Golf Course Closed again

[D-S]

Why wouldn't they?

No reason why they shouldn’t buy was interested to know if they confined E-2 to specific areas or generally in all the rough when playing qualifiers. The advice recommends using it, for qualifiers, in specific areas and extreme conditions only.

 

[rulefan]

I assume when you say 'muddy balls in the rough' this is Local Rule E-2? Is this limited to specific areas and are you playing 'qualifiers' with E-2 in place?

Yes x 3

 

[D-S]

Yes x 3

Thanks.

 

[Tashyboy]

I'm heading for Inverness next weekend. Please sort our better weather!

Where are you playing

 

[Tashyboy]

The transformation in our place over the last two weeks has been phenomenal. The course looks gorgeous. The greens are running lovely.

 

[Imurg]

Need this rain were going to have tonight to quieten our greens down a bit....they're.......getting quicker shall we say....️🌩

 

[Shooter McPowick]

Need this rain were going to have tonight to quieten our greens down a bit....they're.......getting quicker shall we say....️🌩

We’re the same. Becoming easy to putt straight off some of them now.

 

[Crazyface]

Anyone else's course still on fairway mats ?

Taken off today

 

[rulefan]

My wife played yesterday. Course excellent, greens brilliant.
Sunday before I get the chance.

 

[federalexpress]

Hosepipe ban now in force...

 

[Orikoru]

Hosepipe ban now in force...

That's probably just as well, there's enough water on the ground as it is!

 

[Oddsocks]

I feel for the northerners here, played a local p&p council owned 9 hole Wednesday and it was bone dry and could do with some rain!

 

[simo71]

Taken off today

Still on mats here in the NW at our course. Comps off turf but social golf off mats. Members not happy.

 

[The Lion]

Hosepipe ban now in force...

Some good bants

 

[federalexpress]

Still on mats here in the NW at our course. Comps off turf but social golf off mats. Members not happy.

I'm not surprised. I am among that large minority- at some clubs, maybe even the majority- who rarely plays in comps, but enjoys social golf.

Given we all pay the same fee for presumably the same access, it has always amused me that people think their game is more important and to be prioritised simply because they happen to be writing a number down on a card. My own perspective is their game is supremely unimportant to me....

 

[Bunkermagnet]

I'm not surprised. I am among that large minority- at some clubs, maybe even the majority- who rarely plays in comps, but enjoys social golf.

Given we all pay the same fee for presumably the same access, it has always amused me that people think their game is more important and to be prioritised simply because they happen to be writing a number down on a card. My own perspective is their game is supremely unimportant to me....

It won't be the members making that call, but the commitee/course manager. Whether off a mat or grass, youre still playing golf.
This winter we have be trialling farway mats to see if there is any difference come spring. Well, we have now gone back onto the grass and the difference is astounding in how good the fairways are after the very wet winter but off mats.
I can't see us not using fairways mats every winter going forward now.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Given we all pay the same fee for presumably the same access, it has always amused me that people think their game is more important and to be prioritised simply because they happen to be writing a number down on a card. My own perspective is their game is supremely unimportant to me....

I get the same level of annoyance when someone playing an internal club match expects everyone else on the course to step aside for them 'because we are playing a match'. Big whuppy doo

 

[JonnyGutteridge]

Played yesterday and the golf course was utterly transformed.

Fast running, firm, dry… suddenly all the divots seem to have disappeared.

All my putts were going 6ft past

 

[federalexpress]

It won't be the members making that call, but the commitee/course manager. Whether off a mat or grass, youre still playing golf.
This winter we have be trialling farway mats to see if there is any difference come spring. Well, we have now gone back onto the grass and the difference is astounding in how good the fairways are after the very wet winter but off mats.
I can't see us not using fairways mats every winter going forward now.

Of course, it will be the committees or board doing that but it doesn't change my point. My game is at least as important to me as theirs is to them.

Mats for all, without discriminating, is a different matter if needed to improve course condition. Generally we don't use them except once for some major overseeding. Personally I loathe them and instead played each shot from the rough, when we had our mats down for 6 weeks (that was the other option offered).

Here's hoping next winter is a bit more normal...

 

[federalexpress]

I get the same level of annoyance when someone playing an internal club match expects everyone else on the course to step aside for them 'because we are playing a match'. Big whuppy doo

Yes although my own experience is stuck behind them as they take 5 hours for a round because it's 'a match'.

What cracks me up is the time they take to line up a putt when they can't even reliably hit a putt straight....