Getting fed-up....

[Imurg]

with playing Winter Golf in July...
It's as wet or wetter than it is in February...

Stupid thing is, a my place, we have a ban on trolleys without hedgehog wheels from November to March.

The ban is off now, as it's July, but the ground is wetter than it was in the Winter....
Logic there somewhere.

 

[swanny32]

Don't worry, the sun will soon be here. Forecast for the weekend and next week looking a million times better.

 

[BoadieBroadus]

in 6 years of playing i'd never had to abandon a round until this summer and i've had to do it 4 times in 6 weeks now. the ground is so saturated that 20 mins of the type of rain we're getting at the moment and the greens are flooded.

we've had the same fairway puddles for almost 3 months now.

 

[doc333]

Going to be a lot of clubs going under this year. Most clubs are fighting to get pay and play visitors and societies, but our place has had a few days this summer when it's had to close. We've had 2 bad winters where even courses that never close couldn't play because of sub zero temp's and snow. Can't remember the last time I played on firm bouncy fairways, oh yes I can it was in Spain last October

 

[pbrown7582]

It's way beyond a joke and the ground is so soft and wet our greens were like memory foam on the weekend! A great week forecast too not rain mon tues weds thurs fri unbelievable!

 

[chris661]

Zero closures at my place this year for weather although it's only this week that the greens and fairways are beginning to firm up.

 

[FairwayDodger]

Fire brigade were round at my place today - pumping out water from one of the flooded areas, apparently.

 

[patricks148]

My advice would be to join a Links course

 

[FairwayDodger]

My advice would be to join a Links course

Giving it serious consideration, although possibly as well as rather than instead of the current place.

 

[Imurg]

My advice would be to join a Links course

Unfortunately I'm as far from the coast as you can get......

 

[SatchFan]

My local course usually has six holes out of play between November and March owing to a clay subsoil and therefore standing water on the fairways. I played last Thursday (out of desperation) and these holes were totally awash and the rest of the course wasn't too clever either. I have never seen it this bad and yet all 18 holes were open. Pressures of being a public course I guess but it is really pointless playing at the moment. Thank goodness the Open is on the telly this week.

 

[User 105]

Our place is one of the best draining courses in the area. We're usually still open when just about everywhere else has closed.

But even we've lost 2-3 days over the weekend this summer. And I know they've lost a lot of weekdays as well.

And that's amazing at our place, as it's a crown golf course, they'll open it up as soon as possible to keep the money coming in.

As has been said, the ground is just so wet as soon as we get any kind of rain the greens are flooding.

 

[Neddy]

Played on Sunday and the fairway grass was thicker than a lot of semi rough I've been in and the greens were so spongy i felt like i was about to get sucked into the earth.

Worry is it will take weeks of dry weather for things to return to normal. And how likely does that look?

 

[splashtryagain]

pbrown - the common has always been soggy so I can sympathise with the conditions you are experiencing!!
Played with my FIL yesterday and he couldn't believe how dry my course was - no grass or mud on the shoes at all (sole included). For once my particularly wet corner of england has seemed drier than usual

 

[rosecott]

My advice would be to join a Links course

Unfortunately I'm as far from the coast as you can get......

There's always heathland - we've had as much heavy rain as everyone else but the course has not been closed and has remained perfectly playable.

 

[timchump]

since joining a links course about a year a go, i can positively say the rain has virtually no effect on the condition of the course. though it doesn't take away from the fact that continuously playing in the wind and rain in june and july sucks.

the only positive thing is my club is looking to invest nearly a million £ in a new irrigation system they can probably delay at least another year now

 

[patricks148]

since joining a links course about a year a go, i can positively say the rain has virtually no effect on the condition of the course. though it doesn't take away from the fact that continuously playing in the wind and rain in june and july sucks.

the only positive thing is my club is looking to invest nearly a million £ in a new irrigation system they can probably delay at least another year now

my club invested in one about 4 years ago and i don't think its been used since.
the only positive is the the sprinklers heads all have yardage markers on the to front and middle.

 

[AmandaJR]

Also totally fed up with the weather - Captains Day postponed on Saturday, still closed on Sunday and only front 9 open today and probably through the week. Wyboston Lakes wasn't supposed to include the whole back 9 as a water hazard.

Planning to play at Mowsbury tomorrow as they won't close and to be fair drain better than our place as no water hazards on the course nor a river running round much of it. Mowsbury Special is 18 holes, chef's dish of the day and a pint for £16.80 so can't be bad.

So many competitions postponed it's beyond a joke. Also lost a lot of big society groups so bet they'll be crammed on and ruin what summer we finally get for members! This week it would be impossible to play on Wed and Fri as both tees in use so 9 holes only unless you follow hosts of 4 balls hacking their way round the course.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I have to say Royal Ascot is coping. We've not lost any days and it isn't too flooded although there is some standing water. I hope we do get some sun soon as it's getting depressing playing in jumpers and having to have waterproofs permanently packed

 

[Crow]

All this rain makes me appreciate the work that's been done every year at my course over the last 8 or 10 years.

Laid out about 30 odd years ago on farm land on Leciestershire clay, it used to have one of the worst reputations in the area for winter play, with most reviews saying don't even go there in winter.

But I'd say it's definitely well above the average for playability in the area now. We've lost a few days this "summer" but far less than a lot of the courses in the area.

Last Friday night we had a huge downpour and the course had streams running along paths and some fairways first thing Saturday but the course opened with 17 holes on temp greens then on Sunday all holes open and unless you'd been there on Saturday you wouldn't have believed how wet it had been.