FuzzyDuck
Assistant Pro
Is this widespread or is it just my club? Preferred lies have just been extended to July 14th to help the course recover, which incidentally looks fine.
I heard yesterday that the members of Portrush have been playing off mats in order to protect the course for the Open, to make it look immaculate. Your committee haven't got the venues mixed up have they?Is this widespread or is it just my club? Preferred lies have just been extended to July 14th to help the course recover, which incidentally looks fine.
I should know the answer but where are you again? We should be on preferred lies especially on the 3rd 4th which were badly affected last year and simply haven't recovered and a good drive is penalised with a bare lie or rolling just off any grass leaving a horrible lieIs this widespread or is it just my club? Preferred lies have just been extended to July 14th to help the course recover, which incidentally looks fine.
Could you not just mark the areas GUR?I should know the answer but where are you again? We should be on preferred lies especially on the 3rd 4th which were badly affected last year and simply haven't recovered and a good drive is penalised with a bare lie or rolling just off any grass leaving a horrible lie
No uncommon this year. Many courses had severe fairway burn last summer.Is this widespread or is it just my club? Preferred lies have just been extended to July 14th to help the course recover, which incidentally looks fine.
I played ther a 6 weeks/2 months ago and there are some genuinely ropey fairways that, presumably, haven't recovered from the pasting they took last year. They are likely to be taking another beating currently, in spite of seriously dedicated efforts (slicing and seeding) by ground staff! Much sympathy on my part! It's another case of finding and correcting the 'weak' parts - in this case lack of water, in others...too much! - of a (relatively) new course!Could you not just mark the areas GUR?
Our preferred lies ended the end of April, as per the KGU. When we had the amateur champs a few weeks back, the KGU came round and marked a few bare-ish patches we have as GUR, they aren't fairways just a bit scabby.
What are preferred lies?
Sometimes needed on courses that are interesting and not big open fields.