Tined greens already?

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I played in a corporate golf day on Friday and was looking forward to it until I reached the first green, hollow tined and dusted with sand.... Gutted, although we still played reasonably well and our team won the top prize and both nearest the pin prizes, the amount of putts that came up short or bounced around the hole were in the majority.
Still can understand why their course (decent private members club in Greater Belfast) has this done so early in the year, in comparison our place usually does it around the last week of September/first week of October and they will have recovered within a couple/few weeks.
Has anyone else seen their course/any course done yet this year?
 
Ours starts mid sept and they are usually back to good nick in a couple of weeks as there is still plenty of time left in the growing season when done that early. We used to do them a month later and it never really gave them time to recover properly.
 
Ours were done all last week just before the biggest 2-day comp of the season :confused: also, none of the holes/pins had been moved since last Wednesday :eek: What's that all about!
 
Im sure there was a thread a few weeks ago where most peoples clubs were doing it in anticipation for a rainy spell after the long dry spell we had.
 
brendy said:
I played in a corporate golf day on Friday and was looking forward to it until I reached the first green, hollow tined and dusted with sand.... Gutted, although we still played reasonably well and our team won the top prize and both nearest the pin prizes, the amount of putts that came up short or bounced around the hole were in the majority.
Still can understand why their course (decent private members club in Greater Belfast) has this done so early in the year, in comparison our place usually does it around the last week of September/first week of October and they will have recovered within a couple/few weeks.
Has anyone else seen their course/any course done yet this year?
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Think yourself lucky!!!!

Here's a picture of our 6th

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Not the best picture, but our 6th green and 15th have been completely lifted, new footings and drainage added and top soil added. Our courses greens suffer badly with thatch so once they get wet they take ages to dry making winter golf problematic.

They've decided all greens over the next 2 seasons will be lifted and have this work carry out.

At least you have proper greens to put on :D
 
Ours were done last week, it's about when its the best time to do it not the inconvenience to players. This, the second of the year, was done with te small tines and you couldn't notice them today
 
Gareth said:
Think yourself lucky!!!!

Here's a picture of our 6th

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Not the best picture, but our 6th green and 15th have been completely lifted, new footings and drainage added and top soil added. Our courses greens suffer badly with thatch so once they get wet they take ages to dry making winter golf problematic.

They've decided all greens over the next 2 seasons will be lifted and have this work carry out.

At least you have proper greens to put on :D
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Needs must eh :/ take it they put you a winter green on?
 
Played on Friday, ours had been scarified and sanded, bloody nightmare, I've never had so many three putts as they were lightening fast on some holes and dead on others, also very uneven, ball jumping everywhere. I've never seen our greens so bad, but I've only been a member for 11 months. The putting was starting to get into my head by the end of the round, but I'll just use the greens as an excuse and right-off that particular round. It's our open next week so I assume they've timed the maintenance in time to get the greens correct for that event. To be fair our course is kept in great condition and I can't praise the green keeper(s) highly enough, whatever they decide is best for the course is fine by me and I trust their judgement.
 
Down in Monaghan for a couple of days and had planned to go play Concra Wood on Tuesday, was on their site to book a time and they have hollow tining planned for Tuesday so giving it a miss. As much as I want to play the place I'm not paying good money to play on greens that have just been done.
 
I suppose quality of equipment helps,
This is how I would expect tining to look.
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this is closer to how they were..
Some holes were filled, some werent and the sand wasnt very uniformly spread causing the ball to jump, deviate and stop abruptly.
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Not a massive deasl I suppose, I guess their greens will be spot on again in a couple of weeks time. If it had been our club there would have been uproar as out scratch cup and club champs are over the next couple of weeks.
 
At least you guys have greens, the rooks have pecked all ours to pieces, 10x worse than tined and we have to play on them week in week out!
 
our greens are hollow tined the day after the medals final, mid sept. last year it seemed too late for a good recovery, but one thing about our head green keeper,he knows exactly what hes doing,and does it well, leave him too it.
 
Its pitch marks that have been doing my head in recently. Our greens are gorgeous, but inconsiderate people not fixing them does ruin them. Even if you cant figure out which is yours, repairing one or two on your travels will only help.
 
The rooks have been at ours too some real holes on the greens and one has moles right on the fringe too.

Guessing the tinning is coming soon, last year the grounds keeps did not really bother filling the holes with sand and some of the greens suffered for a good few months
 
Spark. said:
Needs must eh :/ take it they put you a winter green on?
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Yep we're on a temp green. Our 8th and 17th were done earlier in the year and we've been on a temp there too. Those greens reopen next weekend so only the 2 temps then.

To be fair they're not bad to putt on. Just a tad small :mad:
 
Fish said:
Ours were done all last week just before the biggest 2-day comp of the season :confused: also, none of the holes/pins had been moved since last Wednesday :eek: What's that all about!
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Now that really does indicate a lack of communication!

It took 2 years, but I eventually persuaded the Greenkeepers at an old course to schedule their maintenance after, rather than before 1st weekend which was the comp one.
 
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