Greens Maintainence

[Imurg]

Ridges, holes, sand all over the greens today.
Impossible to putt on them.






Still only took 33 putts and came in with a 74 gross (par 70)
Another level par back 9 to go with a level handicap front.

Why couldn't I do that at Hanbury last week.........
75% fairways
61% GIR
1.82 putts/GIR
18% birdie conversion

Ahh...
Sometimes things just go right don't they....

 

[fundy]

nice shooting Imurg

seems a strange time to be doing maintenance on them, though if theyre anything like ours they are deperate for some rain

 

[USER1999]

Maintainance. That's what it is. I thought they had deliberately gone out of their way to totally ruin the greens to make the medal more difficult. But no, it's maintainance.

Oddly, when I maintain something, I don't normally make it worse.

 

[vig]

ours done this week as well, Is in the club diaries though

 

[Wildrover]

They are normally done at the beginning and end of the season. They will soon recover with a bit of rain and some growth.

 

[USER1999]

We have had ours done about 6 times since November. I can't see why they will stop doing it any time soon. They seem to like doing it, and now the suns coming out it must be quite a pleasant job. Every time they start to look good, out comes the machinery again.

 

[Crazyface]

Six times since November!!! They must have been a right mess !!!!

 

[USER1999]

They have been a mess all year so far, with about one week of being fantastic. Then out comes the machinery again. hopefully they have done it for the last time til autumn, but I'm not holding my breath.

 

[upsidedown]

Annoying as it is you'd soon be moaning if no maintenance, coring, etc etc was carried out as the greens would be shagged in no time !!

 

[Oddsocks]

i feel your pain. i played on tuesday night at one of my locals ive shortlisted for membership,

bunkers - medium to good
Fairways - nice definition and good nick
fringes - mint
greens, overgrown, bumpy and just been cored.

Played out of my socks with atleast 50% GIR, more like 65%, just couldnt putt as things were bouncing all over the place. cant see why their coring now. Will be going back in a fortnight to see if they are any better.

 

[USER1999]

Coring, hollow tining, micro tining, slashing, dressing, yep, it all needs to be done. Our greens were superb last year, and hopefully will be again this year. We just seem to have more than our fair share of it.