How is your course looking?

[ademac]

Played yesterday and my course was in great nick, very happy with it for january!

I know the weather has been kind to courses this winter but even so it was good.
Last week we played on frozen greens (no temps) and there isn't any sign of damage to them. So are temp greens even necessary?? (thats a whole new can of worms!)

So how is your course holding up this winter??

 

[StrangelyBrown]

A bit swampy, on 5 winter greens (the ones not done to USGA spec) and the tees are needing leveled out a bit.

I guess it isn't too bad considering the volume of water that's fallen on it.

 

[Deleted member 1740]

Bit wet in places and boggy where the leccy trollies have been used but we're playing off the fairway now til probably march so hopefully that will give it a rest.

It usually recovers well.

 

[Imurg]

Pretty good actually.
Only a couple of soggy areas that always fill up when it rains but as we've had none really for a few days they'll be drained away. The greens are nothing special, a bit bumpy but you can't really complain for January.
Tee boxes need some attention and we're off mats n the par 3's so that'll help but overall not bad.

 

[patricks148]

Untidy

The reason..... Rooks. Thousands of them, ripping the fairways and some of the greens apart.

Some afternoons walking down the 18th is like a set for the film "The Birds"

Not sure there is anything the club can do as they are protected???

 

[Whee]

My local course, on the whole, is in good nick. There's one green that's not up to par with the others, and we played an extra week on a temp green for that hole. Still, the 'green keepers' have been doing their best.

Not too many bare patches on the fairways, which is surprising - but there isn't enough definition between fairway/second cut/rough, but that's been a problem for years.

Tee boxes are all about normal standard for the course.

 

[wull]

terrible!!!!


i'm not sure where to begin,even during the season last year it was not at it's best and the battering it's took this winter it may be even worse this coming season.

 

[sona]

Very well, mats but no temps. It is not very busy at this time of year.

 

[One Planer]

Fairly good at the minute.

Playing off temps to winter greens but everything seems in good order.

The ground staff have been digging new drainage gulleys over the winter so they'll have time to bed in before the summer. Hopefully reap the benefits of their labour over the coming season.

 

[CallawayKid]

Ours is in great nick, no temps, never do. Greens have been spiked but have recovered well this week. Some tee boxes though look like the worms have been having an orgy...

CK

 

[Bikky73]

Untidy

The reason..... Rooks. Thousands of them, ripping the fairways and some of the greens apart.

Some afternoons walking down the 18th is like a set for the film "The Birds"

Not sure there is anything the club can do as they are protected???

Corvids are very clever birds. They're there for food and maybe nesting materials (starting around this time of year). If there's trees and scruff ground around, the club could dump lambs wool/twigs/cotton etc in piles and such likes in easy reach for the birds to grab nesting materials. And have a couple of scrap food stashes at easy reach for them. It won't take long for them to go for the easy option.

 

[Aztecs27]

Played it on Bank holiday monday and it was soggy, but not in bad nick at all. Should be fine for the summer.

 

[thecraw]

Untidy

The reason..... Rooks. Thousands of them, ripping the fairways and some of the greens apart.

Some afternoons walking down the 18th is like a set for the film "The Birds"

Not sure there is anything the club can do as they are protected???

That sounds like the greenkeeper hasn't sprayed a pesticide onto the greens. Crows, rooks etc come and feast on leather jackets which hatch under the grass, they rip grass to shreds to get at them.

My place is a soggy mess. Greens are fine though.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

The few bits of the proper course I saw on Saturday were pretty good. The greens are still a mess with loads of moss on them but otherwise pretty decent for January

 

[In_The_Rough]

Like a swamp at the moment. Not good at all.

 

[bladeplayer]

Superb .. brilliant actualy ... good tee boxes & fairways , greens are great , Well done our green staff ..

 

[chris661]

Ours is in great shape greens are like lightning already what they going to like when they firm up and dry out tees are being spruced up at the minute and should be in good shape come spring time. All in all course is in really good shape and we have even had growth onthe fairways and greens!

 

[WeekendWarrior]

Bowood hasnt really suffered apart from a bit of disease on the greens in early winter. No mats no temps. Been a pleasure to play!

Few damp patches but nothing to get annoyed about.

 

[pokerjoke]

All i can say is were still playing,so its a bonus.
Course is poor

 

[HickoryShaft]

Recovered well from the toll last year took on it. Had some barren area appearing and looking fairly dead.

We have been off the worst 4 fairways which is a bit of a bind but they scarrified, top dressed and seeded etc and it is looking in really nice condition now. They also added some moisture retaining stuff so it should not get as bad in the future.

All these 4 affected holes have been open but we have had shortened holes and tee boxes placed on the edge of the fairway - pick up and place if you land on one of the repaired areas.

Looks like they have done a top job to me - hope all the moaners appreciate it (there have been many). My view is and always was - better to do the work to get it back in decent shape than to continue to suffer next playing season.