Lift from fairway and drop in rough?

[freddielong]

If you can't play the full course you shouldn't pay the full price.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

If you can't play the full course you shouldn't pay the full price.

This. To be honest if I was forced to use a mat or drop in the rough, I wouldn't be playing there. I understand why courses do it, and if it gives a decent course for the majority of the year it makes sense but it's simply something I wouldn't put up with and would either use the winter period for concerted practice or look for a course without these restrictions

 

[Maninblack4612]

its nothing to do with the course being wet for us, in fact the course is bone dry at the moment. Its more to do with the fact that the grass stops growing for 3 or 4 months so the is no growth to repair divots.

we are further north latitude wise than Moscow.

I suppose we are a bit better off than this then. Our greenkeeper cut the fairways today.

 

[Deleted member 16999]

I really don't understand this. Driver aside I take a divot with pretty much every other club off the tee, so I'm not sure how it would protect the fairways.

Hence I don't like it, not likely to take a divot 4 yards off the green knocking it on. Not everyone takes a divot when playing off a tee, some tee it high, some low.

 

[Deleted member 17920]

If you can't play the full course you shouldn't pay the full price.

If your paying a winter rate the your already paying a reduced rate.

 

[jdpjamesp]

Are you paying full rate as in the summer rate or are you paying the winter rate?

For me winter rate is not playing the full course and expecting some bunkers out of action due to refurbishments etc. Its more and more common to find mats and dropping points off the fairway these days.

We have just started it on shorter par 4's by placing just off the fairway, it gives the greenkeepers and the course a real head start once the season starts next year.

From what I can see they have one rate all year round.