US open style rough

[Andy808]

Our widest fairway is only around 40 yards wide with a few yards of rough then your in the trees where the rough is so deep you can lose young kids ib it. It's always like that until the club championship has been played then it gets cut. I don't mind itnand adjust my game to suit the conditions, sometimes!

 

[brendy]

Dare I say it, learn to hit it straighter or use a different club?

 

[Crow]

My course is great, there are soem deep areas but most of these are way off line.

In the general rough you can normally find your ball if you're within 10 feet of it and usually advance it towards the hole with anyhting between 20 to 80% of your nornal distance depending on the lie.

We have a lot of visitors so this is a must.

 

[USER1999]

Dare I say it, learn to hit it straighter or use a different club?

Sure, I can knock it round with a 7i, but it's not much fun.

I do hit it pretty straight, but some times straight isn't enough. Any way, you only need one bad drive out of 14, and it's game over.

You must play pretty awesome golf if all your drives are perfect!

 

[chellie]

It's ridiculous at ours although noticed last night they have cut some areas of it back but not much. Everyone seems to be moaning about it including the low handicappers we know before anyone says it's only the high handicappers.

 

[tyke]

Played in an AM/AM yesterday at Worksop GC, the course was brutal, the rough was just unplayable, around 2 feet in length and very thick, this with the lightning fast greens made for me it the toughest round of my golfing career

 

[triple_bogey]

St Annes Old Link's rough is notorious at the moment. Its taking the fun out of playing there. Many times, I've hit one down the middle only for a unfortunate bounce off the rock hard fairways to jump straight into the rough and not able to find my ball.

 

[Fader]

Our course is a joke at the moment, the rough is a good 3-4feet in some places and its only just off the straight and narrow. First round of club champs yesterday and only 3people broke 80 and they only did that by 1 shot, because even balls that trickled in were lost. Its easy to say hit a club that keeps it in play but when fairways are baked you can't help it running or bouncing into the bundu, and in some places there isn't a 1st cut its fairway then straight to tiger country.

I think the average was 4 lost balls per player, lots of players having their worst ever comp scores and even more choosing not to tee it up today in the final round because of the set up. We'll be lucky to have 20 people play the final round today as a result because there really is only 3 people with a shot at it. Most that do go out like me will only be doing so for pride of trying to show they can still play this game

 

[MashieNiblick]

I wouldn't say the 2 foot high stuff is really US Open style. In my mind that is the very thick 6 inch stuff. What we are having is more like the "Carnastie" stuff. Much worse in my view as often you can neither see the ball nor hit it.

We have some large swathes of this. Some of it quite close to the fairway. Looks lovely especialy the stuff with the purply flower heads and gives the course great definition but it is deadly and with a bit of wind it is in play more than you think. It's the main reason our CSS has been above SSS for most of the recent medals and why there are so many NR's.

However to offer a different perspective maybe we should just accept that accuracy is a part of the game (shock horror!) and sometimes courses will be set up, or due to the weather will end up, so as to favour that element of the game, just as at other times they play long and favour the bombers.

Posted by a short hitter with 70% fairways hit this year.

 

[CMAC]

its been wet, its now warm, grass grows thickly in the heat and the middle of summer, it's not new

You just need the right technique and you'll get it out, it's there to penalise. Now work on hitting more fairways

 

[Imurg]

You just need the right technique and you'll get it out,

As long as you can find it....

 

[markgs]

My course is the same really stupid if you ask me just slows play down