General Play scores in winter at your club

[KenL]

What we found was when there wet or frozen ( frosty) spikeless shoes are useless.
They led to quite a few injuries as when your foot goes your on a raised platform.

Saw one guy took the skin right off his shin as it raked down the steel framework.
So spikes are a must for me.

Some courses get closed when it is frosty on health and safety grounds and others install hazards like these.

 

[clubchamp98]

Some courses get closed when it is frosty on health and safety grounds and others install hazards like these.

To be fair the ones I played at my old club were baldy and absolute death traps.
So I wore proper spikes .
But the frost build up on the spikes was terrible.

Winter golf

 

[IanM]

These permanent platform winter tee mats serve a valuable purpose.

Demonstrates somewhere that will probably get really muddy in the winter!

 

[Arthur Wedge]

I will try.
There dangerous when there frozen.
The ones we had in a metal frame were not big enough.
They wore down very quickly because there was no give under the mat .
I got golfers elbow of these as there like bricks.

But they serve a purpose during winter.

Just asking but can they be used for Q comps.

The ones we have had in for a while don’t freeze too much and they have also been built with a bit of give under them

 

[clubchamp98]

The ones we have had in for a while don’t freeze too much and they have also been built with a bit of give under them

Posh ones!

Mats have got better

 

[NearHull]

If the weather conditions risk slippy/icy mats, the green staff put the markers back onto the grass teeing area.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

Posh ones!

Mats have got better

Yep - it’s almost as if the greenkeeper has done his homework to ensure it’s all done properly

Some courses get closed when it is frosty on health and safety grounds and others install hazards like these.

And doesn’t create a hazard

 

[KenL]

The ones we have had in for a while don’t freeze too much and they have also been built with a bit of give under them

Are they wooden platforms? Do they move? I once hit off one and it felt very strange.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

Are they wooden platforms? Do they move? I once hit off one and it felt very strange.

No they aren’t on wooden platforms and they will be built into the ground

 

[KenL]

No they aren’t on wooden platforms and they will be built into the ground

That sounds better than some I’ve seen.

 

[LincolnShep]

Even after several years on this forum, I'm still occasionally amazed at what some golfers will moan about.

 

[LincolnShep]

This provides us with a measured course, but nobody in their right mind would submit a GP for it.

Unless the course is "turned off" you will always get people submitting GP cards. Whether they're in their right mind or not doesn't really make a difference.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

These permanent platform winter tee mats serve a valuable purpose.

Demonstrates somewhere that will probably get really muddy in the winter!

Guess you won’t want to play anywhere that uses mats during the winter anywhere - surely just demonstrates that the course will be really muddy in the winter

 

[simsini]

I don't understand why? It's for winter only but even so, I don't get the hostility.

There are enough courses to play that don't have them. They are not grass, they make the course shorter and the tees can be to the side, they can also not align in the right direction and give no opportunity to change your teeing position, also they are usually covered in muddy footprints as I'm left handed.

And as others have pointed out, it typically demonstrates that the course will be wetter than those that don't use them. Lots of reasons.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

There are enough courses to play that don't have them. They are not grass, they make the course shorter and the tees can be to the side, they can also not align in the right direction and give no opportunity to change your teeing position, also they are usually covered in muddy footprints as I'm left handed.

And as others have pointed out, it typically demonstrates that the course will be wetter than those that don't use them. Lots of reasons.

We can have our tees open all year round if we want but winter conditions around the UK are ever changing - more courses should use them to help protect the course during months when the grass doesn’t grow

More and more top 100 courses are using mats on fairways , mats on tees - to try and keep the course open more

A club using them doesn’t mean they will be wetter than others - I know for certain that our course is far drier than other courses in the areas that don’t use them and I have seen the mess they become

You shouldn’t make judgments on courses based on what they do to protect the course

 

[Lord Tyrion]

@simsini there are courses that don't use them, but I'm not a member of one .

No, they aren't grass but so what? I'm putting a tee in one and hitting driver. Why do I need grass for that?

Our winter tees are not on our tee boxes anyway so the course is inevitably shorter. Using these means it doesn't become even shorter again as the tees get moved to reduce the damage.

They align correctly if set up correctly.

No, you can't particularly change where you tee up but that isn't a major sacrifice.

Can't answer about the left handed aspect but I suspect that is an issue whatever. When I've played so far however, they haven't been muddy so not yet a problem.

Our course doesn't have major problems, a few key places but ironically not the tee boxes. However in winter, as mentioned, we don't use the tee boxes. I'd rather tee off on a properly built mat then stand in increasingly muddy areas.

If you play on a links course or one build on limestone or sand, you don't need these. If you play at a parkland course I'd say they are an asset.

 

[KenL]

I’m not a mod, but it is “my thread”, let’s move on.

Or close it???

 

[Mandofred]

I’m not a mod, but it is “my thread”, let’s move on.

Or close it???

Then...close all threads?

 

[KenL]

Then...close all threads?

Ones that go massively off topic, perhaps.

 

[cvieri32]

Reds only for qualifying scores for us