Tempory greens,do you bother?

[pokerjoke]

Our greens are currently being hollow tined,and now we are on temps.
What do you do when your course is on temps.
I tend to hit my tee shot,and my second if its worth hitting,and i dont putt.
Also we have our second Ecleptic round on Saturday and were back on full greens,but what a nightmare for putting.
Also the Howdidido final round,so thats messed it right up.

 

[Imurg]

In the nearly 3 years I've been a member at APGC I've yet to play on temps. They have been out occasionally but not when I've been playing.
Previously, I've played as long as the course has been open. This Winter, I'm not going to bother if the ground's frozen and to be honest, that's the only time I can see the temps being used.

 

[Dodger]

Why on earth are you on temps?

When ours were done you may have been on a temp for 20 minutes while they do it but once the green is done you are back on it.

 

[Marko77]

Our greens are currently being hollow tined,and now we are on temps.
What do you do when your course is on temps.
I tend to hit my tee shot,and my second if its worth hitting,and i dont putt.
Also we have our second Ecleptic round on Saturday and were back on full greens,but what a nightmare for putting.
Also the Howdidido final round,so thats messed it right up.

Similar position to us. Just have to get on with it or you get dubbed unreasonable I find.

Don't know what's so unreasonable about wanting work to wait until the fixture list has been fulfilled.

About the winter greens. Tend to just play against the mates on them rather than any actual comps so can pick up when out of the hole anyway.

 

[CMAC]

we never have 'winter tees or Greens', never heard of this temp green, is this an English thing or a scared greenkeeper thing

 

[pokerjoke]

Im sure its more of an english thing,due to our unpredictable weather.
Our greens take weeks too come good again after this treatment.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

We only go on if its frosty to "protect the greens". Judging by the mess they are in with moss we'd be better off just playing on them but chances are we'll be back to trying to stop balls on a rock hard piece of fairway. I usually give it a miss and figure hitting the practice ground or range is time better spent

 

[Dodger]

Im sure its more of an english thing,due to our unpredictable weather.
Our greens take weeks too come good again after this treatment.

If your weather is unpredictable then feck knows what you would class ours as!

 

[pokerjoke]

Im sure its more of an english thing,due to our unpredictable weather.
Our greens take weeks too come good again after this treatment.

If your weather is unpredictable then feck knows what you would class ours as!

Yours is predictable wet or wetter

 

[Dodger]

Not in the east,the west yes but in the east it's wind and windier.

 

[Timh27]

I dont bother unless i'm playing mates for money. Saying that we only play for our kids piggie banks anyway so not sure it's worth the pain.

 

[NWJocko]

Only played last winter and was on full tee's and greens all the way through.

I noticed at the weekend they're starting to cut a couple of temps on the front 9. No surprise really as they've almost "lost" the greens on the front 9, god knows how!! They're absolutely horrendous, yet the back 9 are OK??

 

[pokerjoke]

To be honest i think as our club is a municipal there is more wear and tear,
The course is never closed unless waterlogged.
Also the greens are not the best,last year they had a disease that took months to recover.
Temps imo are a waste of time,however they are usually just short of the real greens,so you ca still have a drive and a chip.

 

[Tommo21]

This rips my knitting big time. Years ago temp greens were few and far between, now it's all over the place. I’m now convinced that some green keepers do this to make their job easier and it also seems to be a fashion more than real need. I’ve asked some of the old guys and they can remember the green keeper brushing snow off the greens to allow people to play. We also get tees that are too far forward even when the full greens are on, so you end up with more people hitting the greens and more pitch marks. Golfers pay for a course of say 6200 yards, setting the tees that gives you 5800 is not any good IMO.

I think golf courses are for the members not for the green staff to protect for everyone to look at and admire. Temp greens at this time is a joke, even after coring.

 

[sweatysock41]

Only ever had one temp green at our place and that was when they laid a new green. Have several temporary tees in the winter though, some of them are ridiculous. The winter tees that are not mats are often cut in a cleared area of rough.

 

[CMAC]

Years ago temp greens were few and far between, now it's all over the place. I’m now convinced that some green keepers do this to make their job easier and it also seems to be a fashion more than real need.

exactly! How many top courses have winter tees and/or Greens? and they have immaculate carpets come summer. The ONLY reason not to go on them is for frost.

 

[cheezburga]

One or two of our greens tend to hold water so get a bit soft if there's a lot of rain in winter. So we get some temps on the front fringe from time to time. But as our fringes tend to be better than plenty of ploughed fields that some people call greens, its not too bad. They are slow - but true. And it does keep our softer greens in darn good nick for when they start to dry. So keep playing - why not?

 

[Region3]

Normal tees and greens for us all year round. The only difference is yellows only from mid October to the end of March.

 

[chris661]

Normal tees and greens for us all year round. The only difference is yellows only from mid October to the end of March.

Same as that only if it is frosty will the use temps, but stay on different tees all year too. Only concession is placing comes into effect soon.