They must be heavily soaking them overnight if that is the case. They are watering up here, they would be brown and dead if not, but the temps and the wind are just drying them out and making them hard.
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Arthur Wedge
Well-known member
Water table
Right now the level of the water table around the country is very very low
All three of our ponds are now dry
Any rain that happens now in short bursts won’t add much - need consistent rain - ie - Mon through to Thursday
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
The one pond on our course that always dried up but hasn't for the last three yrs is now dry...it took a while as I think the local water table has been higher than in the past and has taken these last few months to drop. But pretty dry it now is. Plus a new extreme wet weather 'water-holding' area we created two years ago and that has been full since it was created - it too is now bone dry. The very heavy thunderstorm of Sunday made little or no impression and any sign that we have had a downpour has gone.Water table
Right now the level of the water table around the country is very very low
All three of our ponds are now dry
Any rain that happens now in short bursts won’t add much - need consistent rain - ie - Mon through to Thursday
We are fortunate to have a bore-hole extraction license for a good amount of water - but much of that has now been used...and weather forecast is dry and warm-hot for ten days.
I could post this under Golf Things that Gladden the Heart - but that's a rather myopic view of things.
Springveldt
Well-known member
I can see why some clubs would do it though. As @rudebhoy said, the county event is taking place at his club and it's basically taking the next 2 Saturdays from them. It's a fairly busy club, when I was there a Saturday comp could have anywhere between 110-140 entries depending on the weekend. The course courtesies offered up by other clubs come nowhere near the amount required and they were all usually after 2pm once they had played their own competitions. Any of the decent ones would go instantly and you had to be in the clubhouse for them going on the wall, usually during working hours. For someone like me who at one time could only play on a Saturday morning it would mean I'd be losing 2 weekends of golf right in prime summer weather.
Springveldt
Well-known member
Like last Wednesday. I had a 16:20 tee time booked and the course was actually closed due to flooding when the heavens opened at 15:00. Played the weekend and you are still getting 40 yards of run on drives but a couple of wedges into greens actually only released about 5 yards rather than the 20 they have been. No pitchmarks though.
KenL
Tour Rookie
Surely this is a good thing? A course that goes from flooded to dry quickly will be more playable October to April?
Springveldt
Well-known member
Aye but it’s a links course and has been as hard as the car park for the last 2 months, even the greens. Been bloody difficult to play.
hors limite
Assistant Pro
Evian Golf. One of the commentators, if a voice could be distilled from a nail dragging down a blackboard - she's perfected it!
KenL
Tour Rookie
I raise you.
moogie
Tour Winner
arnieboy
Challenge Tour Pro
With her tee ball and flat stick comments she does grate on me.
Imurg
The Grinder Of Pars (Semi Crocked)
I am constantly staggered by how long it takes some people to play this game...
Backache
Assistant Pro
Another round over two and a half hours?
Imurg
The Grinder Of Pars (Semi Crocked)
That was just the back 9........
As a 2 ball we normally get round in 3 1/4 hours or so....nearly 4 3/4 today in burning heat.....painful.
Backache
Assistant Pro
Ouch.
D-S
Well-known member
Hilly local course, blazing heat (simply too hot, wouldn’t dream of playing in these temps without a buggy abroad), sloppy golf (mine). The only good thing was the excellent turnout and a lot of money made for charity.
nickjdavis
Head Pro
I picked 7 or 8 plums off the tree by our 7th green today. Lovely they were.
Put my hand in the bag compartment where I store my tees rummaging for a short tee on the 16th....found three warm semi mushed plums that I'd forgotten about and not noticed in the intervening holes.
Put my hand in the bag compartment where I store my tees rummaging for a short tee on the 16th....found three warm semi mushed plums that I'd forgotten about and not noticed in the intervening holes.
jim8flog
Journeyman Pro
We had one of those this morning, so much so we only played 9 holes. 3 groups waiting on the first and 2 waiting groups on every tee after the first.
KenL
Tour Rookie
Others on the course need to do more to get the slower groups to speed up or let others through.
Neilds
Assistant Pro
Do you have bookings? Can’t see any reason to have groups waiting on the first hole unless people are teeing off too early and not allowing the course to flow properly.
