What one change would you make at your club?

[Bdill93]

Committees/ club politics aside...

What would you change about your club/ course/ clubhouse if you could only change one thing?

For me - Id improve on the woeful practice green area, at present there is almost no point in using our practice green, its nothing like our actual greens and there is no space at all for chipping/ bunker practice.

Just feel like id spend more time actually doing useful practice if the option was available to me!

 

[Lord Tyrion]

I would take 30yds, minimum off every par 3. They are currently, off the whites, 171, 212, 187, 197, 161. They would be far better holes if shortened, every one of them.

 

[Slab]

I'd like them to stop changing the tee markers. On several holes you've no idea which teeing area the markers will be on from one round to the next
(at times it makes a significant change to the tee shot &/or how the hole plays)

 

[IanM]

Have some drawn events!

Everyone plays in the same group with minimal variation.

It's boring and integrating new members who join on their own doesn't happen.

 

[Bdill93]

I would take 30yds, minimum off every par 3. They are currently, off the whites, 171, 212, 187, 197, 161. They would be far better holes if shortened, every one of them.

Yeah they're a bit long! Think our longest plays about 160!

 

[Bdill93]

Have some drawn events!

Everyone plays in the same group with minimal variation.

It's boring and integrating new members who join on their own doesn't happen.

I think drawn is the best way to go! Every comp at our club is drawn!

 

[ntommo]

I would take 30yds, minimum off every par 3. They are currently, off the whites, 171, 212, 187, 197, 161. They would be far better holes if shortened, every one of them.

Yep agreed with that, some of the best par 3s ive played have been about 120 to 130 with good protection around them

 

[Deleted member 29109]

Impossible to pick just one.

But I’d have to go with making the green staff work full time.

 

[SteveW86]

Yep, Id go for drawn comps every week.

 

[Bdill93]

Impossible to pick just one.

But I’d have to go with making the green staff work full time.

That's what makes it fun! Id change almost every hole and build a huge lake if I could add more

 

[Deleted member 29109]

That's what makes it fun! Id change almost every hole and build a huge lake if I could add more

I could list quite a few.

 

[Depreston]

Yeah same with our practice area 3 greens all poor standard … it would be nice to get one similar to on the course

 

[Bdill93]

I could list quite a few.

Give me the biggest!

 

[Depreston]

I think drawn is the best way to go! Every comp at our club is drawn!

I like how ours is done board comps drawn but the medals aren’t

 

[ntommo]

Improved drainage and irrigation systems

 

[sweaty sock]

Just cut more grass, make it tidy, have tighter chipping and fringe areas on holes rather than 3 inch rough 2 inches from edge of every green...

 

[Bdill93]

Yeah same with our practice area 3 greens all poor standard … it would be nice to get one similar to on the course

At least you have 3! Our 1 is the size of about 2 land drovers side by side....

 

[jamielaing]

There's an underground stream at our place. In exactly the landing area of the two holes it runs under. Open it up and turn one simple hole into one with a decision. The other hole is a long par 4. I'd extend it to a par 5 with the stream coming into play for second shots for a lot of players.

We also have a par 3 that is 230 always straight into a wind. That needs shortened our extended.

 

[Buckles01]

Our 1st hole is 193 off the whites over a ravine so hitting the green is a must and to complicate matters it’s a 3 tiered green, a twitchy tee shot with no warm up. 4th is 190 plus with ponds to the left and right of the green

 

[Deleted member 29109]

Give me the biggest!

It would be the green keepers. For H&S reasons they don’t work much past 8:30 in the morning and very rarely work on the course when the course is open.

They are forever starting new projects that don’t get finished. Everything is done to a, just about good enough standard, when it wouldn’t be difficult to finish things to a very high standard.

The holes seem to only be moved once or twice a week at most.

I could go on.