How bad has your course been hit this winter.

[Tashyboy]

Sat with young Bradley after his lesson and our club Secretary was talking to two guys on the next table. In essence he was saying he had been given stats that the rounds of golf played over the winter and springtime was down 25%. He mentioned that it was no wonder clubs were struggling.
he said that our course plays 40,000 rounds of golf a year, and it would really struggle if we were to lose 25% over that length of time.
So anyone's course felt the pinch.

 

[Hobbit]

One of the big cactus is looking a bit wind burned

 

[Deleted member 16999]

We suffered no worse than 10 days lost in the past 10 years.

This year we’ve lost 37 days already.
Impact on more than green fees, bar takings etc also down.

 

[USER1999]

Don't really know, but chatting to the course pro, buggy rentals are killing him. They are rented, and with all the trolley bans, he is way out of pocket.

 

[full_throttle]

being on flood plain we have suffered

although not solely reliant on green fees, what we take helps to keep the membership fee down, and allows us to re-invest in new equipment and other projects,

had a good few days in the green fee box, so it's picking up nicely

 

[jim8flog]

I overheard someone talking about one pro is considering not having all the buggies because of all the buggy bans this winter. I do not know if he was talking about our pro. We changed course and club managers last year and have had more buggy bans this winter than in the past 20 years in total(which is when I first bought one).

We have had more course closures this winter than probably in the last ten years in total and more driving range closures in the past 6 months than we have had since the range opened.

As to course condition you would not know now that we have had all the bad weather except that course renovation work is about two weeks behind schedule.

 

[williamalex1]

Not sure if it true but I heard there was a meeting of head green keepers held recently at Sandyhills GC .
Seemingly someone stated that we've only had 60 days without rain in the last 365 days in central Scotland.
No wonder the parkland/moorland courses are sodden.

 

[Jacko_G]

Luckily a member at two links tracks. Both have been playable all year round, greens on Friday at Dundonald were as good as they were last summer. Really impressed about how great they were, and they'll only get faster as the season goes on!

 

[Slime]

I play most weeks, including through the winter, and never played on temps!
The course only seemed to shut when snowed under, but it coped with all the rain we had over the winter.
It's a regular inland course that drains better than most.
Before it was a golf course it was the largest cabbage field in Europe, allegedly.

 

[clubchamp98]

Course been great over winter except for two holes at the bottom of the hill.
Course drains into river at bottom of hill but river has been high for a very long time.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

As wet as it has ever been, even after the drainage work we invested in with the money we got from the Red Bull air races at Ascot. However the greens have held up well and we've managed to retain members and covered those that have gone elsewhere with new members. A few days lost here and there because of snow and waterlogging but all in all we've got through it well enough. Amazing what a difference a few days sun can make and everything so much firmer and greener and now the fairways have been cut its in great nick

 

[PNWokingham]

was very happpy with conditioning this weekend as first time there in months - greens and surrounds and fairways in very good conditioning given the spring.

 

[IanM]

Snow caused more closures than any time for ages.... Course looking nearly normal again now, a few bare bits but hopefully it'll catch up.

 

[patricks148]

The growing season started late as it was a particularly cold winter, but we didn't really have any snow to speak of this side of the Moray Firth. But the greens were Gradened at the end of Oct and TBH there was no change to the condition for 5 months, only now starting to recover.

Fall in the number of rounds over the winter, but its all members anyway, we don't really get many, if any visitor rounds in that time. The last few years has seen a real increase in members playing over winter as its been so mild the last few years, which was the reason we went to mats. The cold def kept many way.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Remarkably unaffected. Greens team took measures to direct traffic well away from close to greens where damage would have occurred and fenced off other areas of rough and fairway where the ground was waterlogged. We are fortunate that with sandy soil and low water table the course drains well in most part.

 

[Marshy77]

Played a course in Leeds yesterday and the pro said that he didn't take any money green fee's for around 6 weeks after the snow in Feb, only just now starting to recover.

 

[Shooter McPowick]

Ours struggles in winter every year but this year has been particularly bad. Even with the hot week last week they couldn't get the heavy machinery onto the fairways to cut as the ground is still too soft.

Here's hoping it stays dry for a few weeks!