Is your course playing easier at the minute?

Craigg said:
Don't see how they can do this.If it's not GUR,or covered by a local rule,you have to play it as it lies surely.
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There's a local rule mate, anywhere work has been carried out, and there's lots of it, has been classed as gur for now. I've seen some players, low handicappers who really should know better, taking drops from areas which clearly haven't been worked on. Like the rough on the side of a copse which has felled trees etc.
 
Beezerk said:
There's a local rule mate, anywhere work has been carried out, and there's lots of it, has been classed as gur for now. I've seen some players, low handicappers who really should know better, taking drops from areas which clearly haven't been worked on. Like the rough on the side of a copse which has felled trees etc.
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Sounds like it's wide open to abuse then. Maybe it's time they got out with the white spray cans.
 
Beezerk said:
😂
The changes have made it a lot easier at the minute, been lots of high scores recently which is also down to people taking drops from rough/trees claiming it's where work has been carried out.
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Strangely enough just been talking about it this week with lad at work
I've heard a big gob has too the Mick no wonder he has got down this year
 
Wayman said:
Strangely enough just been talking about it this week with lad at work
I've heard a big gob has too the Mick no wonder he has got down this year
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Big gob lol I assume we're on about the same person ha ha. Aye him and his crew have been taking drops galore from what I've seen.
Ironically old gobby is the one who always tries to win games by pulling them for rule breaches.
 
Beezerk said:
Ours must be.
Played in a bottle trot today, shotgun start so 36 pairs out in 4BBB format.
The Snellster and myself shot 42 points and didn't even win a cheap bottle of plonk.
48 won it, followed by two 45's and two 44's 😂
Crazy, or is it?
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Conditions this weekend appear to have been benign in many parts of the country, but the scoring described is due in the main to the 90% allowance in BB formats.

We've had our first round of Winter League this weekend and scores of 45 and 46 won the two divisions. My partner and I had 44 and were not in the prizes, and any pair returning less than 40 points were way off the pace.

The 90% allowance means low single figure golfers playing off full handicap and even an 18 handicap player only losing two shots. It's making a massive difference to BB scoring.
 
Not particularly. Very little bounce or roll on the fairways, which are wet and have plenty of mud patches and worm casts. Approach shots are holding up if they catch the aprons surrounding the greens and the greens themselves are soft, wet and uneven.
 
Slightly, in that the knee-high thick rough has been cut back, meaning that you can miss a fairway by more than about 5 yards and not have to chip out sideways.

Aside from that, not much difference
 
There are goods and bads at ours at the moment. Our greens are slow but very true and personally I like them that way and can putt on them quite well. They are also very receptive, so the ball tends to stop quickly. The grass on the fairways is pretty long, almost like being in the semi-rough, but we don't have preferred lies yet and that makes hitting woods a bit of a gamble. And I can't handle wet bunkers very well. I either leave the ball in, because I am taking too much sand and pretty much get stuck in the wet ground, or I slide over the sand altogether and blade it to god knows where (or straight into the bank). And then there are the leaves. Is there anything more unfair than hitting the fairway and then not finding your ball?
 
Its a mess I know that. Tee boxes like a veg patch, bunkers not raked and greens in a funny state.... /shakes head. I must have missed the email saying we are not bothering repairing pitch marks any more.

Old man rant over... :whistle:
 
Recent results would say yes with more people than normal playing to their handicap or better and winning scores being 2 or 3 shots above what you would expect but I would say it is more down to the decent weather we have had in October. Hardly any wind or rain, playing without waterproofs and the course still reasonably firm. My problem is that I am playing my worst golf of the year so the conditions don't seem to be helping me. Luckily, no more qualifiers until the end of March.
 
With only two seasons in a year, and because winter is still easily hot enough for plant/grass growth, it means the course conditions stay pretty consistent all year round

Only variables are slightly less carry in summer with the added humidity (often offset by the higher temp anyway) and a wee bit of leaf drop in winter from the few deciduous trees but there’s not many of them

Other than that the course pretty much plays the same year round
 
No, even with the greenkeepers doing an excellent job tidying them we have so many trees they can't keep up.

We even have a small sort of leaf hoovering lorry and they can't quite get rid of them quickly enough, must frustrate them just being on leaf duty rather than doing other things
 
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