ups) we have just said "what the heck, use mats everywhere (not in bunker). I don't mind.....the conditions are the same for everybody.....and sometimes the mud off the fairways is just ridiculously horrible.I've played off a mat in the desert, they should limit its use to the centre of one side of one mat only to be fair...
We aren't on mats....I can hit driver off the fairway now. When I'm having a crap round, occasionally I give it a shot (usually fail, but occasionally ok). I get where you are coming from, but pretty well all mats allow you to take that shot with the driver better than off the grass. But, it's the same for everybody. I don't get why people are so stuck on playing golf in exactly the same way all through the winter. Does it matter if someone wants to hit driver off their mat? I can do it if I want to as well. That is fair.....the same for everybody. What isn't fair is if you are playing in conditions that are not that same for everybody...then somebody has an unfair advantage. I have suggested a few times in the old roll-ups to do something different.....how about playing off the reds today? (mouths hanging open in horror usually). Why don't we let everybody today move their ball up to 5 feet three times? (but...but....those aren't the rules!!). They ARE the rules if everybody agrees to them. We play a 3 clubs and a putter comp....that's not in the rules. Have some fun.....the conditions are going to be yucky for at least the next 4+ months...... Mats are not the doom of the universe.Because mats are used to protect the golf course, not to allow people to hit driver off the fairway.
If I was forced to play off mats at my course I'd do it any way that makes it more fun to be honest. If you can fluff it up enough to hit driver that's just a silver lining of a poor situation.I've played off a mat in the desert, they should limit its use to the centre of one side of one mat only to be fair...
Nah.....just keep pounding away. Golfers just don't like to do anything different (rather broad brushstroke there....).That's me told ??
Different grass species, more weather, less money.try playing off the grass they use in Asia, Spain .. it’s like a vine and it sits the ball up beautifully, every shot is easy as. Then in America never played off a bad fairway , easy as well .. come to the U.K. and our fairways are at club level just not good enough.