Frost and temporary greens

[Tashyboy]

Every club is filled with agronomy experts. I don't remember studying turf management at school - I must have been off that day because everyone else seems to know about it.

Think yourself lucky, Missis T thinks I had a day off school when they did sex education

 

[Billysboots]

We haven’t had temporary greens for well over ten years. In part because the cost of preparing and maintaining them outweighed the cost of repairing any damage to the main greens. But primarily because modern methods seem to mean that greens survive the winter conditions really quite well.

I’m just not sure temps are needed any more.

 

[YandaB]

No temp “greens” where you have a hole on the fairway?

Does waiting means days if a heavy frost hits?

No temp greens at all. Really heavy frosts occasionally mean no play for the day. Usually it's a small number of hours.

 

[Tashyboy]

The only time our course has had temp greens is if work is being done on the greens. Then you putt out with an iron. The temp greens/ hole on the fairway are embarrassing. Esp when they are on comp days.
During the winter we play on the normal frozen greens. The only thing that is then missing on the greens is a windmill and a clown with an opening and closing mouth. It is a lottery.

 

[jim8flog]

The only time our course has had temp greens is if work is being done on the greens. Then you putt out with an iron. The temp greens/ hole on the fairway are embarrassing. Esp when they are on comp days.
During the winter we play on the normal frozen greens. The only thing that is then missing on the greens is a windmill and a clown with an opening and closing mouth. It is a lottery.

Said before

I am reminded on what used to happen on the original 9th hole on our short course.
It was a short par 3 located within a few yards of crossing a river, with a very steep bank on the other side of the green.
When the course was heavily frosted (one year for nearly a month) you used to have to judge where to land your ball short of the river to get the correct bounce to jump the river and finish on the green.

Players not used to it hit full shots on to the green and the ball would end up way up the high bank and sometimes on to the 18 hole for the long course located beyond the bank

The green has since been moved to short of the river.

 

[Orikoru]

We have two greens that have to go onto temps when the greens are frozen. The 1st, because bouncing through the back of that would hit people on the 2nd tee, and the 17th, because bouncing through that would send balls into a road that goes behind it!

 

[D-S]

When we moved to playing on frozen greens instead of temps quite a few years back everyone initially thought it was a great move. A few rounds of Mickey Mouse golf soon meant that the novelty wore off. Fine about once a year but any more than that I prefer the range or studio.

 

[Tashyboy]

A temp Green in play today on our par five. I chipped in with a seven iron from 15 yds for 4/4

 

[Lord Tyrion]

A temp Green in play today on our par five. I chipped in with a seven iron from 15 yds for 4/4

Flag in the fairway?

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

We go onto temporary greens when there has been a number of consecutive days of hard frost - and when we do the gks give us pretty decent standard ones - albeit decent to a good enough to play reasonably sensibly standard.

 

[Tashyboy]

Flag in the fairway?

That’s it, the flag is just plonked there whilst the greenkeeping staff do work on a bunker 60yds away. Why the fairway was not rimmed is beyond me. It is always the same.