What are your greens like?

[user2010]

Getting there..........finally.:thup:
Had a lot of work done on them to remove sub surface thatch and the like with a Graden machine, verti-cutting, hollow tining, the lot!
Should be right on the ball when the Invitation Day comes around in June. Fingers crossed.:clap:

 

[pendodave]

Ours are just coming round. It's been incredibly dry and pretty chilly for months, so they have struggled to recover from routine work performed at the start of the season. In fact last week's rain has transformed the whole course.

Played cromer and sheringham a couple of weeks ago and their greens were fantastic.

 

[srixon 1]

Ours are really good and have been for a couple of months. I wish I could make my lawn the same.

 

[Coffey]

Played quite a few courses in my area recently and our greens are the best I have played on. Very fast and true. The greens keepers have also said they are the best they have ever had them. Our course is known for have brilliant greens though. It is quite a short course so the greens are hilly and quick and the flags are placed in the worst possible positions!

 

[jim8flog]

Given the fact that we had no rain for over 6 weeks, very good for the conditions, a bit slow but consistent from green to green. We have over 800 members, the course is very rarely closed and we only go to temps in extreme conditions.

The last two weeks the greens have come on tremendously following a brief spell of warmth and a couple of days of rain.

 

[Owen_Thomas_14]

Out of 10 I would say ours are about 7/10. Our Championship Qualifier is at the start of June so will be 10/10 for then, always are 😀

 

[BrizoH71]

Slow and bumpy, they were better during the winter!

 

[Val]

Amazing what a week of heat and a few days of rain have done. Ours looked good yesterday

 

[Imurg]

Last time I was there (Thursday) they were quite soft and fairly slow due to the deluge of rain. We had a load more Friday and Saturday too. But with the warmth that's now here, the growth should really kick in, the greens should firm up and be running well.
Probably not back there until next Friday so hoping for a pleasant surprise..
They're still better than Aylesbury Park's..👍😂

 

[Deleted Member 1156]

Ours are coming on fantastically well. We went through a very painful process last year of changing the type of grass and they were shocking all year but it is really starting to pay off now. I played there yesterday for the first time in a couple of weeks and there is now a really good smooth even coverage of new grass and the greens are putting really well.

 

[Karl102]

Ours are good and true. THey generally get cut and ironed on a Friday before the weekend comps. With the warm and wet weather they are genuinely a lot slower on the Thursday.

 

[Green Bay Hacker]

Pretty good at the moment. We had a disease on them a couple of years ago and last summer there were quite a few bare patches on them. They have now recovered and are pretty quick. Our biggest danger is losing them during long dry periods as we are unable to get enough water on some of the holes due to an on going problem with the water pressure.

 

[cliveb]

We do protect ours during the winter and don't play on them if they are frosty or very wet and although people moan it has certainly paid off for the season.

The need to protect greens in winter might be a myth. We always used to do that, and routinely had lots of temporaries in play. But for the last couple of years we've experimented with leaving the greens in play throughout the winter and it hasn't done them any harm.

The only exception now is if they are so frozen that balls ping off like concrete - in which case there are four holes where such a bounce would launch the ball onto a road or into a neighbour's back garden, so we have temporaries there purely for safety.

 

[HawkeyeMS]

Ours are great

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Best I've seen. Had the Jamega Tour last week and not one pro had a problem and many said they were the best they'd seen

 

[tombomb]

greens are much better now we have had a bit of rain

 

[Capella]

Ours are really nice at the moment. They plan to aerigate and sand them today, though, so it will be a painfull one or two weeks until they run smooth again after that.

 

[Crazyface]

Ours are crap
Atrocious

+1 for ours. They used to be the best in the county. There's no way I'm shelling out for next years subs. I think I'll have a year off from being a member anywhere and decide where to go after that.

 

[Crazyface]

Also, load of piggin' work done and still rubbish. Hollow tined and top dressed with that soil muck. Never understood that? Take soil out, put soil back? A member licked off at our AGM three years ago and said the old greenkeeper used to use sand and they were immaculate. Out GK took the hit and used sand and guess what? They were immaculate. Went back to loam soil muck...now rubbish again. I'd sack them tomorrow.....no TODAY!

 

[Deleted Member 1156]

Crazyface, I love your posts, you really are Mr Angry of Cheshire