Repairing terrible greens

[3-off-the-tee]

This is very reminiscent of a course I used to play which over the years just got worse and worse before inevitably closing.
The course was relatively new but was built on an old pit area and suffered massively with drainage issues, when it was wet it was like playing in a bog.

The last time I played it they knocked us a fiver off the green fee before we teed off almost to apologise for what was to come.
The rough hadn’t been mowed at all, the fairways were long, dry greens with weeds coming through and hardly any grass on them. Some of the flags were only 2-3 feet high and looked like they had been taken from a football pitch. There was even a burnt out car at the side of one of the tee boxes.

I think it shut down a few months later if memory serves me right. A right mess.

 

[KenL]

I would start looking for another club if they are that bad.

 

[jim8flog]

There are times when even the good courses suffer
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So many chemicals that have been used in the past to help maintain good greens have now been banned

In recent times ours have suffered from fusarium. New chemical kills every living thing, there are reports of pets dying where people have use them on their own lawns.

Damage from birds pecking out the chafer grubs (chemical killer for the grubs banned) we are resorting to manual methods to get rid of the grubs.

We now have dollar spot on a couple of the greens which may well have been caused by the usual early season maintenance not having been done.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I would start looking for another club if they are that bad.

Agreed. I have played some courses where the greens have been abysmal. If I was a member and the greens had got to that state and the club weren't capable of paying for work done to fix the watering it would set alarm bells ringing and I'd be reluctant to invest too much more in terms of subs. If the practice green hasn't improved it doesn't sound as though their plan is working although we did have that bout of exceptionally hot weather and then heavy rain last week