General Play scores in winter at your club

[KenL]

Simple question. Can you put in a counting score at your club in winter?
If posting a comment, please say where in the country your club is.
Thanks.

 

[KenL]

At my club they take the white tees in, but we can still log a WHS score (off the yellows or reds) over the winter.
We have monthly medals too.
East Lothian.

 

[rulefan]

At my club they take the white tees in, but we can still log a WHS score (off the yellows or reds) over the winter.
We have monthly medals too.
East Lothian.

Much the same here.
Yorkshire.

 

[MACM85]

We can put cards in on Blues,Reds, Yellows only - Whites are only for competion days. All midweek competitions are Blue, Red or Yellow Tees

Surrey

 

[Backache]

We have a measured winter course that you can put cards in from.
Scotland

 

[Imurg]

We're the same in Buckinghamshire. Yellows, Greens or Reds...
Previous clubs haven't run comps or cards between November and April because, being on clay, the courses were , shall we say, mildly moist....
No such problem on the chalk hills where Ellesborough is.
A bit less roll, softer greens, stronger winds but still the most playable course for miles around...
We're even too low for hill fog and too high for valley fog..mostly

 

[Arthur Wedge]

Yes - if the course is on a measure course

At the moment no

Bedfordshire

 

[Klimski]

At the various mud patches I call home, you can put in winter scores. I wouldn't advise it though, as playing mudball is a serious handicap..

 

[GG26]

A number of the tees are moved forward for November to mid-March so the course is not currently rated in that period each year. We are hoping to have the winter course rated during 2026 so cards can be put in during the winter in future years.

 

[Skytot]

Whites & Yellow tees are taken in until March , we play off Black tees boxes in the winter which are Astro turf . Our Saturday comps are team events so non scoring but you can put a Black score round in if you and your mates want a friendly round .
Gtr Manchester

 

[Golfnut1957]

In the past yes, currently no.

The club stopped GP cards in September due to not having a measured course. A new winter green was being constructed on the 10th and due to the battering the tees received during the summer many of the winter tees were brought into play, but on the summer course = no measured course.

Last week's rain has flooded the bottom two holes. When the course re-opens tomorrow, it will be on the winter course, and will remain there until spring. At the same time, I expect GP cards to be re-introduced.

However, and I have stated this before on here, very few cards will go in over the winter. The course is significantly shorter than the whites, but mainly because two long par 4s are out and are replaced with two short par 3s. Some of the holes are only slightly shorter and some are the same length as their summer counterparts.

The result of these changes are a par of 68 but a CR of 65. With the addition of winter conditions, you are behind the 8-ball before you tee off.

The only reason for putting a card in on that course is to get yourself a nice little increase for when the season starts again.

North East England.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

England golf have I believe dictated that each club must have a measure winter course to allow people to put GP cards in 365 days a year

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Northumberland, no GP cards. We've gone to our winter tees and it isn't measured for them. They've talked about getting it done but not so far.

In all honesty I don't think we need them to be in place at our course. It isn't the same in winter, it will only distorts h/c for the main season. Just let winter be fun golf, no consequence golf.

 

[timd77]

Yes - West Midlands

 

[cookelad]

Not at the current course, judging by the conditions today the back 9 will be closed soon and the tee's will be moved forward on a number of holes on the front.

At the other course "in" the city you can, but, they close the whole course at slightly inclement weather at this time of year, if there's a frost they'll close rather than going on temps.

 

[Mandofred]

I've been putting most of my cards in at Oakdale....but bugger me if I can figure out how they compute things. I had a good round the other day that was +4 and it knocked another +4 off the graph. The computer computes it as about +8. No idea......

 

[Mel Smooth]

No not at my course, but Huddersfield a few miles away will most likely have the tee markers on for much of the winter.

 

[PhilTheFragger]

We're the same in Buckinghamshire. Yellows, Greens or Reds...
Previous clubs haven't run comps or cards between November and April because, being on clay, the courses were , shall we say, mildly moist....
No such problem on the chalk hills where Ellesborough is.
A bit less roll, softer greens, stronger winds but still the most playable course for miles around...
We're even too low for hill fog and too high for valley fog..mostly

But perfect for brain fog

 

[Swingalot]

Yes. Whites brought in, but we have yellows and 'winter'course measured off the mats at front of tees.

Kent

 

[srixon 1]

We can but we are off the winter tees which makes me lose 3 shots so I don’t bother. Miss the fairway and you get a mud ball so I don’t see the point of a general play card in those conditions.