Arthur Wedge
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Again - how do you floodlight the island green with your standard $500 floodlight being aware of the geography of the hole
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Again - how do you floodlight the island green with your standard $500 floodlight being aware of the geography of the hole
Whereditgo
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Come on Phil, it would be easy....just a few minutes to set up.
Arthur Wedge
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Yep can see the boats around the green and to the side of the 16th green and fairwayCome on Phil, it would be easy....just a few minutes to set up.
Slab
Occasional Tour Caddy
How would you (safely) get 30-40 thousand spectators out of a golf course in the dark. You’d have to illuminate way more than just the three holes, right the way to the car park exits etc & it would still take hours to empty them
WorldHandicapSystem
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Mel seems to think a couple of mobile floodlights from HSS would be good enough.Although I'm half expecting Mel Smooth to suggest they should build a moveable roof over the course, just in case. I'm sure it'll only cost a few thousand
Why not play proper night golf and put some glow sticks out to line the fairway and use glow in the dark balls?
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You really think I'm the one who first started the bottler narrative?! Away from this forum it's a common opinion. I don't like or dislike him
Mel Smooth
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Id say 20, 30 max for those three holes - to complete the flagship event of a tour valued at 15 Billion dollars, on time.
Lets remind ourselves wha floodlit golf looks like.
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The premise of floodlit playoffs etc is fine, but you'd have to make the event a day night affair I think, as opposed to having floodlights on standby on the off chance of a long day with a play off
Arthur Wedge
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So how do you logistically work it to get enough light for the 16th , 17th and 18th
It’s fine doing in Riyadh where it’s just desert and the night sky is bright and there is little amount of fans in the way
How do you light up Sawgrass
wjemather
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This is sport for entertainment and thousands of ordinary people have paid a lot of money to be there on Sunday to see someone win the trophy, not to mention sponsors and broadcasters - if there is a way of getting it done on the day, they should do it. After all, they've driven cars up to the greens at tournaments (even majors) before now in order to get them finished on the day.
If any tour venue could and should have permanent floodlights, particularly on the closing holes, it's the Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass.
Also, if the PGA Tour had floodlights on the last few holes every week, they would also virtually eliminate the weekly shambles of not getting everyone round the course on the first two days.
If any tour venue could and should have permanent floodlights, particularly on the closing holes, it's the Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass.
Also, if the PGA Tour had floodlights on the last few holes every week, they would also virtually eliminate the weekly shambles of not getting everyone round the course on the first two days.
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With floodlights
same as anywhere else. Making it light enough isn't the issue.
Arthur Wedge
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With floodlights
Where does the floodlight go - in the middle of the lake
Arthur Wedge
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It’s amazing how people suddenly think floodlights is the answer for one off issues when there has a been an event recently with floodlights
Im just shocked it wasn’t thought off before
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You're just being silly. It's FLOOD light as in it floods the area with light. Not a light you use when there is a flood.Where does the floodlight go - in the middle of the lake
You know this.
Arthur Wedge
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Umm yes im aware and believe you are missing the point
The green is surrounded by water
Where are you putting the lights on the course to enable enough light to go across to a green in the middle of a lake and around tees that are surrounded by stands with very little area to move
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Maybe someone can invent a post they could be put on top ofUmm yes im aware and believe you are missing the point
The green is surrounded by water
Where are you putting the lights on the course to enable enough light to go across to a green in the middle of a lake and around tees that are surrounded by stands with very little area to move
By all means discuss the merits of floodlit golf, but pretending you can't light up sawgrass with modern floodlight tech is just making you look silly.
Arthur Wedge
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Maybe someone can invent a post they could be put on top of
By all means discuss the merits of floodlit golf, but pretending you can't light up sawgrass with modern floodlight tech is just making you look silly.
I can only guess you haven’t seen the make up of the 16th green , 17th tee and green to see how little space there is to shove some pilons down to ensure there is enough light without compromising the viewing for the spectators - it’s far feom easy
There is a reason why when ever there is any sort of floodlighting put down it’s in wide open spaces with little impact - The LIV event a perfect example - loads of space with lots of desert wasteland and very little footfall
Different ball game at Sawgrass
It’s not practical for an event that’s had one Monday finished in 30/40 years
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As it happens I have seen it and you can too with Google maps.
Pylons
They're lights mate , not 400k power cables. I'm not suggesting it's a great idea , but the lighting would be the easy part.WorldHandicapSystem
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Like I said. It’s ok for lower tier events and resorts courses.
But, it looks crap, there is no way to hide that fact, it’s also almost impossible to get decent uniformity and with the mobile units there would be an awful lot of generators running to power them. That would sound great!
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Are we all ready 