Preferred lies in may

[Deleted member 29109]

.......... and my course is showing the problem that no rain and cold weather brings, not to mention the leatherjackets!

My place is the same. We've had 5ml of rain in April. All of it on Monday evening.

The cold weather and frost we've had, has meant the grass just isn't growing.

 

[rulefan]

We have permanent preferred lies so no issue for us.

How did you get that through the County Union?

 

[richart]

We ditched preferred lies few weeks ago. Fairways are as good as I can remember, good covering of grass, but nice and tight. Typical heathland fairways which may have recovered better than parkland ones over the last couple of months ? Different type of grass ? Just lovely for punching a nice iron off, but quite tight for the three wood.

 

[SaintHacker]

How did you get that through the County Union?

No idea its been in place for years as far as i know. Because the course is on open forest land it gets a good bit of animal damage, so preferred lies stops any divot/animal scrape arguments

 

[Carpfather1]

Our place has been in top condition to be fair,Been blown away by the condition of it lately but it is a links course mind and as a result is starting to brown up in places which is early in the year to be doing so .

 

[patricks148]

We usually have PL up until the the findley cup which was last weekend, this year we didn't have it at all.
not sure why that was though

 

[Flash]

Leatherjacket lava now invading the greens and the crows digging holes to find the live ones. As if putting wasn't difficult enough in the dry conditions. Looks like the usual bank holiday weather will solve at least one decision.

 

[Deleted member 23344]

My course has just extended preferred lies. Played another local course last Friday and the fairways were in fabulous condition, but the tee boxes and greens were very poor.

 

[Sats]

Our place should be off PL by now, but I'll find out tomorrow.

 

[Britishshooting]

Same for us, must admit I never found myself improving my lie from the fairway so they aren’t exactly patchy or bad just not getting that same growth or as lush as usual.

Vast difference from this year to last including the budding of trees etc.