Frustrated by our Greens

[bobmac]

bobmac has a vid of three similar putts doing three different things. sometimes its just luck. would try to find it but using an iphone and typing this is hard enough

This one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg2MxkW8Bxo

I heard last week that club lost all of its greens (9 holes) and have been on temps all season while an "expert" fixes them

 

[Monty_Brown]

My place has also had the hollow tining gear out. They did it the week before the biggest comp of the year, a 36-hole two-day chalice. Genius.

Saying "it looked good in the air" about playing partners' putts has stopped being funny and is now just a downright tragic comment on the state of the greens.

I was hoping to use the early weeks of autumn to take advantage of softer conditions for one last push on my handicap for the year, but the greens looking like a solitaire board isn't helping....

 

[HomerJSimpson]

We lost our greens this year. They have been rubbish and full of moss. Smooth enough but dead slow and hard to decide how much break to allow for the variations between green mossy area and back to green. They had STRI into help and are slowly winning but with winter and inevitable snow it is a matter of time before snow mould and moss/thatch reappear again

 

[SocketRocket]

Mmm...I had 30 putts in my round of 74 last sunday....I take it you dont miss many.

Why did you need to post this? Did I level any critisism at you or anyone else, did I boast at the number of putts I made in my last game. No!! I just gave some advice from my own putting routine when playing slow greens and it was not a cut and paste either. The OP was frustrated by the way the ball was breaking and didnt understand why. I attempted to help him, I never charged him £50 for a lesson I just gave a little of my spare time to help someone else. You know what, I would have been better not wasting my time if it means getting assinus comments like yours.

 

[SocketRocket]

SocketRocket must love a cut & paste from internet instruction sites!!

I've gone past fustration with our greens, they are better now than they were in the best of the summer. So narked off with that happening and progressively getting worse year on year that I've binned the membership there and taken up the offer at a different club.

I dont cut and paste anything in my replies, I dont expect you will believe that but just maybe the putting routine I use is similar to that used by other good golfers. Good practice is good practice after all.

I have not attacked anyone with personal insults but you amongst some others here seem to be a little short on manners and rather quick to turn on the sarcasm. Sadly that seems to be the modus operandi of so many today. Good luck with your golf.

 

[HawkeyeMS]

As Homer says, there are a few tricky ones at our place. In fact, there are a couple of greens that even after a year I still get wrong.

There is a putt from the front of our 15th when putting to a middle right pin that breaks left to right about 3 inches all day long. Every time I've had that putt it's done the same thing. However, I played with Sundance a few weeks back, he had the same putt for birdie and it went left - it never goes left, it's a left to right putt but it went left. Whether it was the grain of the grass which has been a bit longer to try to fight the moss or whether he hooked it I don't know but it should have gone in.

 

[Robobum]

Good luck with your golf.

Thanks SocketRocket and good luck with your's too. Don't forget, "never up, never in"

 

[Slicer30]

Imurg - our 12th hole par 3 SI 18. Supposedly the easiest hole on the course. I struggle with that green every week.

slopes to the 11th Green, but I have seen all sorts of weird breaks on that hole.