What's the state of your greens currently?

[Kennysarmy]

Ours are very very poor, last week, the first week of August they did green maintenance!!!

They are slow, look dry and have large "rings" on them.

It's very disappointing when you're paying over £1300 a year!

How are everyone else's greens?

 

[RichA]

Current club that I'm about to leave - very good. Way better than any other aspect of the course.
Old club that I'm considering rejoining - absolute show. They weren't given enough water when it was really hot and dry. There are now brown, earthy patches covering about a third of each green where it looks like the roots might have actually died. It's really sad because the whole course was in tremendous nick a couple of months ago.

 

[nickjdavis]

Largely pretty good, quite quick and smooth...though there are a small handful that have some dry brown patches. No complaints given the desert like conditions down here in the south east...even though we have irrigation, supplied by own own lakes, we are restricted as to how much we can draw from them.

 

[Neilds]

Superb at the moment, new greens team doing great things around the course and greens are best they have been in the 5 years I have been at the club.

 

[Imurg]

About as good as I've seen them in the 5+ years I've been a member..
A pleasure to putt on

 

[Robin Hood]

I thought ours were good until I played on a neighbouring course yesterday.
Theirs were fabulous - overall there course was better in every aspect to mine - and that included the catering too.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

Outstanding right now - timed perfectly for club champs and invitational and all the big comps

Course maintenance starts Monday

 

[Billysboots]

Excellent. But maintenance starts Monday so it may be a while before we can say that again.

 

[upsidedown]

Renovated last Monday and putting pretty well today, 10 days will be mint again

 

[Mandofred]

Both clubs....lovely. My putting....pathetic. Time for a putter change.......

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Ours are the best I've ever seen them, spot on. It took them a while to reach this point this year, some bumps along the way, but they genuinely can't be questioned right now.

It seems that it is more difficult to maintain good greens year after year now. Whether it's the restrictions on chemicals, fertilizer etc, I don't know, but even well renowned clubs struggle every so often now. @clubchamp98 what are your thoughts on this?

 

[jim8flog]

Excellent.

We held the South West Boys Open this and the comments from the players generally was very good. Some thought they were a bit slow (I would agree) but many would have come from links and top quality courses like Wentworth.

Just a few weeks to go to summer renovation now, scheduled for 2nd week of Sept.

The rest of the course is another discussion we only have had about 4 hours of rain in 3 months and we cannot abstract enough water for the fairways as well the greens and tees.

 

[Springveldt]

Disappointing would be an understatement. For a course that usually has great greens they have been very, very poor since April/May time. They actually tined them nearly 2 weeks ago now as they thought they couldn't wait any longer and they will be doing smaller tining next month again.

Today was the first time I could say I've seen an improvement in them since May, they are still being left long on purpose (someone said they were 4mm, not sure what length greens normally are) but they were rolling nicely today and although not fast they weren't as slow as they have been. I think by the time invitation day comes around at the end of the month I might actually be not embarrassed about inviting someone.

 

[Bunkermagnet]

OUrs are the best Ive seen since I joined (about 18 yrs now)
Freen maintenance has already been done, which is normal now. It seems early green maintenance brings better and quicker recovery

 

[Orikoru]

Ours have been absolutely superb all year. They did work on them this week though, so today they were hole-punched and sandy instead.

 

[D-S]

Ours have been excellent since the Spring.

Our fairways are really good, showing theforesight of the club 30 years ago of putting in fairway watering and drilling boreholes. It was little used in the first 15 or so years, it has been used a great deal since.

 

[rulefan]

Ours are brilliant. Never seen them cut to 3mm before. The Head Greenkeeper is very comfortable with this.
Fortunately we have our own artesian well and and a water extraction licence from the adjacent river (suspended temporarily).

 

[Backache]

Ours were truly horrendous and diseased over winter.
The recovery process was very long indeed, however they are now very good and a pleasure to play on.

 

[Voyager EMH]

Currently in the best condition that I've played on this year.

Hollow tining and sanding starts Monday.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

I wonder if every club is the same , the greens hit their peak , members love them , then the maintenance happens and members then moan like made about the greens being ripped up - it’s like a yearyl cycle