Golf Random Irritations

[clubchamp98]

Old club I was a member they used to always blame green fee players.....

One Saturday I did a song and dance in the clubhouse.....and told all and sundry there were no green fee players and I repaired 12 on one green.

It is a pet hate of mine...how many times you walk onto the green and there are pitch marks near the hole and no one has repaired them.

It’s because most golfers think they spin the ball like a pro.
They might have a look a yard or two by the ball but can’t find a pitch mark.

The fact their Pinnacle landed 20 yds away on the front of the green escapes them.
When you tell them they say “ no that’s not mine “
This is what I have noticed over the years.

 

[rulie]

It’s because most golfers think they spin the ball like a pro.
They might have a look a yard or two by the ball but can’t find a pitch mark.

The fact their Pinnacle landed 20 yds away on the front of the green escapes them.
When you tell them they say “ no that’s not mine “
This is what I have noticed over the years.

Repair it anyway!!

 

[clubchamp98]

Repair it anyway!!

Yes I do two or three if there close to me.
But would be there all day doing more.

 

[KenL]

Agreed and well done for calling it a pitch mark repairer instead of a "divot tool" ranks right up there with "fairway metal" on my fingernails on a blackboard list

What divot tool do you game @cookelad?

 

[garyinderry]

Yes I do two or three if there close to me.
But would be there all day doing more.

Really grinds my gears. If everyone did 2 or 3 there would be none at all.

This time of year really shows the laziness of people.

 

[Lucifer MorningStar]

Me! I’m my golfing irritation today, well that and the physio. After a few weeks of treatment got the all clear to Do some push/pull exercises with the shoulder. So did them yesterday evening in the gym as prescribed. Didn’t feel too bad, did the stretches today and went to the range! 25 balls into a bucket of 120 I had walk away, so much stiffness and pain could not swing freely or get through the ball. Even sat here now the pain is terrible and going up into my neck!

So irritating as last couple of weeks not doing those exercises I’ve been able to swing and play taking several steps forward with my game hitting it well including just yesterday, now I can’t even push a door open !

 

[sunshine]

Some clubs only have themselves to blame. My club has put in a path around the majority of the course in the past 2 years to ensure that we can have trollies and buggies all year round. We should only shut for flooded greens (temporarily through the day) and snow - fingers crossed!

No thanks. I don’t want an ugly concrete go kart track around my golf course.

 

[Neilds]

No thanks. I don’t want an ugly concrete go kart track around my golf course.

Other types of paths are available

 

[Slab]

No thanks. I don’t want an ugly concrete go kart track around my golf course.

Agree it doesn’t necessarily sound aesthetic but in practice even with 12km+ of concrete path, you don’t see it that much when walking and the benefits are real & not just the lack of wear by players in rain etc (GKs can get all their machines anywhere on the course without driving on fairway)

Green to tee traffic creates no wear at all… but best of all I can get the cart buggy’s wheels to squeal on the corner between 17th green & 18th tee

 

[upsidedown]

Agree it doesn’t necessarily sound aesthetic but in practice even with 12km+ of concrete path, you don’t see it that much when walking and the benefits are real & not just the lack of wear by players in rain etc (GKs can get all their machines anywhere on the course without driving on fairway)

Green to tee traffic creates no wear at all… but best of all I can get the cart buggy’s wheels to squeal on the corner between 17th green & 18th tee

12km at 2m wide ,100mm deep works out at £240,000 just for the concrete. Can see why its just the big courses that can justify it.
Recycled astro turf from old football pitches etc and woodchip are cheaper alternatives

 

[Arthur Wedge]

No thanks. I don’t want an ugly concrete go kart track around my golf course.

It’s either that or course gets closed to all

 

[Depreston]

Course closed hopefully open by the weekend but will be plugged balls on one of the fields till April now

What a year for dry weather though

 

[Slab]

12km at 2m wide ,100mm deep works out at £240,000 just for the concrete. Can see why its just the big courses that can justify it.
Recycled astro turf from old football pitches etc and woodchip are cheaper alternatives

Yeah won’t be cheap to add it in. Luckily it was part of the design when course/clubhouse was built 10yrs ago so prob made it in the ‘incidentals’ column (the 2km of two lane driveway done in monoblock prob cost more) I suppose being part of the original design makes it much easier to have the path visually hidden from a players view on each hole

 

[nickjdavis]

Yeah won’t be cheap to add it in. Luckily it was part of the design when course/clubhouse was built 10yrs ago so prob made it in the ‘incidentals’ column (the 2km of two lane driveway done in monoblock prob cost more) I suppose being part of the original design makes it much easier to have the path visually hidden from a players view on each hole

Yeah...when i played with you the cart path was pretty much "anonymous"...mostly hidden behind trees or mounds or on elevated areas that were not obvious from the fairway.

 

[clubchamp98]

Agree it doesn’t necessarily sound aesthetic but in practice even with 12km+ of concrete path, you don’t see it that much when walking and the benefits are real & not just the lack of wear by players in rain etc (GKs can get all their machines anywhere on the course without driving on fairway)

Green to tee traffic creates no wear at all… but best of all I can get the cart buggy’s wheels to squeal on the corner between 17th green & 18th tee

Depending on the foundations the paths can act as a dam and keep water on low lying places.
So has to be planned properly.

 

[Slab]

Yeah...when i played with you the cart path was pretty much "anonymous"...mostly hidden behind trees or mounds or on elevated areas that were not obvious from the fairway.

Yeah and with 90% of rounds played with carts its not a luxury item, cant begin to imagine the wear of 30-40k rounds without it

 

[Slab]

Depending on the foundations the paths can act as a dam and keep water on low lying places.
So has to be planned properly.

Luckily the course is built on lava rock so its extremely porous and any run off/daming for path is almost inconsequential. Never seen drainage like it, after tropical storm rain it can go from flooded to playable in no time, crazy to see

 

[cookelad]

Reading the handicap change & (to some extent) the who won what threads, and getting (randomly) irritated at the fact that clubs over here only put on about 8 qualifying comps a year, roughly one per month from April through to November, we would play 8 comps in August back at the courses I played in the UK!

 

[sunshine]

Agree it doesn’t necessarily sound aesthetic but in practice even with 12km+ of concrete path, you don’t see it that much when walking and the benefits are real & not just the lack of wear by players in rain etc (GKs can get all their machines anywhere on the course without driving on fairway)

Green to tee traffic creates no wear at all… but best of all I can get the cart buggy’s wheels to squeal on the corner between 17th green & 18th tee

This works in a modern resort style course where everyone uses a buggy, holes are spaced out, and the path can be shielded by mounds.

Building a buggy path on top of a 100 year old course is a different prospect. The playing corridors are much narrower. Imagine a cart track on Swinley Forest or Muirfield, it would be an act of vandalism!

 

[Slab]

This works in a modern resort style course where everyone uses a buggy, holes are spaced out, and the path can be shielded by mounds.

Building a buggy path on top of a 100 year old course is a different prospect. The playing corridors are much narrower. Imagine a cart track on Swinley Forest or Muirfield, it would be an act of vandalism!

Yeah can’t really argue with the challenge of sticking concrete path on courses that were never designed to have one, just showing how it works where one was intended to be